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Lawn, Brian, The Salernitan Questions: An Introduction to the History of Medieval and Renaissance Problem Literature, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963, xiv + 240 pp. + [1] taula.

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- C o n t e n t s
Woodcut from the Speculator Broadside. Nürnberg, c. 1501 Frontispiece
Introduction xi
I. Traditional, pre-Salernitan, Latin, Scientific, and Medical Questions 1
II. The Beginnings of the Scientific Renaissance in south Italy. The of Adelard, and the Prose Salernitan Questions 16
III. The 40
IV. The Spread of Salernitan to Chartres, England, and Paris 50
V. Scientific Question Literature in Spain and at the Court of Frederick II 73
VI. Salernitan Questions in Scholastic Disputations of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries 81
VII. Medieval and Renaissance Translations of Greek problems, and some fourteenth- and fifteenth-century collections of Natural Questions 92
VIII. Dietrich Ulsen and the Speculator Broadside 113
IX. Sixteenth-Century Books of Problems 129
X. The Treatment of the Questions in the Seventeenth Century 141

- T h e T e x t s
I. The Speculator Broadside. Text and translation 158
II. The Questiones phisicales. Text of the remainder of this poem, not used by Ulsen, with translation 170
Notes on the Speculator 178
Notes on the Questiones 194
Additional Notes 205

- B i b l i o g r a p h i e s
Abbreviations 209
I. Bibliographical references 209
II. Journals and Collections 209
Bibliography
I. Primary Sources 211
II. Secondary, Historical Sources 218

- I n d e x e s
I. Index of Manuscripts 225
II. Subject Index for the Questiones phisicales 228
III. General Index 231
Matèries
Història de la medicina
Universitats i ensenyament
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Recensions:
* W. Pagel, a Medical History, 8 (1964), 87-89, en accés lliure a http:/​/​www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/​articlerender.fcgi ...
Traducció italiana considerablement ampliada i revisada: Lawn (1969), I quesiti salernitani ...
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The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).