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228 entries match Medieval [K01.400.500] · Europe & United Kingdom [Z01.542]
1996 CE
#9435
Medicine, society and faith in the ancient and medieval worlds.
2002 CE
#8879
Medieval herbal remedies. The old English herbarium and Anglo-Saxon medicine.
Edition and translation of the Old English Herbarium, British Library Cotton MS Vitellius C iii, the only illustrated Anglo-Saxon medical text, dating from about 1000 CE, containing information on 185 medicinal plants…
1981 CE
#6982
Medieval medicus. A social history of Anglo-Norman medicine.
Includes a directory of Anglo-Norman physicians.
1981 CE
#6981
Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and modern English translation by Beryl Rowland.
This 15th century manuscript (British Library Sloan 2463) predates by about a century The byrth of mankynde, previously considered the first work on the subject.
1975 CE
#9430
Mental disorder in earlier Britain: Exploratory studies.
1976 CE
#8962
Mittelalterliche Pharmazie und Medizin. Dargestellt an Geschichte und Inhalt des ANTIDOTARIUM NICOLAI
1962 CE
#6984
Nomina et virtutes balneorum; seu de balneis Puteolorum et Baiarum. Codex angelico 1474. Facsimile edition, introduction by Angela Daneu Lattanzi.
Written about in the early 13th century by the poet, chronicler and physician Peter of Eboli, the didactic poem, De balneis Putelolanis (The baths of Pozzuoli) was the first widely distributed medieval guidebook to me…
1973 CE
#8878
Obras médicas de Pedro Hispano. Edited by Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira.
1851 CE–1876 CE
#31
Oeuvres d’Oribase, texte grec, en grande partie inédit…traduit pour la première fois en français; par les Drs. Bussemaker et Daremberg. 6 vols.
Oribasius was a compiler of existing knowledge rather than an original writer. His output was immense; he compiled the Synagoge, an encyclopedic digest of medicine, hygiene, therapeutics, and surgery from Hippocrates …
1536 CE
#46
Omnia opera Ysaac in hoc volumini contenta: cum quibusdam alijs opusculis: Liber de definitionibus. Liber de elementis. Liber dietaru[m] vniversalium: cum co[m]me[n]to Petri Hispani. Liber dietarum particularium ... Liber de vrinis cum commento eiusdem. Liber de febribus. Pantechni decem libri theorices: et decem practices: cum tractatu de gradibus medicinarum Constantini. Viaticum Ysaac quod constantinus sibi attribuit. Liber de oculis Constantini. Liber des stomacho Constantini. Liber virtutum de simplici medicina Constantini. Compendium megatechni Galeni a Constantino compositum ; Cum tabula [et] repertorio omnium operum et questionum in co[m]mentis contentarum. Edited by Andreas Turinus.
Constantine was a Muslim from North Africa who converted to Christianity. His writings were first published with those of Isaac Judaeus in the above edition which includes many separate texts. Many of the writings of …
1975 CE–1988 CE
#8576
On the properties of things: John Trevisa's translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus De proprietatibus rerum: A critical text, edited by M. C. Seymour and Gabriel M. Liegey. 3 vols.
See also M. C. Seymour et alii, Bartholomaeus Anglicus and his encyclopedia (Aldershot, England: Variorum, 1992).
1975 CE
#8255
Opera medica omnia edenda curaverunt L. García-Ballester, J. A. Paniagua et M. R. McVaugh.
This is the first scholarly, critical edition of the collected works of Arnau de Vilanova. When I wrote this entry in December 2016 the ongoing editing publishing project was up to 17 vols. in 20, offered at the Unive…
1472 CE
#2192
Opera medica, sive Practica cum textu noni ad Almansorem.
A commentary on Rhazes with notes and additions. For bibliographical and other details regarding this, the first large medical book to be printed, see the essay by Arnold C. Klebs in: Essays on the history of medicine…
1526 CE
#11910
Passionarius Galeni (Galeni Pergamini passionarius) a doctis medicis multum desideratus; ægritudines a capite ad pedes usque complectens; in quinque libros particulares divisus, una cum febrium tractatu eorumque sintomatibus. Lege igitur, et in tibi mens hebes fuerit, eundem Galeni et non alterius, ut falso quidam credunt, esse perpendes.
Regarding Garioponto or Gariopontus see Florence Eliza Glaze, "Galen refashioned: Gariopontus in the Later Middle Ages and Reniassance," Textual healing: Essays on Medieval and early modern medicine, edited by Elizabe…
2015 CE
#9315
Peter of Spain, Questiones super libro De animalibus Aristotelis. Critical edition with introduction, edited by Francisca Navarro Sánchez.
1868 CE
#5558
Pfolspeundt: Buch der Bündth-Ertznei. Hrsg. von H. Haeser und A. Middeldorpf.
Although not printed until 1868, this treatise was written about 1460, and is the first work of the early German surgeons. Pfolspeundt was a Bavarian army surgeon; his book includes the first allusion to the extractio…
1841 CE
#8968
Physici et medici Graeci minores. Congressit, ad fidem codd. mss. praesertim eorum, quos beatus Diezius contulerat, veterumque editionum partim emendavit partim nunc prima vice edidit, commentariis criticis indicibusque tam rerum quam verborum instruxit. Edited by Julius Ludwig Ideler. 2 vols.
Includes texts of the following authors: Abitianus, Actuarius, Johannes, Alexander, of Aphrodisias, Andromachus (Senior), Apollonius, Dyscolus, 2nd cent, Archelaus (philosophus), Cassius (Iatrosophistes), Hermes, Tris…
1888 CE
#13059
Poëme sur la grande peste de 1348. Publié d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque du Palais Saint-Pierre par Georges Geigue.
The book indicates that 175 copies were printed "sur papier de Hollande." The editor describes himself as the archivist of the city of Lyon. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1990 CE
#8877
Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England: Introduction and texts.
1484 CE
#12651
Practica quae alias Philonium dicitur.
A general treatise on medical practice. ISTC No. iv00005800
1480 CE
#8369
Practica, seu Lilium medicinae.
Includes descriptions of plague, tuberculosis, scabies, epilepsy, anthrax, and leprosy. ISTC No. ib00447000.
1493 CE
#3666.84
Practica. IN: Liber nonus ad Almansorem (cum expositione Joannis Arculani). Ed: Hieronymus Surianus and Elyanorus Sanseverinus.
Arcolani's Practica, published in this edition of Rhazes with Arcolani's commentary, includes the first documentation for the use of gold for filling diseased teeth. There are also several chapters on diseases of the …
1984 CE
#11899
Professori e promotori di medicina nello studio di Padova dal 1405 al 1509: Repertorio bio-bibliografico.
2009 CE
#8555
Ps. Bartholomaeus Mini de Senis: Tractatus de herbis (Ms London, British Library, Egerton 747). A cura di Iolanda Ventura. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 05.
Bartholomaeus Mini de Senis, probably active in the 14th century, was the copyist of British Library Ms Egerton 747, Tractatus de herbis. The identity of the author of the original work, probably written a century ear…
1914 CE
#12670
Pseudogaleni in Hippocratis de septimanis commentarium ab Hunaino q. f. Arabice versum, ex codice monacensi primum edidit et Germanice vertit.
2003 CE
#8405
Psyche and soma: Physicians and metaphysicians on the mind-body problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment. Edited by John P. Wright and Paul Potter.
1483 CE
#6812
Regimen contra pestilentiam [English] Treatise on the Pestilence.
The earliest medical work printed in English. It was published without printer's name or date, but has been attributed to the press of William Machlinia, in London, and estimated to have been published in 1483."Althou…
c. 1477 CE–c. 1483 CE
#1959.3
Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (With commentary by [Pseudo-Arnoldus de Villa Nova]). Add: Arnoldus de Villa Nova: Regimen sanitatis ad regem Aragonum.
Probably originating about 1160, the Regimen sanitatis from the medical school at Salerno (where medicine was first treated as a separate science) had greater popular influence than virtually any other medieval medica…
1911 CE
#11114
Regimen sanitatis. The rule of health. A Gaelic medical manuscript of the early sixteenth century or perhaps older from the vade mecum of the famous Macbeaths physicians to the Lords of the Isles and the Kings of Scotland for several centuries.
Text reproduced in facsimile (15 leaves), transliteration and English translation. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1473 CE
#6316
Regiment der jungen Kinder.
This work has very little originality, being mainly derived from the Arabic physicians of 500 years before, but is noteworthy as being the first book on pediatrics printed in German. It includes what is probably the f…
1497 CE
#39.1
Rhazes: Liber ad Almansorem sive Tractatus medicinae I-X. Liber divisionum. De aegritudinibus juncturarum. De aegritudinibus puerorum. De secretis sive aphorismi. Antidotarium. De praeservatione ab aegritudine lapidis; Introductorium medicinae. De sectionibus et ventosis. Synonyma. De animalibus. Add:Tabula de herbis medicis; Maimonides: Aphorismi; Mesue (the elder): Aphorismi; Hippocrates: Secreta; Prognosticatio secundum lunam; Capsula eburnea; De humana natura; De aere et aqua et regionibus; De pharmaciis; De insomniis; Avenzohar: De cura lapidis.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
The best edition of the Opuscula of Rhazes, containing the second printing of the celebrated Liber ad Almansorem, not to be confused with Liber nonus ad Almansorem, as well as De aegritudine puerorum (No. 6313), and o…
1486 CE
#40
Rhazes: Liber Elhavi sive Ars medicinae. Translated by Feragius Salernitanus. Edited by Joannes Bugatus.
The Al-Hawi, or Continens, a great encyclopedia of medicine. The above first Latin translation by Feragius Salernitanus is the largest and heaviest of the medical incunabula. The original manuscript was in Arabic. IST…
1492 CE
#2191
Rosa anglica practica medicinae. Ed: Nicolaus Scyllacius.
The first printed medical book of an Englishman. John of Gaddesden was a prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral and physician to Edward II. The work, to quote Garrison, “consists mainly of Arabist quackeries a…
2014 CE
#10171
Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge.
2006 CE
#11062
Sex, aging, & death in a medieval medical compendium. Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52, its texts, language and scribe. Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina.
2013 CE
#8954
Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon. Edited by Barbara Zipser.
"Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon”, an edited volume based on the conference held on March 17th, 2012, is part of the Simon Online project – a dynamically growing Wiki edition of Simon of Genoa's Clavis sa…
2012 CE
#8955
Simon Online. Edited by Barbara Zipser.
http://www.simonofgenoa.org/index.php?title=Aims_of_the_project&oldid=12132 "Simon Online is a collaborative edition of Simon of Genoa's clavis sanationis, a medical dictionary from the late thirteenth century. More o…
1857 CE
#6518
Storia documentata della scuola medica di Salerno. 2nd. ed.
An account of the School was provided by P.O. Kristeller in Bull. Hist. Med., 1945, 17, 138-94. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1986 CE
#8549
Studi sulla Scuola medica salernitana.
1476 CE
#4204
Summa conservationis et curationis. Chirurgia.
![SALICETO, Guglielmo da [WILLIAM OF SALICETO] (1210 – 1277)](/media/portraits/6798)
Contains (Cap. cxl) his classic account of renal edema: De duritie in renibus, an English translation of which is in Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd ed., 1945, p. 527. ISTC no. is00032000.
1473 CE
#6788
Synonyma medicinae, seu clavis sanationis.
The first printed medical dictionary. It was originally published at Ferrara, 1471-2?, of which the only recorded copy is a fragment of 21 leaves in the Bodleian Library. ISTC No. is00526000. “The great work of …
1981 CE
#6524.4
Taddeo Alderotti and his pupils. Two generations of Italian medical learning.
2000 CE
#8525
The "Tabula antidotarii" of Armengaud Blaise and its Hebrew translation. Edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Lola Ferre. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 90, pt. 6.
2012 CE
#7409
The alphabet of Galen. Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. A critical edition of the Latin text with English translation and commentary by Nicholas Everett
ALPHABET OF GALEN
An edition and translation of Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 187, a late seventh or early eighth century codex, which represents the earliest surviving manuscript of the text. Not written by Galen of Perga…
1832 CE
#12667
The Aphorisms of Hippocrates, translated into Arabic by Honain ben Ishak, physician to the Caliph Motawukkul. [Edited from two MSS
2017 CE
#10752
The art and science of healing from antiquity to the Renaissance. Exhibition catalogue Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - University of Michigan Library 10 February - 30 April 2017.
Finely illustrated and annotated catalogue including objects and rare books and manuscripts collected by Le Roy Crummer, Lewis Stephen Pilcher, and Campbell Bonner. Until publication of this catalogue material in the …
1998 CE
#7152
The art of medicine: Medical teaching at the University of Paris, 1250-1400.
1959 CE
#12603
The baths of Pozzuoli. A study of the medieval illuminations of Peter of Eboli's poem
2016 CE
#9257
The culture of food in England 1200-1500.
1971 CE
#8364
The cyrurgie of Guy de Chauliac. I Text (E.E.T.S., 265) Edited by Margaret S. Ogden.
Middle English text of Guy de Chauliac's surgery.