Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.453

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    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.453
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.453
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.453
    • Wellcome Library, MS.453
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    • 1 volume; 15 leaves (last 2 blank). folio. 231/2 X 20 cm. On vellum, original sheepskin binding over wooden boards, bosses and clasps wanting: rebacked. Parchment. Written in a clear gothic hand, 27 lines to a page. Illuminated initial with marginal floreations on the first leaf, and on the lower margin emblazoned coat of arms [unidentified]. 26 other initials painted in colours with ornamental marginal decorations.

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    1. ff. 1r-13r Bonfacius de Lupis, Founder's Will of the Hospital at Florence, extract

    Title: 'Ordinamenta et instituta egregii militis domini Bonifacii de Lupis, Marchionis Soraniae pro eius hospitale de Florentia'

    Incipit: 'Cum ego Bonifacius de Lupis de Parma Soranie marchio huius hospitalis conditor...'

    Explicit: '...uel omni alio iure quo melius ualere poterint. et hoc per yesum christum dominum nostrum. Amen'.

    There are a few marginal annotations, in Latin and Italian, by various 15th cent. hands. The MS. is a copy of the relevant part of the Founder's Will relating to the Hospital at Florence, which was opened in 1387.

  • From the Charles Fairfax Murray Library.
  • Purchased at Sotheby's 18/7/1919, Lot 86.

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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).

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