bi3mw > 22-07-2021, 02:42 PM
(22-07-2021, 12:51 PM)RenegadeHealer Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Our modern distinction between a monolithic work and a compilation is anachronistic and unhelpful, when applied to premodern long-form works of literature.I do not consider the distinction of text genres in the literature of the Middle Ages to be anachronistic at all. It is, so to speak, the "daily bread" of the medievalist. There are novels (Arthus novel or courtly novels), poetry and sung poetry, novellas (Decamerone), compendiums (Compendium medicinae) and much more. One can distinguish these works already individually in "monolithic" or "compilations". Their abridged, revised or rewritten versions can appear in compilations that deal with several independent themes. It is therefore legitimate to ask oneself which genre of text and in which form one is dealing with.
MarcoP > 22-07-2021, 04:03 PM
Quote:An iatrosophion, widely used in Byzantine and Ottoman Greece, was a physician's notebook of recipes and treatments or was the collective compendium of classical and Byzantine medical and pharmacological texts consulted in hospital settings. Some iatrosophia included medical cures and drugs, but also spells, exorcisms, magic, astrology, and practical advice.
Quote:Iatrosophion compiled and used by Greek healers and practitioners of folk medicine, perhaps including local clerics, from the 16th to 18th centuries, possibly in Crete. The volume is foliated in part, but largely paginated (pp. 1-815). There are many missing and unnumbered pages. Decorative head pieces in the earlier parts of the manuscript. The text is comprised of approximately 70 sections, written in at least five different hands. This volume contains extracts from Greek medical treatises and information on botanical remedies (with a few color illustrations of plants), pharmacology, popular cures, astrological medicine (with charts), lists of "good" and "bad" days for phlebotomy, magical script, Cabalistic symbols, Zodiacal signs, pseudo-Solomonic pentacles, invocations of angels and demons, amuletic texts, spells, and prognostications.
Quote:This manuscript, illustrated with numerous colored pen drawings, originated in a secular environment in Southern Germany or in Switzerland around the middle of the 15th century. It describes the signs of the zodiac, the planets, the four temperaments, and the four seasons regarding their influence on human health. This is followed by dietary guidelines primarily regarding bloodletting, but also regarding eating, drinking, sleeping, waking, resting and moving, as well as, in concrete terms, regarding bathing (illustration p. 101) or defecating (illustration p. 120). Most likely an amateur doctor with an interest in astronomy, from the Southern region of Germany, wrote the original text around 1400 and assembled it into a compendium.
bi3mw > 22-07-2021, 06:12 PM
(22-07-2021, 04:03 PM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think that also a housebook / hausbuch could be a good parallel. For instance, see the table of contents of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Yes, iatromathematical house books are a good comparison. Even if they were created later in the 15th century, there were probably already precursors of them.
Quote:About the term "house book":
House books are manuscripts of scholars and known since the end of the 15th century. They are collective manuscripts with professional or specialized content.
Anton > 22-07-2021, 09:01 PM
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bi3mw > 23-07-2021, 11:09 AM
(22-07-2021, 11:20 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There are no 'botanical' illustrations of plants, no cosmos, no portraits of the Planetes; there are no celestial or bathing nymphsAt least the seven planets according to Ptolemy are presented ("Von den 7 Planeten nach Ptolemäus"). About bathing there is also a chapter ("Vom Baden") if one really sees the nymphs as bathers.
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