London, British Library, MS Sloane 1977

Sloane Medical Collection Facsimile Edition

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The Sloane Medical Collection is a luxuriously illustrated manuscript produced in France, probably Amiens, at the beginning of the fourteenth century. The book is a compilation of scientific and medical texts, including Rogerro Frugardo's Chirurgia and the Circa instans by Matthaeus Platearius. The twenty full-page and five smaller miniatures are painted in saturated pigments, primarily red and blue, with details in gold. The images are principally on medical subjects, including surgeries and illness symptoms, but some Christian narrative scenes are also present.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Sloane Medical Collection": La Chirurgie facsimile edition, published by Editions Medicina Rara, 1980

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Manuscript book description compiled by Britt Boler Hunter.
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La Chirurgie

Stuttgart: Editions Medicina Rara, 1980

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  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Sloane Medical Collection: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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