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678 entries match Medieval [K01.400.500]
1854
#14061
Kitab fi tashrih beden al-insan [in Persian; English translation: Anatomy of the human body]. Lithographed text.
The first original Persian-language anatomy textbook based on western medical science, printed in a very small number of copies for the use of Polak’s Persian students. Polak, an Austrian physician, was responsible fo…
1855
#6503
Médecine et hygiène des Arabes. Études sur l’exercice de la médecine et de la chirurgie chez les Musulmans de l’Algérie, leurs connaissances en anatomie, histoire naturelle, pharmacie, médecine légale, etc. Leurs conditions climatériques générales, leur pratiques hygiéniques publiques et privées, leurs maladies, leurs traitements les plus usités. Précédées de considérations sur l’état général de la médecine chez les principales nations Mahométanes.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive, at this link.
1856
#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 Augenheilkunde (18…
1857
#6518
Storia documentata della scuola medica di Salerno. 2nd. ed.
An account of the School was provided by P.O. Kristeller in Bull. Hist. Med., 1945, 17, 138-94. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1860
#6504
La médecine du Prophète, traduit de l'arabe par M. le docteur Perron.
First appeared in Gaz. méd. d’Algerie, 1859, 4.
1862
#7792
Poetae bucolici et didactici: Theocritus, Bion, Moschus....Phile De animalibus, elephanti, plantis....
Manuel Philes of Ephesus wrote didactic poems on the characteristics of animals, chiefly based upon Aelian and Oppian, and a didactic poem of some 2000 lines, dedicated to Michael IX Palaiologos; on the elephant, and …
1864 –1866
#6534
Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest. Collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne. 3 vols.
This set contains many texts relating to medieval English medicine and the Anglo-Saxon language. It contains the Herbal of Apuleius in Anglo-Saxon and modern English, the Leechbook of Bald, the text of Sextus Placitus…
1865
#1678
Die grossen Volkskrankheiten des Mittelalters. Historischpathologische Untersuchungen. Von J. F. K. Hecker. Gesammelt und in erweiteter Bearbeitung hrsg. von A. Hirsch.
A collection of essays on the Black Death, the dancing mania, and the English sweat, published 1832-34 and later in a collective English edition, The epidemics of the Middle Ages, 2 pts., London, 1833-35; reprinted 18…
1866
#8963
Botanik der spaeteren Griechen vom dritten bis dreizehnten Jahrhuntert.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1867
#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…
1867
#9019
Donnolo, Fragment des ältesten medicinischen Werkes in hebräischer Sprache.... von M. Steinschneider.
Written about 970 CE, this is the earliest surviving medical treatise written in Hebrew to which an approximate date can be assigned. Donnolo, who was at one time Byzantine court physician, is one of the earliest Jewi…
1868
#5558
Pfolspeundt: Buch der Bündth-Ertznei. Hrsg. von H. Haeser und A. Middeldorpf.
Although not printed until 1868, this treatise was written about 1460, and is the first work of the early German surgeons. Pfolspeundt was a Bavarian army surgeon; his book includes the first allusion to the extractio…
1868
#9020
Donnolo. Pharmakologische Fragmente aus dem zehnten Jahrhundert, nebst Beiträgen zur Literatur der Salternitaner hauptsächlich nach handschriftlichen hebräischen Quellen. (Sonderabdruck in 50 Expl. aus d, "Archiv f. patholog. Anatomie u.s.w. "herausg. von Rud. Virchow, Bd. 38-42). Als Beilagen: Constantinus Africanus und seine arabischen Quellen (aus demselben Archiv, Bd. 37)., Donnolo, Fragment des ältesten medicinischen Werkes in hebräischer Sprache, zum ersten Mal herausgegeben von M. Steinschneider.
1868
#10180
Zakarīyā b. Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī's Kosmographie. Nach der Wüstenfeldschen Textausgabe, mit Benutzung und Beifügung der reichhaltigen Anmerkungen und Verbesserungen des Herrn Prof. Dr. Fleischer in Leipzig, aus dem Arabischen zum ersten Male vollständig übersetzt von Dr. Hermann Ethé. Die Wunder der Schöpfung. 1. Halbband
Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
1876
#6505
Histoire de la médecine arabe. Exposé complet des traductions du grec. Les sciences en Orient, leur transmission à l’Occident par les traductions latines. 2 vols.
An exhaustive history, for its time, of Arabian medical translations from East to West and vice versa. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive, at this link.
1877
#6761.1
Die Uebersetzungen arabischer Werke in das Lateinische seit dem XI. Jahrhundert.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1877
#7118
De observatione ciborum epistula ad Theudericum Regem Francorum. Iterum edidit Valentinus Rose.
De observatione ciborum ("On the Observance of Foods") by Anthimus, a Byzantine physician at the court of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric, concerns foods and their preparations as well as the use of foods for selected ai…
1877
#8417
L'ancienne faculté de médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1877 –1883
#8528
Traité des simples. 3 vols. Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques, 1877, tome 23,1; tome 25,1; tome 26,1. Traduit par Lucien Leclerc.
Ibn al-Baytar systematically recorded the additions to pharmacy made by medieval Islamic physicians, who added between 300 and 400 types of medicines to the roughly one thousand known since antiquity. "Ibn al-Baitar’s…
1878 –1879
#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.
1879
#443
Das Arabische un Hebräische in der Anatomie.
Hyrtl, professor of anatomy at Prague and Vienna, retired in 1874 and devoted his leisure to the writing of this and his Onomatologia anatomica. Garrison considered Hyrtl, along with Littré, among the greatest medical…
1883
#1648
Medical economy during the Middle Ages; a contribution to the history of European morals, from the time of the Roman Empire to the close of the 14th century.
1884
#9237
Die grosse Sterben in Deutschland in den Jahren 1348 bis 1351 und die folgenden Pestepidemien bis zum Schluss des 14. Jahrhunderts.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1884
#13341
Ibn Abi Useibia. Herausgegeben von August Müller.
Self-published. Arabic text with relatively brief commentary. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1885
#8416
Les médecins grecs depuis la mort de Galien jusqu'a la chute de l'empire d'orient (210-1453).
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1888
#13059
Poëme sur la grande peste de 1348. Publié d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque du Palais Saint-Pierre par Georges Geigue.
The book indicates that 175 copies were printed "sur papier de Hollande." The editor describes himself as the archivist of the city of Lyon. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1889
#362
Die Anatomie des Heinrich von Mondeville. Nach einer Handschrift der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin von Jahre 1304 zum ersten Male herausgegeben von J. Pagel.
Mondeville was the first teacher known to have lectured with the aid of illustrations, using 13 charts of human anatomy. He lectured at Montpellier. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archiv…
1889
#9041
Geschichte des Physiologus.
The most comprehensive survey of the general background of the Physiologus, and the later influence of this text. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1890
#1650
Gesundheitspflege im Mittelalter.
1890
#6999
La grande chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac...composée en l'an 1363, revue et collationnée sur les manuscrits et imprimes Latins et Français, ornée de gravures avec des notes, une introduction sur le moyen age, sur la vie et les oeuvres de Guy de Chauliac, un glossaire et une table alphabétique by E. Nicaise.
The standard edition in French includes a very extensive bibliography of both manuscript and printed versions. English translation of sections on wounds and fractures, Chicago, 1923.
1892
#5554
Die Chirurgie des Heinrich de Mondeville. Hrsg. von Julius Leopold Pagel.
Henri de Mondeville was the teacher of Guy de Chauliac; he belonged to the School of Montpellier. His work was first printed as above; French translations by E. Nicaise, 1893, and A. Bos, 1897; the latter was reprinte…
1893
#6765
Die hebräischen Uebersetzungen des Mittelalters. 2 vols.
Reprinted, 1956.
1893
#8581
Die pharmakologischen Grundsätze (Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae) des Abu Mansur Muwaffak bin Ali Harawi zum estern Male nach dem Urtex übersetzt und mit Erklärungen versehen von Abdul-Chalig Achundow aus Baku. (aus Bd. 3 (1893) der Historischen Studien aus dem pharmakologischen Institute der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat). 2 vols.
First translation into a modern language.
1894
#8939
Lanfrank's "Science of Cirurgie." Edited from the Bodeian Ashmole MS. 1396 (ab. 1380 A.D.) and the British Museum Additional MS. 12, 056 (ab. 1420 A.D.) by Robert v. Fleischhacker.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1897 –1904
#11935
Les plantes dans l'antiquité et au moyen âge. Histoire, usages et symbolisme. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1898
#447
Studien zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter.
1898
#12617
Chirugie de Guillaume de Salicet achevée en 1275. Traduction et commentaire par Paul Pifteau.
![SALICETO, Guglielmo da [WILLIAM OF SALICETO] (1210 – 1277)](/media/portraits/6798)
Original edition limited to 200 copies. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1899
#6519
Medical works of the fourteenth century; together with a list of plants recorded in contemporary writings, with their identification.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1899
#13420
Une chaire de médecine au XVe siècle. Un professeur à l'Université de Pavie de 1432 à 1472 avec un fac-simile d'autographe et cinq gravures
Biography, case records, and annotated list of Ferrari da Gradi's library. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1901
#6644
Science and mediaeval thought.
1901
#50
Magistri salernitani nondum editi. Catalogo ragionato della Esposizione di storia della medicina aperta in Torino nel 1898. By Piero Giacosa, with the assistance of Ferdinando Gabotto. 2 vols.
Reproduction of some of the texts produced at the School of Salerno. In all, it is believed that the total output from the School numbered 100 texts, including the famous poem Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, or Flos M…
1902
#8824
Die Augenheilkunde des Ibn Sina aus dem Arabischen Übersetzt und Erläutert.
![AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037)](/media/portraits/9572)
Translation of Book III, Fan III of Avicenna's Canon pertaining to the eye and its diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#4296.5
L’urologie et les médecins urologues dans la médecine ancienne. Gilles de Corbeil: Sa vie- ses oeuvres- son poème des urines.
Reproduces rare documents and illustrations, with texts by Gilles de Corbeil and de Cuba. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#8363
Trois traités d'anatomie arabes par Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi, 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas, et 'Ali ibn Sina. Text inédit de deux traités. Traduction de P. de Koning.
Parallel Arabic and French texts. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#12176
P. Vegeti Renati digestorum artis mulomedicinae libri edidit Ernestus Lommatzsch. Accedit Gargili Martialis de curis boum fragmentum.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Includes an edition of the Late Antique Latin writer Quintus Gargilius Martialis's fragmentary treatise on the tending of cattle.
1903
#12535
Une version syriaque des aphorismes d'Hippocrate. Texte et traduction par H. Pognon. 2 vols.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
Edition of Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds arabe 6734, a Syriac manuscript copied on 10 October 1205 by a physician, probably a Jacobite or Melchite naned Behnam, but nothing in the codex indicates the author/…
1903
#13138
Le livre de l’art du traitement de Najm ad-Dyn Mahmoud: Texte, traduction, glossaires, précédés d’un essai sur la pharmacopée arabe par Pierre Paul Emile Guigues.
Arabic text, with a French translation, of parts 4-5 of “Al-Kitab al-hawi fi ‘ilm al-tadawi” by Najm al-Din Mahmud. Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi was a Persian physician from Shiraz. His major composition wa…
1904
#6535
English medicine in the Anglo-Saxon times.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1903.
1904 –1905
#8347
Die europäischen Übersetzungen aus dem Arabischen bis Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from medadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de at this link.
1905 –1908
#6767
Die Handschriften der antiken Aerzte. I. Teil: Hippokrates und Galenos. II. Teil: Die übrigen grieschischen Ärzte aßer Hippokates und Galenos. Bericht über den Stand des interakademischen Corpus medicorum antiquorum und Erster Nachtrag zu den in den Abhandlungen 1905 und 1906 veröffentlichten Katalogen. . . .
A catalogue of surviving manuscripts of texts and translations of classical Greek physicians. Republished in book form, 1905-08. Available online from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link. Supplemented by: Gree…