The "Sekenesse of wymmen"
Subtitle: a Middle English treatise on diseases in women (Yale Medical Library, Ms. 47 fols. 60r-71v)
By: edited by M.-R. Hallaert.
Contributors: Hallaert, M.-R.; Yale Medical Library.
Series: Scripta ;; 8; Scripta (Brussels, Belgium) ;; 8.
Publisher: Omirel, UFSAL
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Brussel
Language: enm
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Gynecology -- Early works to 1800.; Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine, Medieval.; English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Texts.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 21-22.
The text is one of several related Middle English treatises deriving from the Latin gynecological texts of Trotula.
Facsimile (black & white) of the ms. and transcription on facing pages.
"Manuscript 47 ... was written at Maxstoke Priory, England. It dates from the second half of the fifteenth century"--P. 19.
Includes commentary on some terms and a glossary translating all the words of the ms. into modern English and Dutch.
Includes index.