Medical notebook on medicine and surgeryVecchi, Otto, fl. 1600between 1596 and 1604.italatAutograph 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).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.