Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.287

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Other label of the document :
- London. Wellcome Collection, MS.287
- London. Wellcome Library, MS.287
- Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.287
- Wellcome Library, MS.287
Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
Date of Origin :
- Late 14th Century (Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections)
Composition :
- 1 volume; 52 leaves folio. 291/2 x 20 cm. On vellum, buckram binding by E. Watson of Paddington St. Some leaves slightly stained.

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IIIF Manifest

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Epitome of the 'Methodus medendi' books III VII. (Incomplete). Illuminated initial on Fol. 1 in gold and colours with marginal floreated decorations, containing a miniature, slightly rubbed, of a physician operating on the head of a seated patient and two assistants standing by. Written in double column of 39 lines to a column, in an Italian gothic book-hand. Other capitals and paragraph marks in alternate blue and red: headings in red.
p.1, col. 1 (red) Incipit liber tercius de ingenio/sanitatis. ad laudem dei./[S]ICUT/OP/ER/AND/I SIG/NIFI/CATI/ONES/NERO Carissime Ab essentia nature/morbi conuenit considerari..p.104, col. 2 [Capitulum xv, Libri VII.] In cucurbitis forciata apua absinthii./From leaf 33 to the end, the leaves are palimpsest, and there are traces of an earlier script-possibly of the 13th cent. These include lists of office-holders in an unknown Italian city. On p.68 is a heading in red 'Ad of[f]icium Jurarie', and on p.77, also in red, 'Ad of[f]icium lignagii'.
Autograph of 'J. Hilton 1880' inside cover.
Purchased at Sotheby's 6/11/1933, Lot 318.

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Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).