Cirogia vulgare. Ricettario. Antidotarium vulgare

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Title: Cirogia vulgare. Ricettario. Antidotarium vulgare
Alternative Title: Chirurgia vulgare : followed by a ricettario, and antidotarium vulgare
Creator: Rolandus, Parmensis, active 1264
Published / Created: between 1300 and 1350.
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript, in parchment, in unidentified hand, containing Rolandus of Parma's Cirogia vulgare (ff. 1-65). Followed by an anonymous list of medical recipes and antidotes. Imperfect: many sections of the list of antidotes censored with black ink. Folio 104 almost completely torn away; its verso and extra vellum leaf at end have manuscript notes on astrology, in a later hand
Description: In Italian.
First title from title heading, other titles assigned by cataloger.
Script: southern gothic textualis.
Decoration: headings in red ink and rubrication throughout.
Layout: double column of 24 lines.
Binding: vellum binding with spinal title: Cirogia vulgare / MS. XIV. Saec.
Also available on microfilm.
Provenance: Ex libris of A. Bernardes de Oliveira ("Art is man's nature; Nature is God's art"). Armorial bookplate of Harvey Cushing, bequest of 1939. Description based upon dealer's catalog (H.P. Kraus, Rare Books and Manuscripts) dated 4 June 1965; quoted within are De Ricci's Census and Sarton's Introduction to the History of Science.
Extent: 1 item (104 + i leaves) : 180 mm x 130 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Early works to 1800
Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Medical formularies
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Topic): Antidotes
Surgery, Medieval
Materia medica
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine
Manuscripts
Traditional medicine
Recipes
Subjects: Antidotes > Early works to 1800
Surgery, Medieval > Early works to 1800
Materia medica > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval > Early works to 1800
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Traditional medicine > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions > Early works to 1800
Recipes > Early works to 1800
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 > Bookplate
Oliveira, A. Bernardes de (Antônio Bernardes), 1901-1981 > Bookplate

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