The most excelent worckes of chirurgery made and set forth by Maister John Vigon,... / traunslated into Englishe. Whereunto is added an exposition of straunge termes and unknowen symples, belongynge unto the arte.

Accession number: 
PML 1829
Author: 
Vigo, Giovanni da, 1450?-1525.
Published: 
[London] : Imprinted by Edwarde Whytchurch..., 1550.
Description: 
[6], cclxx, [15] l. ; 30 cm
Notes: 

Collation: Leaf 1a = title within woodcut border; 1b blank; 2a-2b = Epistle to Richard Tracie; 3a-6b = table; ia-CClxxa text of nine books and abridgements; leaf CClxxb blank; Interpretation of Straunge Wordes, 15 unnumbered folios at end; the last a blank(?) wanting.
Dedicatory epistle of the translator Bartholomew Traheron (1510?-1588?) to Master Richard Tracie (d. 1569).
Foliation: the first 6 leaves unnumbered and the last 15; Roman numerals begin on signature A¹ with folio i and end with CClXX on signature Yy⁶. Many errors in foliation: XXi for 20; xli for 51; lxxi for 72; lxxxi for 82; xcii-xciii for 93-94; Cxii for 114; Cxx for 122; Cxxx for 131; Cxliiii for 138; Clxiii-cxli-Cxl for 143-4-5; Cxl for 150; Clxxvii for 176; Clxxxi for 180; Cxci for 188; CCiiii for 199; Cxcii for 202; CCx for 205; CCxxxiii for 230; CCxxxiii for 232; CCxxxvi for 239; CCxli for 242; CCxliv for 245; CCxli for 246; CClxiiii for 259; CClx for 261.
Second edition in English. First edition published in 1543.
Signatures: [dagger]⁶, A-Z⁶, Aa-Zz⁶, [seven]-[seven]⁶, [check]-[check]⁴, the last a blank? and wanting = 292 leaves; the whole of signature I bound between L¹-²; K³ missigned Kii, Aa⁴ is Aiiii, Bb² is Bii.
Translation by Bartholomew Traheron of Practica in arte chirurgica copiosa and Practica in arte chirurgica compendiosa, first published in Rome, 1514.

Binding: 
Old calf with portrait of Mary I; in dark blue morocco case, with initials P.M.
Provenance: 
The names of several early owners on flyleaf and t.p.: Richard Himmer, John Nye, Thomas Hickby.
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