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• Practica ad utilitatem volentium medicinali scientia opus practice acquirire virtuosum. Written in a clear North Italian gothic by several scribes, 25 lines to a page: the Indices in double column. A few ornamental capitals in red and blue with marginal decorations, other initials in alternate red and blue. Leaf 1, col. 1 (first index), begins: Prima de simplicibus... 4v, col. 1...Septima de emplastris...Sunt ergo tractatus totius huius libri 27. / ET partes omnium tractatuum sunt 58. / (4v col. 1). Et particule sunt 25. Omnium partium / Et omnia simplicia libri huius sunt 2291. / Et capitula omnia sunt 336. 5, Senatores. Saluia. Serpullum...(Last line)...Turbit Zinziber. Zedoara. 5v, col. 1 (second index), Tractatus primus habet duas partes principales / Prima est de simplicibus magis conferentibus egritudinibus cerebri.... The end of this Index is found on leaf 260v. 8, (Text begins) est quod eis propter euacuationes uti confortatiuis et maxime electuario /... This is about the middle of Tractatus I, Particula 6. 8v, line 10 Septima particula est de medicinis compositis ad epilexiam /... 259v, line 24 ...Et ibi / compleatur practica virtuosa compilata camerini. 260 A magistro Bartholo petri magistri de d$n [dominio?] cerna [terna?]: / Sub anno Domini 1296. Ad utilitatem volentium me / dicinali scientia opus practice acquirere virtuosum. Illi ergo qui / michi dedit gratiam componendi regratietur cum sit largitor / omnium gratiarum Et benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen. 260v, col. 2 The end of the second Index is a verbatim repetition of the end of the first Index at fol. 4, col. 2. 261, (Note on 'Frenesis') Begins: Frenesis est apostema calidum nascens in parte anterioris cerebri/... 261v Ends: ...quae curari / possunt et cum quibus potissime sufficiant dicta. 262, Blank 262v, Medical receipt, containing Valerian, but partly illegible. Produced in Camerino.
• Invozio has not been identified, but there is a Commune of Valduggia in Piedmont, north-west of Novara: the name of Bozolonus seems to be equally unknown. No record of Petri nor of this work has been traced. It is a very substantial treatise, as shown by the details of its contents given at the end of each Index (fol. 4v and fol. 260v), and is perhaps mainly of pharmacological interest, though it deals also extensively with general medical practice, pathology, diagnosis, hygiene, etc., with particular attention to materia medica and the properties and uses of every kind of medicinal substance, methods of preparation, treatment, and application.
• There are marginal notes by several contemporary and later hands including a few by a 16th century owner (ll. 4v, 77v, 78, 79, 91). In the first of these he has written: 'Hunc librum possedit Jacobinus / Bozolonus chyrurgus de Invozio / Vallis Ugie deo optimo maximo / concedente.' An anonymous 18th century owner has written on the first fly-leaf a version of another inscription by Bozolonus, now lost: 'MS Compendium Medicinae / per Jacobinus Bozolonus / chyrurgus de Invotio vallis ugie / deo Optimo Maximo Concedente / 14 kal. septembris / MDLV.Invozio has not been identified, but there is a Commune of Valduggia in Piedmont, north-west of Novara: the name of Bozolonus seems to be equally unknown. No record of Petri nor of this work has been traced. It is a very substantial treatise, as shown by the details of its contents given at the end of each Index (fol. 4v and fol. 260v), and is perhaps mainly of pharmacological interest, though it deals also extensively with general medical practice, pathology, diagnosis, hygiene, etc., with particular attention to materia medica and the properties and uses of every kind of medicinal substance, methods of preparation, treatment, and application.
• Purchased 1971.