294 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves, 14 pages : frontispiece (portrait), plate ; (8vo)
2 illustrations (frontispiece is Beckett's portrait, same he uses on another medical tract / second is an allegorical, personification of surgery with a table of…
Sig. [asterisk]7 has catchword for sig. A3. The preliminary matter (sig. [asterisk]2-8 and A1-4) consists of the dedication "to Ambrose, Earle of Warwicke," the author's…
Manuscript X 188 in the National Library of Sweden dates to around 1425--35 and contains two works by John Arderne (active 1307--70), an abridged version of De arte phisicali et de cirurgia (Of the physical arts and surgery) and Fistula in ano. Also…