Layout: 2 columns of 36 lines, ruled in brown lead (?). Script: Anglicana Decoration: On f. 1, remains of a border partially visible where the initial was cut away. On f. 52, gold initial and half border. Throughout, 5- and 2-line initials in blue with red penwork. Binding: Bound, s. XVIIIex, in tree-calf; gilt. Provenance: On f. 1, signature of a possible owner, “Drummond”; on f. 36v, the name “Garfield.” Provenance: Owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his MS 9418. Provenance: Purchased by Friends of the Rare Book Room of the New York Academy of Medicine in 1955 from W. H. Robinson, Ltd., London. Prof. Paul Acker dates this manuscript to ca. 1425. Anonymous treatise based on the first book of Guy de Chauliac, Chirurgia magna in English translation, but interpolated; see Björn Wallner, An Interpolated Middle English Version of the Anatomy of Guy de Chauliac, 2 vols. (Lund, 1995-1996); see eVK 365 (electronicVoigtsKurtz, available on the website of the Medieval Academy of America). Known in 4 other mss: Glasgow, University Library, Hunter 95 (T.4.12), ff. 36-75v; London, British Library, Sloane 2463, ff. 2-51v; London, British Library, Sloane 3486, ff. 58-81; Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bod. 1468, pp. 7-54. Anonymous, Book of Operacioun (so called in its colophon), possibly the first book of a treatise that finishes with the antidotary (as described below, item 4), deriving from Guy de Chauliac and Henri de Mondeville, and containing ca. 122 recipes; see eVK 2196 for the prologue to this work and eVK 7160 for the text. Known in 3 other mss: Glasgow, University Library, Hunter 95 (T.4.12), ff. 85-159v; London, British Library, Sloane 2463, ff. 51v-151v; London, British Library, Sloane 3486, ff. 18v-57v. On f. 151r-v, medical recipes. Antidotary which may be the second book of the treatise termed here, the Book of Operacioun, copied above as n. 2, and containing ca. 120 recipes; see eVK 7190, cited above. Known in 4 other mss: Glasgow, University Library, Hunter 95 (T.4.12), f. 157 and forward; Glasgow University Library, Hunter 513 (V.8.16), ff. 36v-86v; London, British Library, Sloane 2463, f. 153v-188v; Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 1468, pp. 139-167. Some 45 medical recipes, arranged for the head downwards; see eVK 3807. The “Quod marchall” statement at the end of the text usually signals the scribe, but if so, it is not in the hand of the Cambridge physician, Roger Marchall studied by Linda Voigts (see Bibliography above). Some 10 recipes; see eVK 5244. Two other known mss: Glasgow, University Library, Hunter 95 (T.4.12), f. 187v; London, British Library, Sloane 3486, f. 18r-v. It appears that leaves are missing between f. 188 and f. 189. See Edurne Garrido-Anes, “Manuscript Relations through Form and Content in the Middle English Circa Instans,” Selim 13 (2005-2006) 201-226; Garrido-Anes lists the 27 copies in ME divided into 3 sets according to their translation (with 25 of the witnesses associated in a single group) This NYAM ms included in a subgroup with two other mss: Cambridge, University Library, Kk.6.33, III, f. 12r-v; London, British Library, Sloane 71, ff. 86-109v; these mss list their contents across the width of the page or of the column; NYAM MS 13 in the table on p. 223. See eVK 0862. Recipe to make “suger roset”; see eVK 4821.
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