Florence: Spedale di S. Giovanni Baptista

Original inventories of bedding, furniture, chapel fittings, etc. The upper part of the upper cover is painted black and white. The top half (black) has a painting of St. John the Baptist in brown and yellow, holding a scroll inscribed 'Ora Domino Deo Patre Omnipotente'. In the lower half (white) is the word 'Inventorio' with a large decorated initial. A number of leaves have been cut out from the middle of the volume. The MS. has been begun from both ends, and a pencilled foliation has been added. Fol. 2 Al nome di dio e della gloriosa Vergine Maria et del beato Santo giovanni battista / In questo libro scriuerro lonuentaro di tutte le masseritie sono nello spedale di santo gio / vanni batista di portatori di uia di san ghallo di firenze le quale sono queste qui scritte cioe / (col. 1) Venti quatro [struck through and 'due' superscribed] lettiere usate /... This list is undated, but in the second column is a reference to some additional items 'lasciate al detto spedale nel mille quatrocentro'. 3 Inventory for 1413. 4 Inventory for 1418. 4v Inventory for 1418 with additions for 1419, 1420. 5 Inventory for 1418 with additions for 1420, 1421. 5v Inventory for 1422. 6v Inventory for 1422 with additions for 1424. 7 Inventory for 1422 with additions for 1427. 8 Inventory for 1428. 8v Inventory for 1428 with additions for 1429. 9 Inventory for 1430. 9v Inventory for 1430 with additions for 1432, 1436, 1437. 10 Inventory for 1438. 10v Inventory for 1438 with additions for 1439, 1440, 1441, 1443, 1445, 1446. Beginning at the other end of the volume: Fol. 15v Copy of Inventory dated 1387 with the agreement as regards the 'guardiano' and his emoluments, etc. This may be a contemporary copy, but no signatures are inserted. Ff. 14, 13v Inventory for 1393. 13, 12v Inventory for 1398. 12 Inventory for 1398 with additions for 1400. Fol. 11v Note dated 1458 concerning the visit of an Archbishop and of his beneficence. Produced in Florence.

1387-1458

1 volume 16 ll. (first & last bl.). folio. 25 x 18 cm. On vellum. Original half leather binding over thick wooden boards, clasps wanting.

Purchased 1910.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).