Next week I am giving a paper on medical letters in Oslo at the workshop Medical Additions & Healing Practices in the Early Middle Ages.… Read More »20: The Fun of Old Fragments (Munich BSB clm 29688)
Tim Hertogh writes… This manuscript of the month, Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M. p. th. f. 46, is more than a witness to medieval medicine; its parchment… Read More »19: Recycling Manuscript Margins for Amulets (Würzburg, M.p.th.f. 46)
Claire Burridge writes… A ninth-century collection of canon law may not seem like the type of environment in which you would find medical recipes… And… Read More »18: Medicine in a Legal Pad (Würzburg UB M.p.th.f.146
Meg Lega writes… As we leave summer behind us, I hope you took advantage of sage and rue, and wild celery and grape flowers! I… Read More »17: Summer Drinks (Barcelona Ripoll 59)
Carine van Rhijn writes… The project reached an important milestone this summer: at the end of June, we published the first version of the Handlist… Read More »Launching the Handlist
It’s that time of year again – the month of CEMLM’s annual meeting! This year we met in Oslo, where Prof Ildar Garipzanov’s project on… Read More »CEMLM @ MINiTEXTS Oslo
Jeff Doolittle writes… As we continue our exposition of the many new manuscripts containing medicine identified by the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine, we… Read More »16: Drugs, Veterinary Medicine… & Cosmetics (Einsiedeln 29)
Carine van Rhijn writes… The manuscript of this month, Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 751, is a big, well-known medical compendium dating from the ninth century. It… Read More »15: Healing with Vultures (St Gallen SB Cod. Sang. 751)
James Palmer writes… For this month’s ‘Manuscript of the Month’, I’m revisiting an old friend: St Gallen SB 225, a fascinating and odd late-eighth-century Carolingian… Read More »14: St Gallen SB Cod. Sang. 225
Claire Burridge writes… We’re going to start the New Year by going back in time. Far back in time. So, no, this won’t be a… Read More »MMOTM 13: Verona, BC, MS XVII(15)