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678 entries match Medieval [K01.400.500]
1897 CE–1904 CE
#11935
Les plantes dans l'antiquité et au moyen âge. Histoire, usages et symbolisme. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
2007 CE
#12988
Les regimes de santé au Moyen Âge. 2 vols.
1977 CE
#9013
Les sciences biologiques et médicales à Byzance. (Cahiers d'historie et de philosophie des sciences, n. 3)
2011 CE
#12730
Lexique des terms de la pharmacopée syriaque. (Studia Iranica, Cahier 47; Chrétiens en terre d'Iran, 5)
A dictionary of Syriac names for plants used to make botanic drugs.
1511 CE
#9183
Libellus de lapidibus preciosis nuper editus.
The earliest medieval lapidary, and also the one which was quoted most widely. By the fourteenth century it was translated into French, Provençal, Italian, Irish, and Danish, and it was the first of Marbodius's…
1590 CE
#10962
Libellus Rogerii Baconi Angli doctissimi mathematici et medici, De retardandis senectutis accidentibus et de sensibus conservandis.... opera Johannis Williams Oxoniensis.
Translated into English by Richard Browne as The cure of old age and preservation of youth by Roger Bacon, a Franciscan frier (London, 1683). Digital facsimile of the 1683 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
1481 CE
#6313
Liber ad Almansorem sive Tractatus medicinae I-X. Add: Liber divisionum; De aegritudinibus juncturarum; De aegritudinibus puerorum; De secretis sive aphorismi; De sectionibus et ventosis; Synonyma. Galenus: De medicinis experimentatis. Mesue (the elder): Aphorismi. Hippocrates: secreta; Capsula eburnea; De humana natura; De aere et aqua et regionibus; De pharmaciis. Tabula de herbis medicis.
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
Rhazes was the first to devote an entire treatise to diseases of children. Although he lived so many years before the advent of printing, he was still regarded as an authority in the 15th century and his works were am…
2008 CE
#11624
Liber bestiarum. MS Bodley 764. Commentary by Christopher de Hamel and translation by Richard Barber. 2 vols.
Full color facsimile of the illuminated manuscript with translation and commentary in an accompanying volume. The two volumes boxed. The translation was originally published by the Folio Society in 1992, and the Boyde…
1830 CE–1833 CE
#1788
Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae. Auctore Abu Mansur Mowafik ben Ali al Herui. Epitome codicis manuscripti persici Bibl. caes. reg. Vienn. inediti. Primus Latio donavit Romeo Seligmann. 2 vols.
The most important early Persian pharmacological work, first published in print in Latin translation. Muvaffak flourished in Herat (current Afghanistan), under the Samanid prince Mansur I ibn Nuh, who ruled from 961 t…
1492 CE
#42
Liber medicinae, sive Regalis dispositio. Tr: Stephanus Antiochenus. Ed: Antonius Vitalis.
The Almaleki, or Liber regius, of Haly Abbas was the leading treatise on medicine for a hundred years, when it was displaced by Avicenna’s Canon. This was the only edition printed in the 15th century. ISTC No. i…
1987 CE
#12957
Liber minor de coitu: Tratado menor de andrología anónimo Salernitano: Edicíon crítica, traducción y notas, by Enrique Montero Cartelle.
1476 CE
#39
Liber nonus ad Almansorem (cum expositione Silani de Negris).
The Almansor, so named after the prince to whom it was addressed, was a popular textbook and one of the first general medical texts to be printed. Rhazes ranks with Hippocrates and Galen as one of the founders of clin…
1474 CE
#7151
Liber pandectarum medicinae.
An encyclopedia of medicines, mostly derived from plants, completed about the year 1317. The medicines are arranged in alphabetical order. Two printed editions were issued in 1474. The first, issued in Naples, appeare…
1477 CE
#10725
Liber phsionomiae [and other works].
![SCOT, Michael [Michael Scotus] (1175 – 1232)](/media/portraits/12461)
"Composed between 1209 and 1226, the first of the two primary texts discusses human generation — anatomy, physiology, astrology, sexual behavior, conception and the health of the fetus. The second part, the Phys…
1471 CE
#11287
Liber servitoris de praeparatione medicinarum simplicium. Translated by Abraham Tortuosiensis. Edited by Simon a Cordo.
Book 28 on drugs from the Al-Tasrif, a 30-volume Arabic encyclopaedia on medicine and surgery, written ca. 1000 CE by Abulcasis. ISTC No. ia00014000. Digital facsimile from the Württembergische Landesbibliothek S…
1490 CE
#47
Liber Teisir, sive rectificatio medicationis et regiminis. Antidotarium. Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Jacobus Hebraeus; into Latin by Paravicius. Add: Averroes: Colliget.
This is a Latin translation from a Hebrew version dating from 1280. Avenzoar, the greatest Muslim physician of the Western Caliphate, described the itch-mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, serous pericarditis, mediastinal absces…
1519 CE
#3048
Liber theoricae nec non practicae Alsaharavii.
This is the first printing of the medical and therapeutic section of Abul Qasim’s medical encyclopedia or al-Tasrif. It contains what is probably the earliest description of hemophilia (fol. 145). Digital facsim…
1995 CE
#13457
Libro de los medicamentos simples. [Kitab al-adwiya al-mufrada]. Edición, traducción, notas y glosarios de Luisa Fernanda Aguirre de Cárcer. 2 vols.
2018 CE
#11927
Life is short, art long: The art of healing in Byzantium. New perspectives. Edited by Brigitte Ptarakis and Gülru Tanman.
1960 CE
#9442
Lo "Speculum hominis": Poema anonimo di etimologia medica del secolo XIII. Edited by Marco T. Malato and Concezio Alicandri-Ciufelli.
1952 CE
#13306
Magicians, theologians and doctors: Studies in folk-medicine and folk-lore as reflected in the rabbinical Responsa (12th-19th centuries).
1997 CE
#9344
Magie, médecine et divination chez les Celtes.
1901 CE
#50
Magistri salernitani nondum editi. Catalogo ragionato della Esposizione di storia della medicina aperta in Torino nel 1898. By Piero Giacosa, with the assistance of Ferdinando Gabotto. 2 vols.
Reproduction of some of the texts produced at the School of Salerno. In all, it is believed that the total output from the School numbered 100 texts, including the famous poem Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, or Flos M…
2002 CE–2007 CE
#8245
Maimonides on asthma: a parallel Arabic-English text, edited, translated and annotated by Gerrit Bos. Maimonides on asthma, Vol. 2: Critical editions of medieval Hebrew and Latin translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.
2018 CE
#13129
Maimonides On coitus. A new parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides Vol. 11.)
"Moses Maimonides' On Coitus was composed at the request of an unknown high-ranking official who asked for a regimen that would be easy to adhere to, and that would increase his sexual potency, as he had a large numbe…
2012 CE
#8258
Maimonides On hemorrhoids. A new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.
2009 CE
#8256
Maimonides On poisons and the protection against lethal drugs. A parallel Arabic-English edition, edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos, along with critical editions of Hebrew and Latin; medieval translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.
2014 CE
#8259
Maimonides On rules regarding the practical part of the medical art. A parallel English-Arabic edition and translation. Translated by Gerrit Bos, edited by Y. Tzvi Langermann
2020 CE
#13128
Maimonides, commentary on Hippocrates’ aphorisms: a new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, with critical editions of the medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos. 2 vols. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Vols. 14.1, 14.2.)
"Hippocrates’ Aphorisms enjoyed great popularity in the ancient and medieval world and, according to Maimonides, it was Hippocrates’ most useful work as it contained aphorisms, which every physician should…
2020 CE
#13132
Maimonides, Medical aphorisms, Hebrew translation by Nathan ha-Me'ati. Edited by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Vol. 15.)
"The original Arabic text of Maimonides’ major medical work, Medical Aphorisms, was critically edited and translated into English by Gerrit Bos in the years 2004-2017, and published in earlier volumes of the boo…
2020 CE
#13310
Maimonides, Medical aphorisms, Hebrew translation by R. Zerahyah ben Isaac ben She'altiel Hen
2019 CE
#13130
Maimonides, On the elucidation of some symptoms and the response to them. (Formerly known as On the causes of symptoms). A new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, with critical editions of the medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Vol. 13).
"The present consilium, commonly known as De causis accidentium, after the Latin translation by John de Capua, was, like the earlier consilium On the Regimen of Health, composed by Maimonides at the request of al-Mali…
2019 CE
#13131
Maimonides, On the regimen of health. A new parallel Arabic-English translation by Gerrit Bos. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides Vol. 12).
"Maimonides’ On the Regimen of Health was composed at an unknown date at the request of al-Malik al-Afḍal Nūr al-Dīn Alī, Saladin’s eldest son who complained of constipation, indigestion, and depression. T…
1489 CE
#6495.7
Maimonides: Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni. Add: Mesue: Aphorismi. Rhasis: De secretis in medicina. Hippocrates: Capsula eburnea.
The most popular and influential medical work by Maimonides, the most famous of early Jewish physician/philosophers. This is a collection of about 1500 aphorisms derived from Galen, and divided into 24 treatises. In t…
2004 CE–2015 CE
#8310
Maimonides: Medical aphorisms. A parallel Arabic-English edition edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos. Vol. 1: Treatises 1-5.; Vol. 2: Treatises 6-9; Vol. 3: Treatises 10-15; Vol. 4: Treatises 16-21. Vol. 5: Treatises 22-25.
1987 CE
#8270
Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates. Translated with a commentary by Fred Rosner
1992 CE
#8461
Majnūn: The madman in Medieval Islamic society.
2008 CE
#7130
Making women's medicine masculine. The rise of male authority in pre-modern gynecology.
Starting with Trotula, this study concerns medieval and early modern material up to about 1600.
2012 CE
#8262
Mamluks and animals: Veterinary medicine in medieval Islam.
The first comprehensive study of veterinary medicine, its practitioners and patients, in the medieval Islamic world.
1996 CE
#11829
Manuale medico / Paolo di Nicea ; testo edito per la prima volta, con introduzione, apparato critico, traduzione e note a cura di Anna Maria Ieraci Bio
2006 CE
#12987
Manuscrits médicaux Latins de la Bibliothèque nationale de France: Un index des oeuvres et des auteurs.
"Abstract "This index of medical medieval texts is the first result of a collective work started in the 60s. It is deliberately limited to medical works (to the exclusion of veterinary art, alchemy, and natural philos…
1972 CE
#8354
Maurus of Salerno, twelfth-century "optimus physicus" with his commentary on the prognostics of Hippocrates, now first transcribed from manuscript and translated into English by Morris Harold Saffron. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N.S. Vol. 62, pt. 1).
1855 CE
#6503
Médecine et hygiène des Arabes. Études sur l’exercice de la médecine et de la chirurgie chez les Musulmans de l’Algérie, leurs connaissances en anatomie, histoire naturelle, pharmacie, médecine légale, etc. Leurs conditions climatériques générales, leur pratiques hygiéniques publiques et privées, leurs maladies, leurs traitements les plus usités. Précédées de considérations sur l’état général de la médecine chez les principales nations Mahométanes.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive, at this link.
1989 CE
#8452
Médecine et justice en Provence médiévale: Documents de Manosque, 1262-1348.
1933 CE–1937 CE
#35.1
Médecine et thérapeutique byzantines: Oeuvres médicales d’Alexander de Tralles, le dernier auteur classique des grands médecins grecs de l’antiquité. Ed. F. Brunet. 4 vols.
1966 CE
#8072
Médecine humaine et vétérinaire à la fin du Moyen Âge.
1991 CE
#8298
Mediaeval prognosis and astrology: A working edition of the [anonymous] Aggregationes de crisi et creticis diebus, with introduction and English summary by Cornelius O'Boyle
This pre-Galenic astrological text by an unknown author from the later part of the 13th century concerns astrological prognostication. It was based upon Book III of Galen's De diebus criticis, but provided a "handy sh…
1567 CE
#55
Medicae artis principes post Hippocratum et Galenum. Graeci Latinitate donati. Aretaeus, Ruffus Ephesius, Oribasius, Paul Aegineta, Aetius, Alex. Trallianus, Actuarius, Nic. Myrepsus. Latini, Corn. Celsus, Scrib. Largus, Marcell. Empiricus. Aliique praterea, quorum unius nomen ignoratur. Index non solum copiosus, sed etiam ordine artificioso omnia digest habens. Hippocra. aliquot loci cum Corn. Celsi interpretatione. Henr. Stephani de hac sua editione tetrastichon. Quaerere quos aegri per compita multa solebant, Hospita nunc per me est omnibus una domus. Prima salutiserae medicorum gratia dextrae: Sistenti medicos nonne secunda mihi? 2 vols.
MEDICAE ARTIS PRINCIPES
This collection of Roman, Late Antique, and Byzantine medical works, written after Hippocrates and Galen, was edited and published by Henri Estienne. The unusually worded title page states that it contains Latin trans…
1994 CE
#8261
Medical and para-medical manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah collections by Haskell D. Issacs with the assistance of Colin F. Baker.
2013 CE
#12299