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Described de Ricci, Census, p. 1313; Wallner (1964), p. vii. See Edward Clark Streeter, ‘A Fourteenth Century English Manuscript of Guy de Chauliac’, The Proceedings of the Charaka Club 4 (1916), 107–111, with facsimiles of ff. 1 and 51v between pp. 110–111. Decorated with illuminated initials and full borders; reproduction of illustration of surgical instruments from f. 164v in Driver and Orr, Index, p. 161, fig. 1. There is a complete colour facsimile of the MS on the Academy website.

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f. 1a

Forsoþe after þat i haue first done louynges or thankinges vnto god giffyng boþe perpetuale life of soules & helþe of bodies & leching grete sikenesses by þe grace whiche he haþ profered to alle flesh id est to euerych man of uertues conseruyng id est keping helþe & defending fro langore i sykenesse …

f. 181va–181vb

… now is tyme for to ende þis sermone in praying or biseching to hym þat haþ gouerned me in shipping or sailyng in it in drawing vp þe anker in heuenly ioye he sette lele & trewe sowlez which he fouchesaf for to graunt to me and to alle þe rederez þe silfe blissed god that | liueþ and regneþ in worldes of worldes amen.

‘Þe inuentorie or þe collectorye in cirurgicale parte of medicene compiled and complete in þe ȝere of oure lord 1363 by guydonem id est gy de caulhiaco cyrurgien maister in medicene id est doctor of phisic in þe ful clere studie of montis pessulani id est mountpelers with som addicions of oþer doctourez necessary to þe foresaid art or crafte’; translation (Version 1) of Guy de Chauliac's Chirurgia magna or Inventarium seu Collectorium in Parte Cyrurgicali Medicine. Manual 10:3831 [251], eVK 1959 (prologue), 1878 (text). Partially edited from this MS by Björn Wallner, 1964 (Bk I), 1969 (Bk V), 1976 (III, text), 1979 (Bk III, notes), 1982 (Bk IV, text), 1983 (Bk IV, notes), 1988 (Bk II), i.e. all but Books VI and VII.

Other Version 1 texts: BL Sloane 1, ff. 1–312v; Sloane 965, ff. 24–106v; Sloane 3666, ff. 2–157; and New Haven, Yale Beinecke Library, Takamiya 59, ff. 1–153v. The former leaf 106 from this MS (the opening leaf of Book VI) is now in BL Harley 5915, as fragment 25.