A Late Middle English Remedy-book (MS Wellcome 542, ff. 1r-20v): A Scholarly Edition
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A Late Middle English Remedy-book (MS Wellcome 542, ff. 1r-20v): A Scholarly Edition
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The present edition offers the diplomatic transcription of MS Wellcome 542, housing a late Middle English hitherto unedited remedy-book based on the medical lore of Hippocrates, Socrates and Galen.
A glossary, notes and introduction also accompany the edition. The introduction has been conceived as a state of the art of this scientific treatise, and deals with the textual transmission of the text, a codicological/palaeographic description together with the scribe's dialect and idiolect. The edition therefore conforms itself as a primary source for research not only in Historical Linguistics but also in other related fields such as the History of Medicine or Ecdotics. A Late Middle English Remedy-book (MS Wellcome 542, ff.
Book Details
- Authors: Javier Calle Martín, Miguel Angel Castao-Gil
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- eBook ISBN: 9783035198713, 3035198713
- Print ISBN: 9783034313698, 3034313691
- Other ISBNs: 3035105413, 9783035105414
