This the second of two volumes presenting a new Latin text of and commentary to the greatest of medieval surgical encyclopedias and identifying its thousands of references to earlier medical writings. They describe the surgical procedures available to the Middle Ages while providing a chrestomathy of the medical literature known and cited in medieval universities.

Michael R. McVaugh, Ph.D. (1965) in History (Princeton University) is Wiliam Smith Wells Professor of History at the University of North Carolina. He has published extensively on late medieval medicine, including Medicine Before the Plague (Cambridge, 1993).