Royal MS 12 C XIV

'LIBER CYRURGIE MAIORIS editus Parisius per magistrum Lanfrancum de Mediolano': the Chirurgia maior, or Practica, of Lanfranc of Milan, a work dated in other copies in 1296. Five books, with preface and table of contents. Printed in Cyrurgia Guidonis de Gauliaco, &c., Venice, 1498, 1546. The epilogue containing the date is here absent. Preface beg. 'Protector in ipso sperancium deus'; text, 'Omne quod uolumus inuestigare'. The fly-leaf (f. i) is from a commentary on Aristotle's Sophistiei Elenchi, in a very minute 13th cent. hand. At the foot of f. 1 b are ten 'versus compositi de Rogero Belers', a satire, in Latin and English mixed, on Sir Roger Belers [Baron of the Exchequer, murdered 1326]. Beg. 'Miles Rogerus by ten mile wons he to neer us. Omnibus austerus fuerat, quod scit bene clerus'. On the margin of f. 2 b are eight verses on the temperaments (cf. 12 B. XII, art. 87), beg. 'Largus, amans', &c.

Vellum ; ff. i + 80. 9¹/₂ in. x 6¹/₂ in. Early XIV cent. Sec. fol. capituio illius,. Initials in red. Belonged (f. 1) to [John, Lord] Lumley. Lumley cat. f. 391; cat. of 1666, f. 20; CMA. 8512.