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Tavormina, M. Teresa (ed.), Sex, Aging, and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52, Its Texts, Language, and Scribe, Tempe, Ariz., Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies, 292), 2006, xxvi + 930 pp., il.

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Trinity College MS R.14.52 consists of a collection of late fifteenth-century vernacular medical and scientific texts, most of which are translations from Latin texts and some of which are unique to this manuscript. Sex, Aging and Death contains a selection of these texts, most of which are appearing in print for the first time. Texts include the pseudo-Baconian On Tarrying the Accidents of Age; a Middle English translation of De humana natura; an incomplete translation of Constantinus Africanus' De coitu; two extracts from the works of Francis Bacon, given as On the Prolongation of Life; an incomplete commentary on the Hippocratic Prognostics; The Sickness of Women, a gynaecological and obstetrical work extracted from Gilbertus Anglicus' Compendium medicine; a treatise on the plague translated from John of Burgundy's De epidemia; a collection of writings on astronomical instruments, including an extract from Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe; and finally, two English texts, The Seven Planets and The Seven Liberal Arts, the latter of which is a revised version of Linne R. Mooney's 1993 edition. Also included are lightly edited transcripts of two of the shorter, linking texts: a guide to phlebotomy and a list of eight remedies for ailments including dropsy, insomnia, and the 'flayn ars'. While texts have been edited individually by various editors, the overall effect is consistent. In addition to a general introduction, the volumes include comprehensive introductions to each text, discussing authorship, content, translation strategies, and editorial policy, as well as giving detailed explanatory notes. The usual critical apparatus is appended, including two comprehensive glossaries, covering both general terms and materia medica, a useful index of persons, places, and works, and a wide-ranging bibliography. Sex, Aging and Death is a well-edited and presented collection, affording a useful insight into the vernacularization of medicine in fifteenth-century England. [Laura Jose, Medium Aevum, Spring-Summer, 2008]

Contents:
* List of Illustrations (ix)
* Contributors (x)
* Preface (xii)
* Abbreviations (xxiv)

Part I: Essays
* 1 Description of the manuscript / Päivi Pahta (1)
* 2 Contents, unique treatises and related manuscripts / Patricia D. Kurtz & Linda E. Voigts (19)
* 3 The scribe / Linne R. Mooney (55)
* 4 The dialect of the Hammond scribe / Lister M. Matheson (65)
* 5 Translation strategies: De spermate and De humana natura / Päivi Pahta & María José Carrillo Linares (95)

Part II: Texts
* Supplementary Text I: The Contents List (119)
* 6 Everest - Tavormina (2006), "On Tarrying the Accidents of Age ..." · 133-248
* 7 De humana natura / ed. María José Carrillo Linares (249)
* Supplementary Text II: Liber fleobotomie (277)
* 8 Constantinus Africanus: De coitu / ed. Lister M. Matheson (287)
* 9 Tavormina (2006), "Roger Bacon: Two Extracts on the ..." · 327-372
* 10 Tavormina (2006), "Commentary on the Hippocratic ..." · 373-454
* 11 Green - Mooney (2006), "The Sickness of Women" · 455-568
* 12 John of Burgundy: Treatises on plague / ed. Lister M. Matheson (569)
* Supplementary Text III: Eight Manners of Medicines (603)
* 13 Texts concerning scientific instruments / ed. Edgar S. Laird (607)
* 14 The seven planets / ed. María José Carrillo Linares (681)
* 15 The seven liberal arts / ed. Linne R. Mooney (701)
* Appendices and glossaries: Accidence (739) - Word-Frequency Lists (743) - Manuscripts Cited (761) - General Glossary (767) - Materia Medica (853) - Persons, Places, and Works (885) - Bibliography (897)
* Index (925)

Matèries

Medicina
Anglès
Manuscrits
Astronomia i astrologia
Lèxic
Il·lustracions