Description
Book SynopsisFifty-five catalogued manuscripts include major religious works and medical writing - on uroscopy, surgery, bloodletting and pestilence.Major religious works among the fifty-five manuscripts indexed in this handlist include a thirteenth-century copy of the
Ancrene Riwle, Rolle's
Forme of Living and the English translation of his
Emendatio vitae, the
Apocalypse of Jesus Christ, Mirk's
Festial, the
Pilgrimage of the Soul, the
Seven Points of True Love and Everlasting Wisdom and the apparently unique English translation of the Wycliffite
Rosarium theologie. Medical writing is also well represented, with a number of extensive compilations which also contain medical recipes. Uroscopy texts include the
Practica urinarum and the shorter and the longer versionsof Henry Daniel's
Liber uricrisiarum; other important medical texts are the first book of Guy de Chauliac's
Chirurgia magna, the shorter English version of John of Burgundy's treatise on pestilence and two versionsof the bloodletting treatise attributed to Henry of Winchester.KARI ANNE RAND SCHMIDT is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Oslo.
