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Sciència.cat DB bib34082 (22 / December / 2024)

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Harrington, Marjorie, "Science, Medicine, Prognostication: MS Digby 86 as a Household Almanac", dins: Fein, Susanna (ed.), Interpreting MS Digby 86: A Trilingual Book from Thirteenth-Century, Worcestershire, Boydell & Brewer - York Medieval Press (Manuscript Culture in the British Isles), 2019, pp. 55-72.

Resum: Among the least studied of Oxford, BodL, MS Digby 86's wide-ranging contents is a compendium of utilitarian texts on fols. 1r–65r.¹ This section of the trilingual household miscellany is concerned simultaneously with care for the soul and for the body, containing psalms, prayers, catechetic material, experimenta, medical recipes and guides for predicting the future by one's dreams or by the phases of the moon. Within this section, the scribe-compiler creates clusters of scientific, medical and prognosticatory material. Unlike the more literary sections of the manuscript, the scribe returns to these clusters to insert additional medical recipes and prognostications in...
Matèries: Astronomia i astrologia
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Història de la ciència
URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvd58s97