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- Title
- Here biginneth the inventorie or the collectorye in cirurgicale parte of medicene compiled and complete in the yere of oure Lord
- Description
- An illuminated and illustrated manuscript of the Chirurgia magna, or great surgery, by Guy de Chauliac. Attempting in the Chirurgia to collect the best medical ideas of his time, he compiled sources from Arabic and Greek writers, including Rhazes, Avicenna, Hippocrates, Aristotle and others. Guy wrote the first text of the Chirurgia in Latin at Montpellier, in approximately 1363. This text was published in many editions and remained the authoritative text on surgery through the seventeenth century. It consists of 181 pages of English black letter in double columns and lines lightly ruled in red. It is ornately illuminated in gold and silver with finely decorated floral borders and large floriated initials, heightened with gold leaf. The manuscript includes 24 drawings of surgical instruments. The calf binding dates to Henry VIII’s reign or to the Elizabethan era. The original brass and leather clasps are engraved with stars and lion heads. There has been dispute about the manuscript’s date, with authorities dating it between the late 14th and second half of the 15th century. The manuscript was sold with the Streeter collection to the New York Academy of Medicine in 1928.
- Subjects (LC)
- Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Manuscripts, Medical illustration, Medicine, Medicine—History, Medicine, Medieval, Surgery—History, Surgical instruments and apparatus
- Title
- Bedside service of the American Library Association in the U.S. Debarkation Hospital No. 5
- Description
- Black-and-white postcard showing an interior view of Debarkation Hospital No. 5 in Manhattan. A librarian with a cart of books is seen next to a patient's bed. A patient in a wheelchair is in the foreground; other patients and a long row of beds are seen in the middle and background of the image. | Caption on right-hand side of front: "With her book truck the librarian brings to the man's bed the book he wants. The A.L.A. has placed libraries in 208 hospitals." An open request to mail magazines to hospitals is below. | Card not posted.
- Subjects (LC)
- Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York County, Debarkation Hospital No. 5 (New York, N.Y.), Military hospitals, Soldiers, Beds, Wheelchairs, Books, American Library Association, Librarians, Hospital libraries, War casualties, Reading, World War, 1914-1918, United States -- Army
- ID
- nycm_198
- Geographic Subject
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)