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Luft, Diana, Medieval Welsh Medical Texts. Volume One: The Recipes, Cardiff, University of Wales Press (Medieval), 2020, 640 pp.
- Resum
- This volume presents the first critical edition and translation of the corpus of medieval Welsh medical recipes traditionally ascribed to the Physicians of Myddfai. These offer practical treatments for a variety of everyday conditions such as toothache, constipation and gout. The recipes have been edited from the four earliest collections of Welsh medical texts in manuscript, which date from the late fourteenth century. A series of notes provides sources and analogues for the recipes, demonstrating their relationship with the European medical tradition. The identification of herbal ingredients in the recipes is based on pre-modern plant-name glossaries rather than modern dictionaries, and has led to new interpretations of many of the recipes. Comprehensive glossaries allow the reader to find any recipe based on the ingredients and equipment used in it or the condition treated. This new interpretation of these texts clearly shows that they are not unique, but rather form part of the medical tradition that was common throughout Europe during the Middle Ages.
Conté:
I Introduction
1. The Nature of the Corpus · 3
2. The Manuscripts · 11
2.1 British Library Additional 14912 (BLAdd) · 11
2.2 Cardiff 3.242 (Hafod 16, Card) · 12
2.3 Oxford Bodleian Rawlinson B 467 (Rawl) · 12
2.4 Oxford Jesus College 111 (the Red Book of Hergest, RBH) · 13
2.5 The Relationship between the Manuscripts · 16
3. Sources and Analogues · 19
4. The Language of the Texts · 21
5. Editorial Principles · 27
6. Translation Method · 33
II The Texts
Book 1 (Pedeir teirton yssyd) · 55
Book 2 (Rac mann) · 69
Book 3 (Gan borth Duw goruchel) · 79
Book 4 (Rac y dannoed) · 93
Book 5 (Llyma eli mawrweirthwc) · 111
Book 6 (Ef a ddylir gollwng gwaet) · 163
Book 7 (Wyth rann a dyly bot ym pob dyn) · 191
Book 8 (Rac y parlis) · 203
Book 9 (Meddeginyaeth rac pob ryw ddolur) · 233
Book 10 (E llyfyr hwnn a wnaeth Galien ac Ypocras) · 267
Unique Collections · 289
Notes to the Translation · 310
Further Notes on the Recipes · 339
III Indexes
Index 1 Welsh Vocabulary · 423
Index 2 Plant Names · 445
Index 3 Other Ingredients · 521
Index 4 Instruments, Measures, Treatments · 537
Index 5 Parts of the Body · 543
Index 6 Conditions · 549
IV Appendices
Appendix 1 Manuscript Contents · 569
Appendix 2 Plant-name Profiles · 573
Bibliography · 591
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- URL
- https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/medieval-welsh-medical-t ...
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