- Articella
The Articella is a collection of medical treatises bounded together in one volume that was used mainly as textbook and reference manual between the
13th and the 16th centuries. In medieval times, several versions of this anthology circulated in manuscript form among medical students. Between1476 and1534 ,print ed editions of the Articella were also published in severalEurope an cities.The collection grew around a synthetic exposition of classical Greek medicine written in
Baghdad byphysician andpolyglot Hunayn bin Ishaq , better known in the West as Ioannitius. His synthesis was in turn based onGalen 's "Ars Medica" ("Techne iatrike") and thus became known in Europe as "Isagoge Ioannitii ad Tegni Galieni" ("Hunayn's Introduction to the Art of Galen").In the mid-13th century, the emergence of formal medical education in several European universities fueled a demand for comprehensive textbooks. Instructors from the influential
Schola Medica Salernitana popularized the practice of binding other treatises together with their manuscript copies of the Isagogue. These includedHippocrates ’ Prognostics as well as his Aphorisms, Theophilus’ De Urinis, Philaterus’ De Pulsibus and many other classic works.ee also
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Medieval medicine References:
* Cornelius O'Boyle. Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Copies of the "Ars Medicine": A Checklist and Contents Descriptions of the Manuscripts. Articella Studies: Texts and Interpretations in Medieval and Renaissance Medical Teaching, no. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, and CSIC Barcelona, Department of History of Science, 1998.
* Jon Arrizabalaga. The "Articella" in the Early Press, c. 1476-1534. Articella Studies: Texts and Interpretations in Medieval and Renaissance Medical Teaching, no. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, and CSIC Barcelona, Department of History of Science, 1998.
* Papers of the Articella Project Meeting, Cambridge, December 1995. Articella Studies: Texts and Interpretations in Medieval and Renaissance Medical Teaching, no. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, and CSIC Barcelona, Department of History of Science, 1998.
External links
* [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medieval/articella.html Medieval manuscripts - Articella]
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