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Green, Monica H., "Medical Manuscripts from the Long Twelfth Century", Manuscripts on My Mind: News from the Vatican Film Library, 8 (2013), 11.
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- A group of medical historians and paleographers has teamed up informally to create a "Medicine in the Long 12th Century Working Group." More than 500 extant manuscripts from this period have been identified as containing Latin medical texts. Adding in citations from 12th-century catalogs, we have at least 650 witnesses to the “common library” that made up learned medical knowledge throughout Europe in the long 12th century: around 150 different texts in circulation, in some cases found in a single copy but in others in several dozens. A revolution in medicine did indeed happen in this period. But it was not a “revolution” based on wholesale absorption of new work made suddenly available in Latin from Arabic. Nor was it a "revolution" based entirely at the southern Italian city of Salerno, which has long been centrally featured in narratives about medicine in this period. This project aims to use the collected expertise of the contributors, and the ever-growing availability of digitized manuscripts (many made freely available on the Internet by their holding libraries), to create a comprehensive picture of medicine in this crucial period of change. Our hope is that many subsidiary projects will emerge out of this, whether they be studies of individual texts, centers for copying manuscripts or studying medicine, or larger questions about the modes or impacts of programs of medical and scientific translations.
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- https://www.academia.edu/4613362/Monica_H_Green_Med ...
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