muspeccoll: This week’s manuscript fragment comes to us from France and dates to around 1400.
muspeccoll:This week’s manuscript fragment comes to us from France and dates to around 1400. The recto contains a list of chapter headings such as “De apostematibus homoplatis et brachium” and “De apostematibus pectoris ut de bubonis in quo fit transgressio de mortalitate.” Although our database has this text identified as a fragment of Averroes or Galen, I was able to find corresponding chapter headings in the work of Guy de Chauliac, physician to popes Clement VI, Innocent VI, and Urban V, and an early scientific observer of the Black Death. This fragment is probably from his Chirugia magna, a compilation of his medical knowledge that became an important handbook in the later Middle Ages.- KelliColumbia, University of Missouri, Ellis Library, Special Collections, Fragmenta Manuscripta 123 -- source link
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