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Inventarium sive Chirurgia Magna. Vol. 1: Text, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh. Vol. 2: Commentary, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Margaret Ogden. 2 vols.

Publication Details

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997 CE.

Definitive edition of the medieval Latin text of Guy's Surgery from MS Vat. Palat. Lat. 1317, completed in Montpellier in 1373, only a decade after the text is thought to have been completed. The editors traced the more than 3000 references to older medical authorities in this encyclopedic work to their sources and discussed their use.

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Entry Number#12759
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/15005
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External URLinventarium-sive-chirurgia-magna-vol-1-text-edited-by-michael-r-mcvaugh-vol-2-

Geographic Context

Publication place: Leiden

Mentioned in annotation: Montpellier