William of Congenis, Chirurgia

Date:
Early 15th Century
Reference:
MS.799
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Description

William of Congenis, Chirurgia, abridged, and translated into English.

Contents

ff. 1r-23v William of Congenis, Chirurgia, abridged, and translated into English.

f. 1r Here may thou lerne [...] surgerie that William of Conke ... f. 1v ... tanseye. hempcroppe. ana. then tak of madir. ana. and stampe hem alle ... f. 23v ... and bere wermod aboute thee in thi bosum or in thi breche: that day thau ne schalt not chaufen. ffor the boon out of ioynt. drawn hem. and serve as thou doist oper ioyntes. Here have I endid a good tretice of maister William Comkes makyng: thatt her prevede in his worchyng.

2. f. 23v Receipt for 'Unguentum bawme'.

3. ff. 24r-26r Medical receipts in Latin, by two mid-16th century hands.

Publication/Creation

Early 15th Century

Physical description

1 volume 26 ll. 8vo. 21 x 14 cm. Unbound in half-morocco slip case. Three leaves are wanting after fol. 14 and one after fol. 17: the lower margin of fol. 21 is partly torn away, and a piece has been lost from the top outer corner of fol. 1. The text of fol. 1r is so badly rubbed as to be practically illegible. Written in a neat gothic book hands, 34 lines to a page. Initials in blue, paragraph marks in alternate blue and red: marginal chapter numbers and colophon in red.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1922.

Biographical note

This work appears to be complete except from the middle of Chapter xviii of Book II: to the middle of Chapter iv of Book IV, and from the middle of Chapter xix to the middle of Chapter xxiii of Books IV. It seems to be a collection of the receipts from the 'Chirurgia' of William of Congenis, and differs greatly from the full text printed by Sudhoff Chirurgie im Mittelalter, 1918, Part 2, pp. 297-384, though the order of subjects is much the same. Inserted are three slips, two in pencil, and one signed 'D.A.P. 18/11/1922', by Sir D'Arcy Power referring to the MS. with notes on the contents. Also a slip from an anonymous member of the B.M. staff, who mentions that there is a later copy of this Ms., Sloane 2273, in the British Museum.

Finding aids

Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see 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).

Ownership note

Written across the upper margins of ff. 23v-24r: Anno 1549 Ffrancysci Langtonis codex factus sum ante pro erratis.

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  • 41911