Medical notebook on medicine and surgery

Description

Title: Medical notebook on medicine and surgery
Alternative Title: Medical notebook ; in his autograph (Italian and Latin)
Creator: Vecchi, Otto, fl. 1600
Published / Created: between 1596 and 1604.
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Autograph manuscript, on paper, containing a collection of texts on medicine and surgery. Includes: an index (front flyleaf recto), an unidentified medical text: A malis curis et a falsis (front flleaf verso), "Mens hominis discedendo alitur" (f. 1), a text on surgery: dicatur primo quid est chirurgia (ff. 2r-3v), Descriptions in Latin and Itailan of illnesses and presriptions for their cure (ff. 4r-71v), treatise on the science of medicine (ff. 72r-80r), index, prescriptions, and other notes (ff. 81-105).
Description: In Latin and Italian.
Title devised by cataloger.
Script: italic cursive.
Layout: single column of around 20 lines.
Binding: bound in a fourteenth-century vellum sheet of music (missal or antiphonary).
Author signs on f. 70 and ff. 72-80.
Dated on f. 37: September 1596, and f. 83: January 15th, 1604.
Provenance: Is believed to have been owned formerly by Belmont Abbey, in Herefordshire. Purchased by Yale Med in 1959 from C. & I.K. Fletcher, Ltd., London.
Extent: 1 item (105 leaves) : 201 mm x 135 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian
Latin

Genre: Early material to 1800
Early works to 1800
Authors' autographs
Manuscript waste
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Topic): Surgery
Manuscripts, Medical
Medicine
Practice
Manuscripts
Medicine, Medieval
Subjects: Surgery > Early material to 1800
Manuscripts, Medical > Early works to 1800
Medicine > Practice > Early works to 1800
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval > Early works to 1800
Belmont Abbey (Hereford, England) > Ownership

Access: Public
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