1471 BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS (1203 – 1272)
De proprietatibus rerum.
A condensed encyclopedia of what was then understood by natural science. The work was probably written about the middle of the 13th century. It was one of the most widely read scientific works of the Middle Ages. Caxt…
GMN 91 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/52
1483 JACME, Jean [Johannes Jacobi] ( – 1384)
Regimen contra pestilentiam [English] Treatise on the Pestilence.
The earliest medical work printed in English. It was published without printer's name or date, but has been attributed to the press of William Machlinia, in London, and estimated to have been published in 1483."Althou…
GMN 6812 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8975
c. 1490 LYDGATE, John (1370 – 1451)
Governayle of helthe. Add: John Lydgate, Medicina stomachi.
Though it's exact publication date is uncertain, this is the first medical publication issued in English by William Caxton, the first English printer, who set up the first English press in Westminster Abbey. Only two …
GMN 13042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15292
1492 JOHN OF GADDESDEN (1280 – 1361); SCYLLACIUS, Nicolaus (1464 – )
Rosa anglica practica medicinae. Ed: Nicolaus Scyllacius.
The first printed medical book of an Englishman. John of Gaddesden was a prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral and physician to Edward II. The work, to quote Garrison, “consists mainly of Arabist quackeries and countrysi…
GMN 2191 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1384
c. 1496 BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS (1203 – 1272); TREVISA, John (John of Trevisa) (1342 – 1402)
De proprietatibus rerum. English translation by John of Trevisa.
This English translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus was made by John of Trevisa in 1398. Bibliographically it is of interest as being one of the earliest books printed in London, one of the finest of the 15th century, …
GMN 92 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8784
1590 BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292); WILLIAMS, John ( – 1613)
Libellus Rogerii Baconi Angli doctissimi mathematici et medici, De retardandis senectutis accidentibus et de sensibus conservandis.... opera Johannis Williams Oxoniensis.
Translated into English by Richard Browne as The cure of old age and preservation of youth by Roger Bacon, a Franciscan frier (London, 1683). Digital facsimile of the 1683 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10962 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13158
1864 –1866 COCKAYNE, Thomas Oswald (1807 – 1873)
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…
GMN 6534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8141
1894 LANFRANC OF MILAN, Guido [Lanfranchi, Lanfranco, Lanfrancus Mediolanensis] (1250 – 1306); FLEISCHHACKER, Robert von (1855 – 1937)
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.
GMN 8939 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11117
1899 HENSLOW, George (1835 – 1925)
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.
GMN 6519 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8090
1904 PAYNE, Joseph Frank (1840 – 1910)
English medicine in the Anglo-Saxon times.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1903.
GMN 6535 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8142
1928 WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947); BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292); LITTLE, A. G. (1863 – 1945)
De retardatione accidentium senectutis cum aliis opusculis de rebus medicinalibus. Nunc primum ediderunt A. G. Little [and] E. Withington.
New edition edited from the 1590 printed edition in comparison with existing medieval manuscripts.
GMN 10950 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13146
1934 DAWSON, Warren Royal (1888 – 1968)
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.
GMN 8876 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11054
1936 JOHANNES DE MIRFELD ( – 1407); HARTLEY, Percival Horton-Smith (1867 – 1952); ALDRIDGE, Harold Richard
Johannes de Mirfeld of St. Bartholomew's Smithfield: His life and works, by Percival Horton-Smith Hartley and Harold Richard Aldridge.
Concerns the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with an English hospital. Includes the original Latin text and English translation of Mirfeld's works including his Breviary, a scrapbook of extra…
GMN 8456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10633
1952 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960); GRATTAN, John Henry Grafton (1878 – 1951)
Anglo-Saxon magic and medicine: Illustrated specially from the semi-pagan text "Lacnunga,"
GMN 6546 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8185
1963 BONSER, Wilfrid (1887 – 1971)
The medical background of Anglo-Saxon England: A study in history, psychology, and folklore.
GMN 6549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8193
1971 GUY DE CHAULIAC, (Guido de Cauliaco) (1298 – 1368); OGDEN, Margaret Sinclair (1909 – 1988)
The cyrurgie of Guy de Chauliac. I Text (E.E.T.S., 265) Edited by Margaret S. Ogden.
Middle English text of Guy de Chauliac's surgery.
GMN 8364 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10540
1971 USSERY, Huling Eakin (1898 – 1988)
Chaucer's physician: Medicine and literature in fourteenth-century England.
GMN 9439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11622
1971 OGDEN, Margaret Sinclair (1909 – 1988)
The Liber de diversis medicinis in the Thornton Manuscript (MS Lincoln Cathedral A.5.2). Edited by Margaret Sinclair Ogden. Revised reprint of 1938 edition.
Edition of a mid-15th century Middle English compilation of medicinal recipes, a manuscript that records how such recipes were passed on through several centuries.
GMN 12758 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15004
1975 SWANTON, Michael (1939 – )
Anglo-Saxon prose.
Includes translations of medical material. Third revised and enlarged edition (Gloucester, England: Choir Press, 2017).
GMN 8448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10625
1975 –1988 BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS (1203 – 1272); TREVISA, John (John of Trevisa) (1342 – 1402); SEYMOUR, M. C.; LIEGEY, Gabriel M.
On the properties of things: John Trevisa's translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus De proprietatibus rerum: A critical text, edited by M. C. Seymour and Gabriel M. Liegey. 3 vols.
See also M. C. Seymour et alii, Bartholomaeus Anglicus and his encyclopedia (Aldershot, England: Variorum, 1992).
GMN 8576 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10753
1975 CLARKE, Basil Fulford Lowther
Mental disorder in earlier Britain: Exploratory studies.
GMN 9430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11613
1978 GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven
Epidemic disease in fifteenth century England: The medical response and the demographic consequences.
GMN 13020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15270
1979 LAWN, Brian
The prose Salernitan questions, edited from a Bodleian manuscript (Auct. F.3.10). An anonymous collection dealing with science and medicine written by an Englishman c. 1200, with an Appendix of ten related collections. (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 5).
GMN 8353 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10529
1979 VOIGTS, Linda Ehrsam
Anglo-Saxon plant remedies and the Anglo-Saxons.
GMN 8559 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10736
1981 ANONYMOUS; ROWLAND, Beryl Winnifred (1918 – 2003)
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.
GMN 6981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9147
1981 MEANEY, Audrey Lilian (1931 – )
Anglo-Saxon amulets and curing stones.
GMN 8335 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10511
1990 HUNT, Anthony "Tony" B. (1944 – )
Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England: Introduction and texts.
GMN 8877 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11055
1993 CAMERON, Malcolm Lawrence (1918 – 2011)
Anglo-Saxon medicine.
GMN 8334 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10510
1996 GRASSI, Benevenuto [Benevenutus Grassus] (1100 – ); ELDREDGE, L. M. (1931 – )
The wonderful art of the eye: A critical edition of the Middle English translation of his De probatissima arte oculorum, edited by L. M. Eldredge.
GMN 9605 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11792
1997 GUYONVARC'H, Christian-Joseph (1926 – 2012)
Magie, médecine et divination chez les Celtes.
GMN 9344 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11526
1998 CAMERON, Malcolm Lawrence (1918 – 2011); D'ARONCO, M. A.
The Old English illustrated pharmacopoeia. British Library Cotton Vitellius C III. Edited by M. A. D'Aronco and M. L. Cameron. Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 27.
Macer glosses, Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, Macrobius, etc. 12th century. "A composite manuscript which comprises four parts, Parts 1 and 2 contain items in English, Part 3 contains Macrobius, "Saturnalia" and Part 4 i…
GMN 8889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11067
1999 DEAN, Ruth Josephine (1902 – 2003); BOULTON, Maureen Barry McCann (1948 – )
Anglo-Norman literature: A guide to texts and manuscripts.
This standard work catalogued nearly 1000 manuscripts, including medical texts.
GMN 12992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15241
2000 POLLINGTON, Stephen
Early English charms, plant lore, and healing.
GMN 9743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11931
2001 PETTIT, Edward
Anglo-Saxon remedies, charms, and prayers from British Library MS Harley 585: The ‘Lacnunga’. Edited and translated with introduction, appendices and commentary and bibliography by Edward Pettit. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of British Library MS Harley 585 from the British Library at this link.
GMN 8357 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10533
2001 HUNT, Anthony "Tony" B. (1944 – ); BENSKIN, Michael
Three receptaria from Medieval England: The languages of medicine in the fourteenth century. Edited by Tony Hunt with the collaboration of Michael Benskin.
An edition of just over 1500 medical receipts transmitted in three fourteenth-century compendia. The particular interest of these multilingual compilations lies in their date – earlier than most published receipts – a…
GMN 8875 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11053
2001 MUSCIO [MUSTIO; MOSCHION] (500 – ); TROTA OF SALERNO, (Trotula) (1150 – ); BARRATT, Alexandra A. T.
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…
GMN 12953 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15200
2002 VAN ARSDALL, Anne
Medieval herbal remedies. The old English herbarium and Anglo-Saxon medicine.
Edition and translation of the Old English Herbarium, British Library Cotton MS Vitellius C iii, the only illustrated Anglo-Saxon medical text, dating from about 1000 CE, containing information on 185 medicinal plants…
GMN 8879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11057
2006 GREEN, Monica Helen; GILBERTUS ANGLICUS, (Gilbert of England) (1180 – 1250); MOONEY, Linne R. (1949 – ); TAVORMINA, Mary Teresa (1951 – )
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…
GMN 8366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10542
2006 TAVORMINA, Mary Teresa (1951 – )
Sex, aging, & death in a medieval medical compendium. Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52, its texts, language and scribe. Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina.
GMN 11062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13258
2009 WOOLGAR, Chris M. (1956 – ); SERJEANTSON, Dale; WALDRON, T.
Food in medieval England: Diet and nutrition. Edited by C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron.
GMN 9258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11440
2010 GILBERTUS ANGLICUS, (Gilbert of England) (1180 – 1250); GETZ, Faye Marie (1952 – )
Healing and society in medieval England. A Middle English translation of the pharmaceutical writings of Gilbertus Anglicus. Edited by Faye Marie Getz.
GMN 8365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10541
2011 ODO OF MEUNG, Odo Magdunensis [Macer Floridus] (1050 – ); MARTIN, Javier Calle; MIRANDA-GARCIA, Antonio
The Middle English version of "De Viribus Herbarum (GUL MS Hunter 497, ff. 1r-92r): Edition and philological study by Javier Calle Martín and Antonio Miranda Garcia.
"Odo de Meung’s De Viribus Herbarum was one of the most widely known pieces of Fachliteratur in the latter part of Middle English, corroborated on account of the number of translations hitherto preserved in the differ…
GMN 9607 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11794
2012 HENRY OF HUNTINGDON (1088 – 1157)
Anglicus ortus. A verse herbal of the twelfth century. Edited and translated by Winston Black.
Written in Latin verse, the Anglicus ortus describes in considerable detail the medicinal uses of 160 plants. Edition based on collation of the five extant manuscripts of the text, plus parallel Latin text and English…
GMN 7140 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9307
2014 JOHN OF ARDERNE (1307 – 1380); JONES, Peter Murray; SANDGREN, Eva Lindqvist; SVENBERG, Torgny (1941 – )
De arte phisicale et de cirurgia
John of Arderne was the first English surgeon of note. The Stockholm manuscript preserved in the National Library of Stockholm is an illustrated vellum roll nearly 18 feet long and 15 inches wide written in England in…
GMN 5557 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6906
2014 TAVORMINA, Mary Teresa (1951 – )
Uroscopy in Middle English: A guide to the texts and manuscripts. Studies in medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd Series, Vol. 11.
GMN 11061 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13257
2014 BUTLER, Sara M.
Forensic medicine and death investigation in Medieval England.
GMN 12709 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14955
2015 TRACY, Larissa; DEVRIES, Kelly (1956 – )
Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture. Edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.
Essays on a wide range of aspects of wounds during the Middle Ages, particularly resulting from war and violence, but also those of Christ, from ca. 1000 CE to the 15th century in the West (England, Ireland, Scotland,…
GMN 9957 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12146
2016 WOOLGAR, Chris M. (1956 – )
The culture of food in England 1200-1500.
GMN 9257 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11439
2018 LELAMOUR, John (1350 – ); OLALLA, David Moreno
Lelamour herbal (MS Sloane 5, ff. 13r-57r): An annotated critical edition by David Moreno Olalla.
First critical edition of the sole extant copy of the Middle English herbal written in 1373 by John Lelamour, a Herefordian schoolmaster, who is otherwise unknown.
GMN 9604 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11791
2020 TAVORMINA, Mary Teresa (1951 – )
The dome of uryne: A reading edition of nine Middle English uroscopies.
"This volume contains nine of the most widely disseminated Middle English uroscopies, each of them short enough to be consulted quickly by practitioners and all of them commonly found in English medical miscellanies. …
GMN 12981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15229
