I'm not going to tell you what they were used for. But anesthetic procedures were crude, so you felt the cut.
This manuscript of the 13th or 14th century is among more than 30 extant according to Monica H Green's count in 2011.
It seems the book was read by non-doctors too, as indicated by the luxury colors in this copy. She adds: "Whereas other surgical texts circulated quite widely in western Europe, up until the fifteenth century Albucasis's work was copied only in Italy and, to a lesser extent, in southern France." See too an earlier article online by David Trotter on the Latin mss.
In the past week, 112 manuscripts came online. The Vatican Library's newsletter adds some good news, indicating the digitization program remains open-ended.
The Japan-based company which is the main funder of the project, NTT Data, previously told media its support was limited to 3,000 manuscripts up to 2019, but the December newsletter says Katsuichi Sonoda, an NTT Data VP, offered November 30 to continue the collaboration with the Library “indefinitely”. Sounds great!
- Ross.47,
- Ross.60,
- Ross.67 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Ross.71,
- Ross.83,
- Ross.86.pt.2,
- Ross.102 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Ross.104,
- Ross.132 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Ross.133,
- Ross.134,
- Ross.139 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Ross.148 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Ross.166,
- Ross.169,
- Ross.200,
- Ross.205 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Ross.221,
- Ross.229 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Ross.233,
- Ross.250 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Ross.256,
- Ross.267,
- Ross.270 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Ross.271 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.2389,
- Vat.lat.2392, eTK incipit: Gerard of Cremona translations of Arabic medical works, and the De cibariis attributed to Petrus de Musanda
- Vat.lat.2403, eTK incipit: Desideranti tibi scribi a me mysteria lapidum omnium
- Vat.lat.2408,
- Vat.lat.2431,
- Vat.lat.2440,
- Vat.lat.2445.pt.2,
- Vat.lat.2445.pt.3,
- Vat.lat.2465, Jacobus de Forlivio, on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates; see Jordanus
- Vat.lat.2478,
- Vat.lat.3219 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.3367,
- Vat.lat.3369,
- Vat.lat.4020,
- Vat.lat.4021,
- Vat.lat.4022,
- Vat.lat.4083, eTK incipit: Interrogatio nobilis viri domini Uberti marchionis; (Gerard of Cremona)
- Vat.lat.4098 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.4112.pt.2,
- Vat.lat.4251,
- Vat.lat.4276,
- Vat.lat.4347 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.4368,
- Vat.lat.4375,
- Vat.lat.4379,
- Vat.lat.4389 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.4403,
- Vat.lat.4404,
- Vat.lat.4405,
- Vat.lat.4408
- Vat.lat.4420, eTK incipit: Non solum cum scripserunt rememoratores;
- Vat.lat.4421,
- Vat.lat.4422, eTK incipit: Cum natura non minus indigeat aquis fisicalibus (14c); John of Parma
- Vat.lat.4428, Avicenna's Terra Pura and other works; eTK incipit: Corpora mineralia in quatuor dividuntur
- Vat.lat.4432, eTK incipits: Quia sentire quidem (early 14th century); De virtutibus naturalibus
- Vat.lat.4434, Jacobus de Forlivio, De intentione et remissione formarum, see Jordanus
- Vat.lat.4436,
- Vat.lat.4441,
- Vat.lat.4448, Antonius de Scarparia, 14th century Italian physician, on Galen's Ars Parva, with a diagram discussed by John Murdoch's Album of Science showing the continuum by latitudes from completely well (at top) to completely sick (below):
- Vat.lat.4451 (Upgraded to HQ), medical etc, Thadeus of Florence and others, eTK incipit: Impossibile est eundem incipere et finire (14th century)
- Vat.lat.4454 (Upgraded to HQ), eTK incipit: Averroes in commento xv de animalibus sicut illa; See also Jordanus
- Vat.lat.4455 (Upgraded to HQ), Jordanus, Arithmetic. See Jordanus database. eTK incipit: Convenerunt in hoc antiqui; by Petrus Hispanus
- Vat.lat.4457,
- Vat.lat.4463,
- Vat.lat.4464, eTK incipit: Consuevit dubitari de titulo huius libri; by Dino del Garbo
- Vat.lat.4467, Abulcasis/Albucasis (above)
Chirurgia [opus Albucasis; translatio ex arabico], Gerhardus Cremonensis (1114 - 1187) ff. 1r-32r; De locis affectis, Galenus, ff. 33r-59v (translatio anonyma). #surgery #medicine
— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) December 18, 2018
Vat. Lat. 4467 (14th cent.) among the #LatestDigitizedManuscripts 👨⚕️💉🔪https://t.co/jMWdZXaiby pic.twitter.com/yoLJsN1str
What a great present for @EgoConstantinus's obit day. Sure, the al-Zahrawi/Abulcasis part of @DigitaVaticana Vat. lat. 4467 is fascinating, but check out what follows it: Constantine's translation of Galen's De interioribus!
— (@EgoConstantinus) - Vat.lat.4469,
- Vat.lat.4470,
- Vat.lat.4471,
- Vat.lat.4473,
- Vat.lat.4474,
- Vat.lat.4475 (Upgraded to HQ), eTK incipit: Sciendum est quod humores quidam sunt in capite (13c-14c); also: De limphis oculorum qui dicitur paralymenon
- Vat.lat.4477, eTK incipit: Cum omne corpus animatum; Glossulae aphorismorum Hippocratis
- Vat.lat.4478, eTK incipit: Celi enarrant gloriam dei triplici via aq modo mirabili celi; author Jean Ganivet
- Vat.lat.4483,
- Vat.lat.4485,
- Vat.lat.4487,
- Vat.lat.4490 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.4493 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.4494,
- Vat.lat.4495,
- Vat.lat.4496,
- Vat.lat.4498 (Upgraded to HQ), Frontinus, Seneca and other classical authors, see Jordanus
- Vat.lat.4502 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.4503, So even when the phone didn't exist people used to doodle the same way we do when we're on the phone...— Digita Vaticana (@DigitaVaticana) December 20, 2018
Vat. lat. 4503 among the #LatestDigitizedManuscripts ☎✍🏻 https://t.co/Ck3OQgyYFr pic.twitter.com/sbkxS6oi1u - Vat.lat.4504,
- Vat.lat.4505,
- Vat.lat.4506,
- Vat.lat.4507,
- Vat.lat.4509,
- Vat.lat.4513,
- Vat.lat.4514 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.4515,
- Vat.lat.4518,
- Vat.lat.4522 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.4523,
- Vat.lat.4524,
- Vat.lat.4526,
- Vat.lat.4527,
- Vat.lat.4528,
- Vat.lat.4529,
- Vat.lat.4530, Jamblichus, see Jordanus
- Vat.lat.4535,
- Vat.lat.4538, Richard Rufus of Cornwall's commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics now available @DigitaVaticana and found in the list by @JBPiggin.https://t.co/AQ7uGjH7a7 pic.twitter.com/JjRTbunbK4— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) December 22, 2018
- Vat.lat.4539, Bernelinus, Gerbert and others on arithmetic, see Jordanus. With this bull's eye by the Dennis the Menace of the Vatican rubber stamp:
- Vat.lat.5754.pt.A,
- Vat.lat.9055, This is Piggin's Unofficial List number 190. Thanks to @gundormr for harvesting. If you have corrections or additions, please use the comments box below. Follow me on Twitter (@JBPiggin) for news of more additions to DigiVatLib.