A Middle English version of the Circa Instans
By: edited from Cambridge, CUL, MS Ee.1.13 by Edurne Garrido-Anes
Contributors: Garrido-Anes, Edurne, editor; Cambridge University Library
Series: Middle English texts -- 59; Middle English texts -- 59.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9783825347666
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Medieval Medicine; Phytotherapy; History; Plant Extracts; Therapeutic use; Medieval History; Manuscripts as Topic; Cambridge University Library; Circa instans (Platearius, Matthaeus)
Work titles: Circa instans
Description: "Cambridge, CUL, MS Ee.1.13 contains a Middle English version of the Liber de Simplici Medicina (Circa Instans), a treatise on materia medica attributed to the twelfth-century physician Matthaeus Platearius. The relevance and popularity of this Latin work composed at the renowned medical School of Salerno extended over time and space. Its encyclopaedic presentation of simples of vegetable, animal, and mineral nature - with allegedly curative virtues - was the core of botanical works until the sixteenth century, and has survived, in various forms - treatise, remedy book, auxiliary tables - in a substantial number of manuscripts in Latin and the vernaculars. This is the first edition of the complete version of the CI in Middle English. The introduction, commentary, and glossary not only provide a context for reading the text, but also contribute to an understanding of the emergence and development of a language and culture of medicine in medieval England. The glossary is an extensive compilation of the anatomical, medical, and botanical terminology used." --Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-209) and glossary.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Manuscript Sigla -- Manuscripts -- List Of Figures -- Introduction; title: The Project --; title: The Circa Instans in Latin and the Vernaculars --; title: Predecessors and Sources of the Salernitan Treatise --; title: Analogues and Influence of the Latin CI --; title: The CI in England and in English --; title: The CI in Cambridge, CUL, MS Ee.1.13 and its Variants --; title: The Latin Source --; title: The Manuscript --; title: Dialectal Localization --; title: Editorial Policy --; title: Circa Instans -- -- Commentary -- Glossary -- Comparative Table Of Entries; title: Marginalia ---- Bibliography.