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Tavormina, M. Teresa, "The Middle English Letter of Ipocras", English Studies, 88/6 (2007), 632-652.
- Resum
- In a recent volume of English Studies, George R. Keiser sorted out the texts of several verse prologues to Middle English medical treatises, including one that usually invokes the authority of a treatise sent by Hippocrates (Ipocras) to “Caesar” and that can be found in several variants, including prose forms. The text, or more exactly, texts introduced by this prologue commonly consist of two short prose treatises on the humours and uroscopy, followed by a medical recipe collection. Like its prologue, this small suite of texts appears in various combinations and forms. As Keiser points out, the components of the suite have analogues and possible sources in medieval French and Latin medical writing, where scholars often refer to them as the Lettre d'Hippocrate, based on the attribution to Ipocras in the prologue. The goal of this essay is to build on Keiser's work by untangling some of the relationships among the versions of the humoural and uroscopic texts that normally follow the Ipocras/Caesar prologue, as well as offering editions of the prose versions of the prologue, the humoural and uroscopic tracts, and a separate but related longer uroscopy. For ease of future comparative study of these English texts and their French and Latin analogues or sources, I shall refer to the cluster of four texts (prologue, humoural tract, uroscopy, recipe collection) as the Letter of Ipocras, though it must be acknowledged from the start that there is a good deal of fluidity in the shape and content of the Letter, both in English and in its French forms. A detailed comparative analysis of the recipe collections that often follow the uroscopy is beyond the scope of this article, but may be aided by the materials presented here.
- Matèries
- Medicina
Anglès
Poesia didàctica i moral
Oralitat i escriptura
Medicina - Farmacologia
- URL
- http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0013838 ...
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