Research Catalog

Title

The dome of uryne : a reading edition of nine middle English uroscopies / edited by M. Teresa Tavormina.

Publication

• Oxford [England] : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2019.
• © 2019

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Additional Authors

• Tavormina, M. Teresa (Mary Teresa), 1951-
• Early English Text Society.

Description

cxxix, 136 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

This volume contains nine of the most widely disseminated Middle English uroscopies, each of them short enough to be consulted quickly by practitioners and all of them commonly found in English medical miscellanies. Practical in their orientation, they are grounded firmly in Galenic humoralism and derive directly and indirectly from canonical Latin uroscopies, along with the Arabic and Greek antecedents of the Latin tradition. Together they occur in over 120 manuscripts.0Despite the pervasive incidence of uroscopy in medieval medical manuscripts and medical practice, very few Middle English uroscopies have yet been edited, a gap that this edition seeks to reduce. Three of the texts edited are translated from widely circulated Latin originals; three are translated or adapted from a frequently copied French original (part of the Lettre d'Hippocrate); and three appear to be native English compositions. 0The Apparatus collates each text selectively against four to eight secondary witnesses, chosen primarily to represent different textual families for each item. The edition also contains a detailed Introduction; a Textual Commentary and a Medical Commentary; a detailed Glossary with special attention to medical vocabulary; and images of diagrams that accompany the texts.0As a group, these texts provide an overview of the best-known elements of English vernacular uroscopy and a precis of western uroscopic knowledge more generally. They also shed light on the day-to-day application of uroscopic diagnosis by ordinary practitioners in the later Middle Ages, and thus on one of the central arenas of healer/patient interaction in the period.

Series Statement

Early English Text Society. Original series ; 354

Uniform Title

Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; 354.

Alternative Title

Reading edition of nine middle English uroscopies

Subject

• To 1500
• Urine > Examination > History
• Urine > Analysis > History
• Medical literature > History > To 1500
• Medical literature
• Urine > Analysis
• Urine > Examination

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Bibliography -- Texts -- The Vade mecum suite -- White-red and white-brown token lists -- Texts of likely English origin -- Appendices -- Commentaries -- Glosary -- T Index of proper names

Call Number

JFE 20-4730

ISBN

• 0198845324
• 9780198845324

OCLC

1088524152

Title

The dome of uryne : a reading edition of nine middle English uroscopies / edited by M. Teresa Tavormina.

Publisher

Oxford [England] : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

© 2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Early English Text Society. Original series ; 354

Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; 354.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Tavormina, M. Teresa (Mary Teresa), 1951- editor.

Early English Text Society.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4730