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678 entries match Medieval [K01.400.500]
1474 CE
#5816
De oculis eorumque egritudinibus et curis.
The earliest printed book on ophthalmology. Grassi was the most celebrated ophthalmic surgeon of the Middle Ages. English translation by Casey A. Wood, 1929. ISTC No. ig00352000.
1487 CE
#1961
De particularibus diaetis.
The first separately printed treatise on diet was written by the Egyptian-Jewish physician and philosopher Isaac Judaeus who lived from about 832 to 932 CE. He was also known as Isaac Israeli ben Solomon and Abu Ya'qu…
1567 CE
#12711
De podagra libellus incerti auctoris e graeco in latinum conversus. [Edited and translated by Marcus Musurus]. IN: Medicae artis principes post Hippocratum et Galenum. Graeci Latinitate donati. 2 vols.
This Byzantine treatise on gout underwent several editions between the 16th and 18th centuries. The translator Musurus worked with Aldus Manutius in the preparation of several editiones principes. The translation, for…
1647 CE
#12808
De proprietatibus ac virtutibus medicis animalium, plantarum, ac gemmarum tractatus triplex. Auctore Habdarrahmano Asiutensi Aegyptio. Nunc primum ex Arabico idiomate Latinate donatus ab Abraham Ecchellensi Maronita, Syracae, & Arabicae linguae Christianissimi Regis intreprete, & earundem in Academia Parisensi professore. Ex MS. Codice biblothecae eminentissimi Cardinal Mazarini.
First Latin translation of a three-part pharmaceutical treatise on the properties and effects of medicines derived from animals, plants, and minerals, attributed to the medieval Egyptian polymath Abd Al-Rahman Al-Suyu…
1471 CE
#91
De proprietatibus rerum.
A condensed encyclopedia of what was then understood by natural science. The work was probably written about the middle of the 13th century. It was one of the most widely read scientific works of the Middle Ages. Caxt…
c. 1496 CE
#92
De proprietatibus rerum. English translation by John of Trevisa.
This English translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus was made by John of Trevisa in 1398. Bibliographically it is of interest as being one of the earliest books printed in London, one of the finest of the 15th century, …
1533 CE
#12591
De pulsuum scientia libellus utilis & necessarius. Theophili ... de exacta retrimentorum vesicae cognitione, commentariolus, Albano Torino interprete.
First separate, and perhaps the first complete printed edition of the Byzantine physician's De pulsibus, edited by Alban Thorer. This text, in the Galenic tradition "largely mediated through the pseudo-Galenic tract "…
1481 CE
#13888
De regimine sanitatis ad Soldanum Babyloniae.
Maimonides wrote De regimine sanitatis in the 1190s in Arabic as a private manual of health for the Sultan Al-Afdal, son of Saladin. It was translated from Arabic into Hebrew in 1244 by Moses ibn Tibbon, and the Hebre…
1928 CE
#10950
De retardatione accidentium senectutis cum aliis opusculis de rebus medicinalibus. Nunc primum ediderunt A. G. Little [and] E. Withington.
New edition edited from the 1590 printed edition in comparison with existing medieval manuscripts.
1467 CE
#2190
De sermonum proprietate sive Opus de universo.
Also known as De rerum naturis. This dictionary or encyclopedia is the earliest known printed book to include a section dealing with medicine, and this brief section, Book 18, Chap. V concerning medicine and diseases,…
1483 CE
#8341
De urinis by Gilles de Corbeil, with commentary by Gentilis de Fulgineo. Edited by Venantius Mutius.
Gilles de Corbeil's medical poem De urinis was based on writings by Theophilus Protospatharius by way of the Articella. Poems such as this were intended as mnemonic aids for students, and they tended to be widely used…
1766 CE
#2527.99
De variolis et morbillis commentarius.
The first medical description of smallpox was written by Rhazes, about the year 910… The above work is the first edition of the Arabic text with a parallel Latin translation by the English pharmacist and schola…
1492 CE
#7791
De venenis. Ed: Dominicus de Canali.
Compiled in the years, 1424-1426, from Greek, Arabic and Latin works on medicine and nature. "Although Ardoini quotes previous authors at great length, his work is no mere compilation, since he does not hesitate to di…
1477 CE
#1791
De viribus herbarum carmen.
De viribus herbarum carmen has been attributed to Macer Floridus, a pseudonym of Odo of Meung, who lived in the Loire area of France towards the end of the eleventh century. Macer's unillustrated text described the me…
2019 CE
#14040
Deer Leibarzt des Schah Jacob E. Polak 1818-1891. Eine west-östliche Lebensgeschichte.
1936 CE–1979 CE
#6736
Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au moyen age.By E. Wickersheimer. 2 vols. (1936). Supplement by Danielle Jacquart (1979).
1889 CE
#362
Die Anatomie des Heinrich von Mondeville. Nach einer Handschrift der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin von Jahre 1304 zum ersten Male herausgegeben von J. Pagel.
Mondeville was the first teacher known to have lectured with the aid of illustrations, using 13 charts of human anatomy. He lectured at Montpellier. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archiv…
1976 CE
#12422
Die arabische Medizin im lateinischen Mittelalter (Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akad. der Wiss., Math. naturw. Klasse, Jrhrg. 1976, 2. Abh.)
1905 CE
#12519
Die arabischen Lehrbücher der Augenheilkunde. Ein Capitel zur arabischen Litteraturegeschichte. Unter Mitwirkung von J. Lippert und E. Mittwoch. Bearbeitet von J. Hirschberg.
Digital facsimile of the 1905 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated into English as The Arabian Ophthalmologists, compiled from original texts by J. Hirschberg, J. Lippert and E. Mittwoch and tran…
1964 CE
#11945
Die Assimilation der arabischen Medizin durch das lateinische Mittelalter. (Sudhoffs Archive, Beiheft 3.)
1902 CE
#8824
Die Augenheilkunde des Ibn Sina aus dem Arabischen Übersetzt und Erläutert.
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Translation of Book III, Fan III of Avicenna's Canon pertaining to the eye and its diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1892 CE
#5554
Die Chirurgie des Heinrich de Mondeville. Hrsg. von Julius Leopold Pagel.
Henri de Mondeville was the teacher of Guy de Chauliac; he belonged to the School of Montpellier. His work was first printed as above; French translations by E. Nicaise, 1893, and A. Bos, 1897; the latter was reprinte…
1991 CE
#12521
Die Dioskurides-Erklärung des Ibn-al-Baitār: Ein Beitrag zur arabischen Pfanzensynonymik des Mittelalters. Edited and translated by Albert Dietrich. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, phil.-hist. Kl., fol. 3, no. 191).
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1993 CE
#12522
Die Erganzung Ibn Gulgul's zur Materia Medica des Dioskurides: Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Ubersetzung herausgegeben von Albert Dietrich.
1904 CE–1905 CE
#8347
Die europäischen Übersetzungen aus dem Arabischen bis Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from medadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de at this link.
2004 CE
#14080
Die Frühgeschichte der mittelalterlichen medizinischen Fachsprache im Deutschen: Bd 1: Untersuchungen. Bd 2: Wörterbuch.
1884 CE
#9237
Die grosse Sterben in Deutschland in den Jahren 1348 bis 1351 und die folgenden Pestepidemien bis zum Schluss des 14. Jahrhunderts.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1865 CE
#1678
Die grossen Volkskrankheiten des Mittelalters. Historischpathologische Untersuchungen. Von J. F. K. Hecker. Gesammelt und in erweiteter Bearbeitung hrsg. von A. Hirsch.
A collection of essays on the Black Death, the dancing mania, and the English sweat, published 1832-34 and later in a collective English edition, The epidemics of the Middle Ages, 2 pts., London, 1833-35; reprinted 18…
1905 CE–1908 CE
#6767
Die Handschriften der antiken Aerzte. I. Teil: Hippokrates und Galenos. II. Teil: Die übrigen grieschischen Ärzte aßer Hippokates und Galenos. Bericht über den Stand des interakademischen Corpus medicorum antiquorum und Erster Nachtrag zu den in den Abhandlungen 1905 und 1906 veröffentlichten Katalogen. . . .
A catalogue of surviving manuscripts of texts and translations of classical Greek physicians. Republished in book form, 1905-08. Available online from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link. Supplemented by: Gree…
1893 CE
#6765
Die hebräischen Uebersetzungen des Mittelalters. 2 vols.
Reprinted, 1956.
1978 CE
#12310
Die hochsprachliche profane Literatur der Byzantiner. Vol. 1: Philosophie, Rhetorik, Epistolographie, Geschichtschreibung, Geographie. Vol. 2: Philologie, Profandichtung, Musik, Mathematik und Astronomie, Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Kriegswissenschaft, Rechsliteratur
1924 CE
#6512
Die Medizin im Avesta.
The Avesta (Persian: اوستا) is the primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the otherwise unrecorded Avestan language.
1970 CE
#6510.01
Die Medizin im Islam. [Handbuch der Orientalistik, Ergänzungsband 6/1].
1906 CE
#6506
Die Medizin im Koran.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2010 CE
#13456
Die Mineralien in Der Arabischen Pharmakognosie: Eine Konkordanz Zur Mineralischen Materia Medica Der Klassischen Arabischen Heilmittelkunde Nebst ... Kommission (Vok) der A).
1972 CE
#12526
Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam.(Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abteilung, Ergänzungsband VI, 2).
Concerns zoology, botany, mineralogy, alchemy, astrology, magic, agriculture, the largest section being devoted to alchemy.
1997 CE
#9060
Die pflanzlichen Heilmittel bei Hildegard von Bingen: Heilwissen aus der Klostermedizin.
1893 CE
#8581
Die pharmakologischen Grundsätze (Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae) des Abu Mansur Muwaffak bin Ali Harawi zum estern Male nach dem Urtex übersetzt und mit Erklärungen versehen von Abdul-Chalig Achundow aus Baku. (aus Bd. 3 (1893) der Historischen Studien aus dem pharmakologischen Institute der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat). 2 vols.
First translation into a modern language.
1983 CE
#8331
Die Schriften ΠΕΡΙ ΣΦΥΓΜΩΝ des Philaretos. Edited by John A. Pithis.
First edition of the original Greek text, a medieval Latin translation based on Auxerre 240, a German translation, and a detailed commentary by Pithis of the De pulsibus by the obscure Byzantine physician Philaretos, …
1832 CE
#6516
Die Tanzwuth, eine Volkskrankheit im Mittelalter.
A study of the dancing mania of the Middle Ages. An English translation (see No. 1678) appeared in 1835.
1922 CE
#13884
Die Theologie und der ärztliche Stand.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1971 CE
#8348
Die toxikologischen Schriften der Araber bis Ende des XII. Jahrhunderts: Ein bibliographischer Versuch, grossenteils aus handschriftlichen Quellen.
First published in Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin 52 (1871 and 57 (1873).
1877 CE
#6761.1
Die Uebersetzungen arabischer Werke in das Lateinische seit dem XI. Jahrhundert.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1997 CE
#9369
Dieting for an emperor: A translation of books 1 and 4 of Oribasius' Medical Compilations with an introduction and commentary by Mark Grant.
1988 CE
#13357
Dioscurides triumphans: Ein anonymer arabischer Kommentar (Ende 12. Jh. n. Chr.) zur Materia medica. Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Übersetzung. 2 vols.
2007 CE
#13304
Disability in Islamic law.
1512 CE
#571
Divini Gregorii Nyssae episcopi qui fuit frater Basilii Magni libri octo. I. De homine. II. De anima. III. De elementis. IIII. De viribus animae. V. De voltario etinuoltario. VI. De fato. VII. De libero arbitrio. VIII. De prouidentia.
Nemesius’ De natura hominis, a physiological and psychological study of man, was highly esteemed during the Middle Ages. Nemesius, who wrote in the 4th century CE, was one of the first to propose that mental pro…
1986 CE
#6551.4
Doctors and medicine in medieval England 1340-1530.
A social, cultural, and intellectual history of medicine and medical practitioners between the Black Death and the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians.
1867 CE
#9019
Donnolo, Fragment des ältesten medicinischen Werkes in hebräischer Sprache.... von M. Steinschneider.
Written about 970 CE, this is the earliest surviving medical treatise written in Hebrew to which an approximate date can be assigned. Donnolo, who was at one time Byzantine court physician, is one of the earliest Jewi…
1868 CE
#9020