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Source des données : Wellcome Collection - Online Collections

• Large ornamentatal initials in blue and red with marginal decorations, other capitals in red and blue, blue and red, red and purple, with marginal decorations: paragraph marks in alternate blue and red: heading in red .Probably of French provenance. A foliation in pencil has been added . Fol.1 (in upper margin, red) L[iber]. 1. The[odorici]. [U]Enerabili pa/tri et amico Ka/rissimo egregio/uirodomino. a. eposcopo/ualentinensi frater thederi/cus... 1v, col. 1, line 23 (Text begins) Cause solutionis/continuitatis seu/uulnerum... 96v, col. 1, line 33 ...et super ignem mala/xanda magdalilones in forma et usui reserua. Explicit thedericus. qui scrip/sit sit benedictus. (red) alia sublimatione arsenice./NOta sublimationem arsenici que fuit/facta in monte pressulano... col. 2 ...li/mature cupri. xii, turonenses eris usti. vi. tu/ronenses sal quod sufficit. There are a few marginal notes by different 14th and 15th century hands. One on fol.75v gives a receipt against gout 'per magistrum Johannem de Cociaco'. (i.e. Jean de Coucy [ -1363]).
• The Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada Europeo-Americana Vol. 60. 1928 s.v. 'TEODORICO el Catalan', claims that the real Author of the 'Chirurgia' and other works was a Catalan Dominican monk and physician who died in 1276. This theory seems to be based on an entry in Quetif and Echard's Scriptores Ordinis Predicatorum 719-1721, Vol. 1, p. 354. The suggestion is rejected by Tiraboschi in his Storia della letteratura Italiana 1806, Vol. IV, Part 1, p. 235. The Catalan theory has been repeated by Hans Karl in his 'Thédore et sa chirurgie' in Bull. de la Soc. Fran. d'Hist. de las Médecine 1929, Vol. 23, pp. 140-183: but is considered to be unproved by Sarton in his Introduction ot the History of Science 1931, Vol. 11, Part. 2, p. 655. It has been strongly denied by Davide Giordano in two articles in the Rivista di Storia delle Scienze Mediche 1930, pp. 3-22, 133-137. Until perhaps a complete examinatin of the earliest extant MSS. can be made, the traditional attaribution to the Italian Theodoricus, Bishop of Cervia, would seem to be correct. First printed (with the 'Chirurgia' of Guy de Chauliac) at Venice in 1498.
• Large armorial Ex-libris of [Barthélemy] A[chille] Kühnholtz Lordat.
• Purchased 1931.