Meg Leja writes… Our study this month takes up the fundamental codicological question of why. Why do medical texts appear on certain pages in a… Read More »22: Why Is This Here? (St Gallen SB Cod. Sang. 124)
Jeff Doolittle writes… In this post, we are going to look at a tenth-century manuscript fragment in the Beneventan script, which is among the many… Read More »21: A Fragment of the Aphorisms (Barcelona ACA Frag. 33)
James Palmer writes… Next week I am giving a paper on medical letters in Oslo at the workshop Medical Additions & Healing Practices in the… 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 Leja 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)