Liber Aurelii ‘On Acute Diseases’

The Liber Aurelii is a Latin medical text apparently compiled in Late Antiquity. It is the first part of a largely therapeutic two-volume work, which treats acute diseases. The author’s name is fictitious and unknown to the most original manuscripts. The work is thus a (rather successful) anonymous...

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description The Liber Aurelii is a Latin medical text apparently compiled in Late Antiquity. It is the first part of a largely therapeutic two-volume work, which treats acute diseases. The author’s name is fictitious and unknown to the most original manuscripts. The work is thus a (rather successful) anonymous compilation, which uses primarily methodic sources, especially Soranus of Ephesus (2nd century AD). Not least due to the textual tradition’s complexity, only a single late manuscript has so far been printed in 1847. In addition to the direct transmission represented by five manuscripts, there is an abridged and slightly revised version in nine manuscripts. Gariopontus, an eleventh century physician, also quoted almost the entire text in his still unedited Passionarius, sometimes in slightly revised form. His exemplar was better than the archetype of the direct transmission. The present edition reconstructs an archetype text of the direct transmission (approximately eighth century). On facing pages, the text forms of the abridged version and of Gariopontus are edited synoptically. The differences between the versions show how physicians of the High Middle Ages tried to make sense of the often corrupted text. The corrupted archetype text is only minimally interfered with in the edition; a special apparatus presents the editor’s suggestions for improvement. The unusual technical vocabulary of the text is made accessible by a glossary at the end of the edition.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1397942024-07-09T04:32:33Z Liber Aurelii ‘On Acute Diseases’ Roelli, Philipp Liber Aurelii Critical edition History of medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine The Liber Aurelii is a Latin medical text apparently compiled in Late Antiquity. It is the first part of a largely therapeutic two-volume work, which treats acute diseases. The author’s name is fictitious and unknown to the most original manuscripts. The work is thus a (rather successful) anonymous compilation, which uses primarily methodic sources, especially Soranus of Ephesus (2nd century AD). Not least due to the textual tradition’s complexity, only a single late manuscript has so far been printed in 1847. In addition to the direct transmission represented by five manuscripts, there is an abridged and slightly revised version in nine manuscripts. Gariopontus, an eleventh century physician, also quoted almost the entire text in his still unedited Passionarius, sometimes in slightly revised form. His exemplar was better than the archetype of the direct transmission. The present edition reconstructs an archetype text of the direct transmission (approximately eighth century). On facing pages, the text forms of the abridged version and of Gariopontus are edited synoptically. The differences between the versions show how physicians of the High Middle Ages tried to make sense of the often corrupted text. The corrupted archetype text is only minimally interfered with in the edition; a special apparatus presents the editor’s suggestions for improvement. The unusual technical vocabulary of the text is made accessible by a glossary at the end of the edition. 2024-07-09T04:32:32Z 2024-07-09T04:32:32Z 2024-07-08T16:25:38Z 2021 book ONIX_20240708_9783777222035_261 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/91924 9783777222035 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/139794 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/91924/1/206131.pdf Hiersemann 10.36191/9783777222035 10.36191/9783777222035 b291db82-a9c9-46ca-9cf3-dc2969c9a4de c9fff097-a6b0-4c97-afcd-d033f5f27a3d 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 9783777222035 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Stuttgart 10BP12_206131 Open Access Books Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation 10.13039/501100001711 open access
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Liber Aurelii ‘On Acute Diseases’
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