La ciroxia vulgarmente fata Chirurgia De natura balneorum De balneis viterbiensibus De balneis Sancti Cassiani et aliis De venenis De lapide Begaar De arte cognoscendi venena De epidemia et peste
Layout: Gatherings of 10 leaves (but the 6th gathering of 8 leaves and the 7th of 16 leaves), catchwords written towards the gutter of the quire’s last page. 2 columns of 34 lines, with faint ruling in ink and single bounding lines on ff. 1-144; thereafter with 39 leaves in dry point by board. Layout: 39 long lines, ruled in dry point Script: Gothic Script: Cursive gothic Decoration: On f. 1, 8-line historiated initial in blue, lined along its inside in orange and then in yellow and the whole set on a squared gold ground, enclosing the waist-length figure of Guglielmo da Saliceto, dressed in red robes, who holds a book; quite damaged Decoration: Sprays in the inner and upper margins of green and pink acanthus leaves and rayed gold dots. Painted initials, 7-line (ff. 4v, 50v, 91, 118v, 131v) in red, lined on the inside in yellow, and enclosing a spray of acanthus in blue and green on a pink ground; the whole set on a squared gold ground, and with extensions of green acanthus leaves and rayed gold dots. Decoration: Alternating red and blue initials, 3-line, with penwork flourishing in red on the blue initials and in purple on the red initials. Alternating red and blue paragraph marks. Decoration: 2-line initials, paragraph marks and rubrics in red Binding: Bound, s. XIX, in purple calf. Signed (by the first scribe in this Part, although written at the end of the second scribe’s work): f. 301v, “Iste liber est mei Ghabrielis quem ego scripsi anno domini 1469.” Number of scribes: 2: i, ff. 155-290; ii, ff. 291v-302v Provenance: Owned in the 15th century by a man or even a child given the uncertain handwriting in the upper margin of f. 42, “Questo libro e di domenicho.” By the end of the century, the book belonged to someone named "Ghabriele" who states that he was the copyist: on f. 301v: "Iste liber est mei, Ghabrielis, quem ego scripsi anno domini 1469." Provenance: By the early 19th century, the book was owned by the abbot Pietro Dini from Pistoia (his ownership note on f. 152; cf. an exchange of letters between him and Luigi M. Rezzi in the 1820s, as cited by Luigi Chiappelli, Vita e opera giuridiche di Cino da Pistoia, Pistoia 1881, p. 22, fn. 1). Provenance: Over-written by heavily inked letters “P,” an ownership inscription on f. 1, possibly reading “Di Santa Maria Nuova” (of Florence?), and another illegible crossed-out ex libris. Provenance: Belonged to the Roman historian of mathematics, Baldassare Boncompagni-Ludovisi (1821-1894), and listed in his two catalogues: Enrico Narducci, Catalogo di manoscritti ora posseduti da D. Baldassare Boncompagni (Rome, 1862) pp. 151-152 at n. 332; and Enrico Narducci, Catalogo di manoscritti ora posseduti da D. Baldassare Boncompagni, 2nd ed., (Rome, 1892) pp. 65-66 at n. 102. Provenance: Auction of the Boncompagni collection: Catalogo della Biblioteca Boncompagni. I. Manoscritti, Facsimili, Edizioni del Secolo XV, Abbachi, Riviste. Auzione nei giorni 27 gennaio-12 febbraio, 1898 ... (Rome, 1898), this manuscript as lot 79. Provenance: Acquired by the New York Academy of Medicine before the publication of De Ricci’s Census in 1935-1937 (for the two volumes listing the mss; the index was printed in 1940). Gothic book hand with teardrop letter a, uncial letter d, letter g as a closed number 8, letter r always straight (not rounded in the 2 shape), the letter z written as a cedilla’d c. Foliation in ink in early modern arabic numerals, placed in the very uppermost right corner of the recto, and enclosed within an L-shaped “box.” "This version of the Italian translation is printed in: Guilelmus de Saliceto, La ciroxia vulgarmente fata [Brescia: Boninus de Boninis de Ragusia], 1486; ISTC is00028000; no scanned copies of this incunable are listed in the ISTC, but a scanned copy of the microfilm of the first four pages is available on Gallica at http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb372439252 Damage from water obscures the initial rubric and incipit: [f. 1:] Incomincia <?> maestro <?pla>centia <?> conporre uno Libro di manual operatione accio che lla satisfactione risponda alla quisitione de conpagni miei . . . [f. 1v, rubric:] Della diffinitione di cirugia et delle admonitioni necessarie e utili agli operatori e astanti e agl’infermi Rubrica. [f. 1v, text:] La cirugia e scientia che insegnia il modo e la qualita dello operare nella carne, nervo e ossa dell’uomo manualmente . . . See, for example, Ars Chirurgica Guidonis Cauliaci medici . . . his accesserunt Rogerii ac Gulielmi saliceti chirurgiae . . . (Venice: Giunta, 1546) with the Chirurgia of Guglielmo da Saliceto on ff. 303-361v. Prefatory materials to this text: [f. 156, rubric:] Incipit cirurgia magistri guillelmi parmensis. Incipiunt capitula primi libri guillelmi parmensis. [chapter list, incipit:] Capitulum primum de aqua congregata in capitibus puerorum noviter natorum. Capitulum secundum de crusta vel scabie in capitibus puerorum et in frontibus lactantium et vocatur lactumen a laycis . . . Written by Francesco di Bartolomeo Casini of Siena (1340/1346-1416), although his name was always cited in his day as Franciscus de Senis; this text seems to have been composed between 1398 and 1404, while Francesco was in the service of Malatesta di Pandolfo Malatesta (1370-1429), lord of Pesaro, to whom the work is dedicated. See Didier Boisseuil, Marilyn Nicoud, and Laurence Moulinier, “Il De balneis di Francesco da Siena, un [sic] sguardo sul termalismo italiano all’inizio del Quattrocento,”[a draft?; online; dated September 2012]; they point out that the text depends upon the work of Gentile da Foligno and on another (not yet recognized) version. The authors report a second manuscript of this text is Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Lat. 1295, ff. 117-118v. The Digital Scriptorium is very grateful to Boisseuil, Nicoud and Moulinier, without whose work this effort would have been much poorer. For the edition of this text, its translation into Italian and a full set of photographs, see Luca Salvatelli “Il De Balneis Viterbiensibus: un opuscolo medico-terapeutico sulle acque termali di Viterbo del XIV Secolo,” in Medical Manuscript Studies 2 (March 2016) 1-20. The only other copy known of this text is Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magl. XV.7.189, ff. 36-39, dating from the 18th century. See, for example, Petrus de Abano, Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et medicorum; De venenis (Mantua: Johannes Vurster and Thomas Septemcastrensis, for Ludovicus Carmelita, 1472), in the online copy held by Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; the present text, De venenis, is on ff. 101-107 (=images 358-364 verso); ISTC ip00431000. Archana medicinae [Geneva: Jean Belot], [about 1505] as the final chapter (chapt. 84) in Petrus de Abano, De venenis, f. 56r-v; ISTC ia00947000; images 117-118 (of 154) on the website of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See, for example, online, Arnaldus de Villanova, Opera (Lyon: François Fradin, 1504) ff. 264v -265 (images 567-568 of 838). See, for example, online, Tractatus magistri Arnaldi de Villa Nova de arte cognoscendi venena cum Valasco de Taranta, De epidemia et peste [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck or Wendelinus de Wila, about 1475-76], f. 4; ISTC ia01070000; image 11 (of 36) in the scanned copy belonging to the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston MA. Scribal colophon written by the first scribe of this second Part, although the colophon follows the second scribe’s work. See, for example, Arnoldus de Villa Nova, De arte cognoscendi venena; Valascus de Tarenta, De epidemia et peste; Petrus de Abano, De venenis eorumque remediis; Matthaeus Silvaticus, De lapide begaar ex pandectis (Manuta: [Johannes Vurster], 1473, and in particular images 4-16 of the copy held by Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; ISTC ia01065900. 5 medical recipes, the first “ad consolidandum omnia” and the others “ad restringendum menstruum”; added in a later hand.
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