Old French medical texts / edited by Tony Hunt.

Date:
2011
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About this work

Publication/Creation

Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2011.

Physical description

290 pages ; 22 cm.

Contributors

Notes

Contains four previously unpublished Old French medical texts from a compendium composed around 1300 in north-eastern France.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-283) and indexes.

Contents

Medical compendium comprising the Lettre d'Hippocrate, excerpts from the gynecological treatise known as the Trotula, and a short section on diet -- Old French commentary and Latin text of approximately one-third of Gilles de Corbeil's De urinis -- The "Four Masters Gloss" on Roger Frugard's Chirurgia -- Abridged Old French version of Jordanus Rufus' De medicina equorum (La marechaucie des chevaux).

Language note

Old French and Latin; introduction and commentary in English.

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BN.CA.36
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ISBN

  • 9782812402395
  • 2812402393