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678 entries match Medieval [K01.400.500]
2018 CE
#12668
‘Ubaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšū‘ on apparent death: The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyā’, Arabic edition and English translation by Oliver Kahl.
1520 CE–1522 CE
#8344
[Vol. 1:] Primus Avi. Canon. Avicenna, medicorum principis, Canonum liber (translatus a Gerardo Cremonensi), una cum lucidissima Gentilis Fulgi. expositione, qui merito is Speculator appellatus, additis annotationibus omnium auctoritatum and priscorum and recentiorum auctorum (edente Barthomomeo Tantuccio) .... - [Vol. 2:] Secundus Canon Avic., Cum exquisitissima Gentilis Fulg. expositione. Demum Plinii auctoritates, secundum annotata capita in de Simplicibus nuperrime addite. - [Vol.3:] Tertius Can. Avic., Cum amplissima Gentilis Fulgi. expositione. Demum commentaria nuper addita, videlicet Jacobi de Partibus super "Fen" VI and XIIII. Item Jo. Matthei de Gradi super "Fen" XXII, quia Gentilis in eis defecit. - [Vol. 4:]: Secunda pars Gentilis super tertio Avic. Cum supplementis Jacobi de Partibus, Parisiensis, ac Joannis Matthei de Gradi, Mediolanensis, ubi Gentilis vel breviter vel tacite pertransivit. - [Vol.5:] Quartus Canon Avicenna, cum preclara Gentilis Fulginatis exhibits. Thadei item Florentini expositio super secunda "Fen" ejusdem. Gentilis Florentini iterum super duos primos tractatus quinte "Fen". Quintus etiam Canon, cum ejusdem Gentilis Fulginatis lucidissima exhibits. Canticorum liber, cum commento Averroys, translatus ex arabico a magistro Armegando Blasii, Libellus de Viribus cordis translatus ab Arnaldo de Villanova). Omnia accuratissime revisa atque castigata ....
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The commentary by Gentile da Foligno upon Avicenna's Canon was among the most influential medical texts of the Later Middle Ages. See Roger K. French, Canonical medicine: Gentile da Foligno and scholasticism (Leiden: …
2020 CE
#12511
A literary history of medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah. Edited and translated, with essays, by Emilie Savage-Smith, Simon Swain, and Geert Jan van Gelder. With Ignacio Sánchez, N. Peter Joosse, Alasdair Watson, Bruce Inksetter, and Franak Hilloowala. 5 vols.
In addition to the printed version, Brill.com hosts an Open Access version of the text at scholarlyeditions.brill.com/ihom/.
1927 CE
#12674
Ar-Raoudat at-tibbiyya (Le jardin médical) par Ubaîd-Allah Ben Gibraîl Ben Bakhtichoû, Chrétien décédé en 1058: Texte arabe, publié pour la première fois d’après trois manuscrits conservées dans la Bibliothèque des Manuscrits.
2003 CE
#12712
Demetrio Pepagomeno. Prontuario medico. Testo edito per la prima volta, con introduzione, apparato critico e indice. (Hellenica et Byzantina Neapolitana. Collana di Studi e Testi 21).
First printed edition of this Byzantine medical text.
1856 CE
#14062
Kitab-i jarrahi wa yak risalah dar kahhali [in Persian; English translation: Book on surgery with a treatise on ophthalmology]. Lithographed text.
The first Persian-language surgery and ophthalmology textbook based on Western medical science. Polak based his textbook on Joseph Maximilien Chelius’s Handbuch der Chirurgie (1830) and Handbuch der Augenheilkun…
1509 CE
#8445
Medicinae Pliniae libri quinque finiunt foeliciter.
The Medicina Plinii was an anonymous compilation of remedies dating to the early 4th century CE ."The excerptor, saying that he speaks from experience, offers the work as a compact resource for travelers in dealing wi…
2006 CE
#8366
Monica H. Green & Linne R. Mooney: Gilbertus Anglicus, "The Sickness of Women," IN: Sex, Aging and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: MS Trinity College Cambridge R.14.52, Its Language, Scribe, and Texts. Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina. Vol. 2., pp. 455-568.
"Gilbertus's Compendium medicinae was translated into Middle English in the early 15th century.[4] The gynecological and obstetrical portions of that translation were soon excerpted and circulated widely as an indepen…
2010 CE
#11928
"Botany" and "Pharmacy" by Alain Touwaide, in: Handbook of medieval studies. Terms - methods - trends. Edited by Albrecht Classen. 3 vols.
This otherwise comprehensive handbook excludes medicine, per se. Sections most directly pertinent to the life sciences are: Touwaide, Alain. "Botany". Vol. 1, pp. 145-180. This a very detailed bibliographical essay co…
1923 CE
#8552
"Magistri Salernitani nondum cogniti": A contribution to the history of the Medical School of Salerno. By Pietro Capparoni. With a foreward by D'Arcy Power. (Wellcome Historical medical Museum. Research Studies in Medical History No. 2).
Physicans from the medical school at Salerno who were unknown to de Renzi (No. 6518). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2010 CE
#12178
"Teaching surgery in late Byzantine Alexandria" by John Scarborough [in] Manfred Horstmanshoff, ed., Hippocrates and medical education. Selected papers presented at the XIIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, Universiteit Leiden, 24-26 August 2005.
1933 CE
#5815.1
(Al-morchid fi'l-kohhl) ou, Le guide d'oculistique: Ouvrage inédit de l'oculiste arabe-espagnol, Mohammad ibn Qassoum ibn Aslam al-Ghafiqi (XIIe siècle); traduction des parties ophtalmologiques d’après le manuscrit conservé à la bibliothèque de l’Escurial par Max Meyerhof.
2000 CE
#12669
[Comprehensive bibliography of Syriac medicine] in A comprehensive bibliography on Syriac Christianity.
As of 2020 the most comprehensive bibliography on Syriac Medicine that I located online was part of the Comprehensive bibliography on Syriac Christianity in the website of The Center for the Study of Christianity Esta…
1854 CE
#6833
[In Persian script] Cheragh haa rewshenaaa der asewl pezeshekea [Illumination of the fundamentals of medicine].
Issued in 1271 A. H. (1854 CE), this entirely lithographed book introduced Western anatomical illustration to Persian culture. As part of an effort to modernize medical education in Persia, medical textbooks such as M…
2007 CE
#7155
A Byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine. The sources, compilation, and transmission of the Hippiatrica.
1967 CE
#6786.13
A catalogue of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.
1963 CE
#8349
A catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin. Revised and augmented edition.
2016 CE
#7518
A census of Greek medical manuscripts: From Byzantium to the Renaissance.
An amended and updated index of Diels' catalogue (No. 6767), and a list of items missed or overlooked in Diels, or located since.
2020 CE
#12179
A companion to Byzantine science. Edited by Stavros Lazaris.
Chapters relevant to this bibliography include: Zoology by Arnaud Zucker Botany by Alain Touwaide Medicine and Pharmacy by Alain Touwaide Veterinary Medicine by Stavros Lazaris Byzantine Theories of Vision by Katerina…
2011 CE
#8439
A Cretan healer's handbook in the Byzantine tradition: Text, translation and commentary.
1986 CE
#6786.30
A descriptive and analytical catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
1991 CE
#8343
A Hellenistic treatise on poisonous animals (the "Theriaca" of Nicander of Colophon): A contribution to the history of toxicology.
"... the authors review all the ancient treatises, ranged in chronological order, that cite Nicander at greater or lesser length, from Celsus up to Paul of Aegina - not less than thirteen authors. . . . Next follows a…
1998 CE
#8350
A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.
1998 CE
#11895
A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.
"A general introduction to the history of medieval Jewish medicine, its origins in Muslim countries, the main Arabic and Judeo-Arabic texts, and the renaissance of Hebrew as a language of science in the 12th-15th cent…
1923 CE–1958 CE
#6422
A history of magic and experimental science. 8 vols.
Vols. 1-2 deal with the first 13 centuries of the Christian era; vols. 3-4 with the 14th and 15th centuries, vols. 5-6 with the 16th century, and vols. 7-8 with the 17th century.
1991 CE–2007 CE
#7415
A history of medicine. 6 vols.
Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…
1934 CE
#8876
A leechbook or collection of medical receipts of the fifteenth century: The text of ms. no. 136 of the Medical Society of London, together with a transcript into modern spelling, transcribed and edited with an introduction, notes and appendix by Warren R. Dawson.
1951 CE
#6515
A medical history of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate from the earliest times until the year A.D. 1932.
A continous history of the art and practice of medicine in Persia and bordering countries from the earliest times. Reprinted, with additions and corrections from the author’s copy: edited by G. van Heusden. Amst…
2011 CE
#12513
A new catalogue of Arabic manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Vol. 1: Medicine.
1963 CE
#7413
A pharmaceutical view of Abulcasis al-Zahrawi in moorish Spain.
2017 CE
#12571
A Syriac medical Kunnāšā of Īšōʿ bar ʿAlī (9th c.): First soundings
Abstract: "A little-known thirteenth-century manuscript preserved in Damascus contains by far the largest Syriac medical work that has survived till today. Despite the missing beginning, a preliminary study of the tex…
1930 CE
#45
A treatise on the Canon of Medicine incorporating a translation of the First Book
This translation of Book I of the Canon accompanied by a large number of valuable notes and comments on the text, which bring out the close connection between Arabic and Chinese medicine, and the influence which Avice…
1848 CE
#5441
A treatise on the smallpox and measles. Translated from the Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill.
Rhazes differentiated measles from smallpox. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 4, 22-84. For original publication see No. 5404. The first English translation appeared in No. 5417. Digital facsimile from the Internet A…
2015 CE
#8583
A Turkic medical treatise from Islamic Central Asia: A critical edition of a seventeenth-century Chagatay work by Subḥān Qulï Khan. Edited, translated and annotated by Lásló Károly.
"...the first serious study on seventeenth-century Central Asian medicine that provides a major resource for the linguistic and cultural history of Central Asia.... The author offers a critical edition of a seventeent…
2011 CE
#7100
A world of beasts: A thirteenth-century illustrated Arabic book on animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Hayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' Tradition.
Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori (also spelled Bukhtishu and Bukht-Yishu in literature) were Persian or Assyrian Nestorian Christian physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning 6 generations and 250 years. The K…
1539 CE
#9016
Actuarius de medicamentorum compositione. Ruellio interprete.
The 5th and 6th books of Actuarius's De methodo medendi, concerning materia medica. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1456 CE
#6818
Aderlasskalender.
The Aderlasskalender for the year 1457, also known as the Laxierkalender, was issued in Mainz, printed in the type of the 36-line Bible, presumably in 1456. It survives in only one incomplete copy in the Biblioth&egra…
1533 CE–1534 CE
#6974
Aetii Amideni quem alii Antiochenum vocant medici clarissimi libri XVI. tomos divisi : quorum primus & ultimus Ioan. Baptista Montano Veronensi medico, secundus Iano Cornario Zuiccauiensi, & ipso medicinae professore, interpretibus latinitate donati sunt. In quo opere cuncta quae ad curandi artem pertinent congesta sunt, ex omnibus qui usq[ue] ad eius tempora scripserant, diligentissime excerpta. Additus est index in omneis tomos copiosissimus. 3 vols.
J. B. Montanus and Janus Cornarius prepared the first edition of Aetius's collected works in Latin translation. That edition was the first to include Aetius's writings on obstetrics, which epitomized all previous know…
1475 CE
#6789
Aggregator, sive de medicinis simplicibus.
First printed edition of an encyclopedic dictionary of medicine, containing a large number of medical recipes based upon Greek and Arabic sources. Dondi completed the work in 1355. Manuscripts of his text are preserve…
2005 CE
#12170
Agnellus de Ravenne. Lectures galéniques: le «De pulsibus ad tirones». Introduction, texte latin (adiuuante Ivan Garofalo), traduction française, notes explicatives, bibliographie et index par Nicoletta Palmieri, «Mémoires XXVIII du Centre Jean Palerne».
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1973 CE
#8524
Al-Biruni's book on pharmacy and materia medica (Kitāb al-saydan fī al-tibb). Edited and translated by Hakim Mohammed Said. 2 vols.
2015 CE
#8260
Al-Rāzī, On the treatment of small children (De curis puerorum). The Latin and Hebrew Translations, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh.
One of the few texts on pediatrics that circulated during the Middle Ages, this short Latin tretise is the translation of a lost Arabic original attributed--perhaps mistakenly--to Rhazes.
2008 CE
#8572
Alberti Magni e-corpus.
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~albertus/ "Albertus Magnus (ca. 1200 – 1280) is one of the most important medieval philosophers and theologians, and one of the very few to have been recognized as an auctoritas in …
1867 CE
#1792
Alberti Magni ex ordine praedicatorum de vegetabilibus libri VII: Historiae naturalis pars XVIII. Editionem criticam ab Ernesto Meyero coeptam: Absolvit Carolus Jessen.
One of the best works on natural history produced during the Middle Ages, and, like most of Albertus's works, influential throughout the medieval period, though it does not appear to have been published in print until…
1999 CE
#8563
Albertus Magnus, On animals: A medieval summa zoologica. Translated and annotated by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. and Irven Michael Resnick. 2 vols.
1973 CE
#9353
Albucasis on surgery and instruments. A definitive edition of the Arabic text, with English translation and commentary by M. S. Spink and G. L. Lewis.
1878 CE–1879 CE
#8966
Alexander von Tralles. Original-Text und Übersetzung nebst einer einleitenden Abhandlung. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1548 CE
#11111
Alexandrū Trallianū Iatrū Biblia Dyokaideka. Alexandri Tralliani medici libri XII. Rhazae De pestilentia libellus ex Syrorum lingua in Graecam translatus. Edited by Jacques Goupil.
First edition of the Greek text of the works of Alexander of Tralles, together with an edition of Rhazes on the plague. Both texts were edited by Jacques Goupil. The work was issued by the distinguished scholar printe…
2007 CE
#8557
Alphita: Edición crítica y comentario de Alejandro García González. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 02.
Alphita, farina ordei idem, an anonymous collection of glosses, documents the linguistic renewal of the medical and botanical technical lexicon, derived from Greco-Latin as well as Arabic sources, at the School of Sal…
1975 CE–1991 CE
#8489
An annotated bibliography of Islamic science by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. 3 vols. Vols. 1 and 3 with the collaboration of William C. Chittick; Vol. 2 with the collaboration of William C. Chittick and Peter Zirnis.
A comprehensive historical bibliography in English on Islamic science, including medicine, documenting classic works and scholarship up to 1990, In English and Arabic. Vol. 1: General works and Biographical and biblio…