Lylye of medicynes: an edition of the fifteenth-century translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Lilium medicinae

This is an edition of the Middle English Lylye of Medicynes, a fifteenth-century translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Latin Lilium Medicinae (completed in 1305). The Lylye is contained in Oxford Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1505 as a sole text. Although there are multiple witnesses in Latin, there are...

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Main Author: Connelly, Erin
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33811/
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description This is an edition of the Middle English Lylye of Medicynes, a fifteenth-century translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Latin Lilium Medicinae (completed in 1305). The Lylye is contained in Oxford Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1505 as a sole text. Although there are multiple witnesses in Latin, there are no other known Middle English witnesses of this text. The Lylye is arranged in a ‘head to toe’ format (beginning with diseases of the head and proceeding downward) with accompanying guidelines for diagnosis and prognosis. Although the text does contain some medical theory and aetiology (based on thought from Arabic medicine, specifically Ibn Sīnā, and Antiquity, predominantly Galen and Hippocrates), it is mainly comprised of a large volume of medicinal recipes and treatments.
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spelling nottingham-338112025-02-28T13:29:49Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33811/ Lylye of medicynes: an edition of the fifteenth-century translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Lilium medicinae Connelly, Erin This is an edition of the Middle English Lylye of Medicynes, a fifteenth-century translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Latin Lilium Medicinae (completed in 1305). The Lylye is contained in Oxford Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1505 as a sole text. Although there are multiple witnesses in Latin, there are no other known Middle English witnesses of this text. The Lylye is arranged in a ‘head to toe’ format (beginning with diseases of the head and proceeding downward) with accompanying guidelines for diagnosis and prognosis. Although the text does contain some medical theory and aetiology (based on thought from Arabic medicine, specifically Ibn Sīnā, and Antiquity, predominantly Galen and Hippocrates), it is mainly comprised of a large volume of medicinal recipes and treatments. 2016-07-12 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by_nc_nd https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33811/1/Lylye%20of%20Medicynes_PhD%20Thesis_Erin%20Connelly_2016.pdf Connelly, Erin (2016) Lylye of medicynes: an edition of the fifteenth-century translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Lilium medicinae. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Medicinal Recipes Medieval Medicine Bernard of Gordon Lilium Medicinae
spellingShingle Medicinal Recipes
Medieval Medicine
Bernard of Gordon
Lilium Medicinae
Connelly, Erin
Lylye of medicynes: an edition of the fifteenth-century translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Lilium medicinae
title Lylye of medicynes: an edition of the fifteenth-century translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Lilium medicinae
title_full Lylye of medicynes: an edition of the fifteenth-century translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Lilium medicinae
title_fullStr Lylye of medicynes: an edition of the fifteenth-century translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Lilium medicinae
title_full_unstemmed Lylye of medicynes: an edition of the fifteenth-century translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Lilium medicinae
title_short Lylye of medicynes: an edition of the fifteenth-century translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Lilium medicinae
title_sort lylye of medicynes: an edition of the fifteenth-century translation of bernard of gordon’s lilium medicinae
topic Medicinal Recipes
Medieval Medicine
Bernard of Gordon
Lilium Medicinae
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33811/