c. 830 ANONYMOUS

Sammelband: Vita Sancti Symeonis; Physiologus latinus; Fredegarii Chronicon; Sermo S. Effrem; etc. Burgerbibliothek Codex Bongarsianus 318.

The earliest surviving illustrated manuscript version of the Physiologus. Digital facsimile of the codex from e-codices.unifr.ch at this link. This 9th century codex, from the Rheims scriptorium, was first published i…

GMN 9042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11221

1467 MAURUS, Rabanus [Hrabanus; Rhabanus] (780 – 856)

De sermonum proprietate sive Opus de universo.

Also known as De rerum naturis. This dictionary or encyclopedia is the earliest known printed book to include a section dealing with medicine, and this brief section, Book 18, Chap. V concerning medicine and diseases,…

GMN 2190 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1380

1475 MEGENBERG, Konrad von (1309 – 1374)

Buch der Natur.

The first printed book to contain illustrations of animals, and the first notable scientific book in German. It discusses animals, birds, fish, anatomy, physiology, plagues, the medicinal value of plants and stones, e…

GMN 276.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8810

1478 ALBERTUS MAGNUS, [Albert von Bollstädt] (1195 – 1280); CÓRDOBA, Fernándo de (Fernandus Cordubensis) (1425 – 1486)

De animalibus. Edited by Fernandus Cordubensis (Fernando de Córdoba).

Albertus was a Dominican monk and the most eminent naturalist of the 13th century; his work on animals contained a good deal of personal observation. He was the first to comment on virtually all of the writings of Ari…

GMN 276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8808

1482 THEOBALDUS (1050 – )

Physiologus de naturis duodecim animalium.

The earliest printed edition (circa 1482) of the Physiologus, a Christological natural historical work that originated in Late Antiquity, and remained popular through the Middle Ages. This edition, which was very wide…

GMN 8979 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11158

1491

Hortus sanitatis.

HORTUS SANITATIS

First edition of an herbal and general treatise on natural history which became very popular; based on the unusually large number of surviving copies in institutions it must have also been a bestseller. The plant illu…

GMN 1797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1481

1596 FREDERICK II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194 – 1250)

Reliqua librorum Friderici II. Imperatoris, De arte venandi cum avibus, cum Manfredi Regis additionibus. Ex membranis vetustis nunc primum edita. Albertus Magnus De falconibus, asturibus, & accipitribus.

Books I-II of De arte venandi cum avibus, edited by Marcus Welser from a very old, incomplete defective manuscript, which lacked Books III-IV. More than a dissertation on hunting, this work is considered the first zoo…

GMN 7117 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9284

1889 LAUCHERT, Friedrich (1863 – 1944)

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.

GMN 9041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11220

1916 –1920 ALBERTUS MAGNUS, [Albert von Bollstädt] (1195 – 1280); STADLER, Hermann (1861 – 1921)

De animalibus libri xxvi. Nach der Cölner Urschrift, herausgegeben von Hermann Stadler. 2 vols. (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters 15-16).

GMN 8562 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10739

1928 AL QAZWĪNĪ, Hamdullāh al-Mustaufī (1280 – 1334)

The zoological section of the Nuzhatu-l-Qulūb of Hamdullāh Al-Mustaufī Al-Qazwīnī. Edited and translated by John Stephenson.

GMN 8532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10709

1936 SBORDÓNE, Francecsco (1911 – 1983)

Physiologus. Ed. F. Sbordóne.

Physiologus, a didactic Christian text, is thought to have been written or compiled in Greek by an unknown author in Alexandria, 200-275 CE. It describes a "hodgepodge" of animals, real and imaginery, with the fig tre…

GMN 8978 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11157

1939 DERENBOURG, Hartwig (1844 – 1908); RENAUD, Henri-Paul-Joseph (1881 – 1945)

Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial. Vol. 2, Fascicule 2: Médecine et histoire naturelle. Compiled by Hartwig Derenbourg, edited by Henri Paul Joseph Renaud.

GMN 8527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10704

1943 WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942); FREDERICK II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194 – 1250); FYFE, F. Marjorie

The art of falconry, being the De arte venandi cum avibus of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen.

English translation of the six-book version of Frederick's work, edited, with numerous appendices, illustrations, and an annotated bibliography of ancient, medieval and modern falconry, by Casey A. Wood and F. Marjori…

GMN 9352 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11534

1971 SEZGIN, Fuat (1924 – )

Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 3. Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde bis ca. 430 H.

GMN 6510.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8073

1992 FOUILLOY, Hugues de (Hugo de Folieto) (1100 – 1172); CLARK, Willene B. (1932 – )

The medieval book of birds: Hugh of Fouilloy's Aviarium. Edition, translation and commentary by Willene B. Clark.

GMN 7410 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9582

1999 ALBERTUS MAGNUS, [Albert von Bollstädt] (1195 – 1280); KITCHELL, Kenneth F. (1947 – ); RESNICK, Irven Michael (1952 – )

Albertus Magnus, On animals: A medieval summa zoologica. Translated and annotated by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. and Irven Michael Resnick. 2 vols.

GMN 8563 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10740

2006 TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – ); GIVENS, Jean A.; REEDS, Karen M.

Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 1200-1550.

Avista Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art Volume 5.

GMN 7154 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9321

2008 WISPELWEY, Berend

Biographical index of the Middle Ages. 2 vols.

Contains 130,000 very brief biographical notes compiled from nearly 200 references (which are cited) on roughly 95,000 people from Europe and the Middle East during the 1000 years of the Middle Ages. The text is searc…

GMN 8234 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10410

2008 HAMEL, Christopher Francis Rivers de (1950 – ); BARBER, Richard William (1941 – )

Liber bestiarum. MS Bodley 764. Commentary by Christopher de Hamel and translation by Richard Barber. 2 vols.

Full color facsimile of the illuminated manuscript with translation and commentary in an accompanying volume. The two volumes boxed. The translation was originally published by the Folio Society in 1992, and the Boyde…

GMN 11624 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13824

2009 ANONYMOUS; CURLEY, Michael J.

Physiologus: A medieval book of nature lore. Translated by Michael J. Curley.

First published 1979, with a very informative introduction and notes. The paperback edition (2009) contains an extensive supplementary note discussing scholarship relating to Physiologus since 1979.

GMN 9040 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11219

2010 CONTADINI, Anna

Arab painting: Text and image in illustrated Arabic manuscripts. Edited by Anna Contadini.

GMN 8367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10543

2011 CONTADINI, Anna; BAKHSHOOA GONDISHAPOORI, (Bukhtishu, Bukht-Yishu)

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…

GMN 7100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9267

2013 ABERTH, John (1963 – )

An environmental history of the Middle Ages: The crucible of nature.

GMN 7618 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9790

2015 PETRUS HISPANUS, Pope John XXI (Pedro Hispano; Peter of Spain) (1226 – 1277); SÁNCHEZ, Francisca Navarro

Peter of Spain, Questiones super libro De animalibus Aristotelis. Critical edition with introduction, edited by Francisca Navarro Sánchez.

GMN 9315 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11497

2015 DEROLEZ, Albert (1934 – )

The making and meaning of the Liber Floridus: A study of the original manuscript, Ghent, University Library, MS 92.

"The Liber Floridus (1121), composed, written and illustrated by Canon Lambert of Saint-Omer, is the earliest illustrated encyclopedic compilation of the Latin West. Its autograph (Ghent, University Library, MS 92), a…

GMN 9716 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11903