The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XVII: Manuscripts in the Library of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge: 17 - Hardcover

Schmidt, Kari Anne Rand

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0859916111 ISBN 13: 9780859916110

Publisher: D.S.Brewer, 2001

Synopsis

Fifty-five catalogued manuscripts include major religious works and medical writing - on uroscopy, surgery, bloodletting and pestilence. Major religious works among the fifty-five manuscripts indexed in this handlist include a thirteenth-century copy of the Ancrene Riwle, Rolle's Forme of Living and the English translation of his Emendatio vitae, the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ, Mirk's Festial, the Pilgrimage of the Soul, the Seven Points of True Love and Everlasting Wisdom and the apparently unique English translation of the Wycliffite Rosarium theologie. Medical writing is also well represented, with a number of extensive compilations which also contain medical recipes. Uroscopy texts include the Practica urinarum and the shorter and the longer versionsof Henry Daniel's Liber uricrisiarum; other important medical texts are the first book of Guy de Chauliac's Chirurgia magna, the shorter English version of John of Burgundy's treatise on pestilence and two versionsof the bloodletting treatise attributed to Henry of Winchester. KARI ANNE RAND SCHMIDT is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Oslo.

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KARI ANNE RAND is Professor of Older English Language at the University of Oslo.

Edition details

• Publisher: D.S.Brewer
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859916111
• ISBN 13: 9780859916110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 196