Facets

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…

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…

1998 CE

#8350

A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.

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…

2015 CE

#12201

An edition, translation and commentary of Mustio's Gynaecia (Unpublished doctoral thesis).

This dissertation represents "a new critical edition of Mustio’s Gynaecia, the first since Valentin Rose’s 1882 volume for the Teubner series. It is accompanied by a facing page translation, the first in E…

1951 CE

#12203

Caelius Aurelianus Gynaecia, Fragments of a Latin version of Soranus' Gynaecia from a thirteenth century manuscript. Edited by Miriam Drabkin and Israel Drabkin.

Edition and translation of a surviving fragment of Caelius Aurelianus's text that did not survive in its entirely. The fragment, preserved in the New York Academy of Medicine, fuses the text of Muscio with that of Cae…

1544 CE

#6009.1

Experimentarius medicinae. Continens Trotulae curandarum aegriudinum muliebrium ante, in & post partium lib. unicum, nusquam antea editum…[Georg Kraut]

First printed edition of the gynecological writings attributed to the woman physician, Trota, who is frequently called Trotula after the name of the collection of works with whom she is associated. Trota is said to ha…

1963 CE

#6311.4

Frau und Frauenheilkunde in der Kultur des Mittelalters.

A continuation of No. 6303.

1908 CE

#6293

Geschichte der gynäkologische-anatomischen Abbildungen.

From the ancient world through the 18th century. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1936 CE

#11896

Gynäkologische Fragmente aus dem frühen Mittelalter: nach einer Petersburger Handschrift aus dem VIII.-IX. Jahrhundert zum ersten Mal gedruckt.

1991 CE

#12202

Les Infortunes de Dinah: Le livre de la génération. La gynécologie juive au Moyen-Age. Edited and translated by Ron Barkai.

Critical edition and French translation of Doeg ha-Edomi's late twelfth-century text, the Sefer ha-Toledet (The Book of Generation), a Hebrew translation of the Latin Gynecology of Muscio set in the form of a dialogue…

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.

1981 CE

#6981

Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and modern English translation by Beryl Rowland.

This 15th century manuscript (British Library Sloan 2463) predates by about a century The byrth of mankynde, previously considered the first work on the subject.

1566 CE

#6136

Moschionos Peri gynaikeion pathon, id est…De morbis muliebribus liber unus; cum CONARDI GESNERI… scholiis & emendationibus nun primum editus opera ac studio CASPARI WOLPHII.

The earliest text specifically for midwives, based on the teachings of Soranus, the greatest obstetrical writer of antiquity. Muscio was a pupil of Soranus. His book, the earliest copy of which is a manuscript dating …

1983 CE

#9095

Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.

2001 CE

#12953

The knowing of woman's kind in childing: A Middle English version of material derived from the "Trotula" and other sources. (Medieval women: Texts and contexts, 4). Edited by Alexandra Barratt.

The core of this text is an Englished version of a 13th-century Anglo-Norman translation of the Trotula. The redactor also incorporated the "Non omnes quidem" version of Muscio, amplifying the meager obstetrical mater…

2000 CE

#9094

The measure of multitude: Population in medieval thought.

Chapters 6-8 cover "Avoidance of offspring" or aspects of contraception.

2002 CE

#8577

The Trotula: A medieval compendium of women's medicine, edited and translated by Monica H. Green.

A new translation of a new edition of the texts based on collation of 9 MSS from the second half of the 13th or early 14th century. "The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Euro…

1996 CE

#11898

Verborgene Heilkünst: Geschichte Der Frauenmedizin im Spätmittelalter.

2000 CE

#11893

Women's healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and contexts.

The Appendix is Medieval gynecological texts: A handlist. This is "a list of all gynecological texts currently known to me from western Europe written between the 4th and 15th centuries. It includes gynecological exce…