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Welcome to the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine!

CEMLM is a British Academy-funded project establishing a new catalogue of Latin medical manuscripts from before the Salerno School revolution of the eleventh century. Hundreds of medical manuscripts have been identified that are not included in the standard catalogues by Beccaria (1956) or Wickersheimer (1965), potentially transforming our understanding of medieval medicine. We will provide:

  • I: A working handlist of uncatalogued manuscripts leading to a full new catalogue
  • II: New critical editions of texts
  • III: A new team-authored “Introduction to Early Medieval Medicine”
  • 15: Healing with Vultures