Translation of Gilbertus Anglicus "The Sekenesse of Wymmen" [formerly identified as the "Liber Trotularis"]
TitleTranslation of Gilbertus Anglicus "The Sekenesse of Wymmen" [formerly identified as the "Liber Trotularis"]
ReferenceMS0175
Level of descriptionfonds
DateEarly Thirteenth Century
Admin./ biographical historyGilbertus Anglicus (Gilbert the Englishman, Gilbertus de Aquila, Gilbert de l'Egle) was a Physician and Author of the medical and surgical work, the "Compendium Medicinae". It was originally written in Latin with excerpts translated into New High German, Hebrew, Catalan and Middle English. The gynecological and obstetrical sections of the Middle English translation were excerpted and circulated widely as an independent text known in modern scholarship as "The Sickness of Women". Gilbert's "Compendium" covers all aspects of medicine and surgery as well as some of religious healing and the use of prayers and charms. It is divided into seven books dealing with fevers, the head, sense organs, organs of respiration, organs of digestion, the humours and in the last book diseases of women as well as advice for travellers, how to light fires and antidotes to poisons.
Trotula of Salerno:
Trotula lived in the eleventh, or twelth, century in Salerno, Southern Italy. She is thought to have occupied the Chair of Medicine at the School of Salerno. Trotula was one of the most famous physicians of that time, with her main interests in alleviating the suffering of women. Her most notable medical works were "Passionibus Mulierum Curandorum" (The Diseases of Women), known as Trotula Major, and "De Ornatu Mulierum" known as Trotula Minor. Trotula Major contains information about menses, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and general diseases and their treatments. Remedies usually consist of herbs, spices, and oils. The identity of Trotula of Salerno has caused some controversy, with some scholars disputing her existence, or that she was a woman.
For more information on Tortula's life and career, please visit: http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/trotula.html]
Trotula of Salerno:
Trotula lived in the eleventh, or twelth, century in Salerno, Southern Italy. She is thought to have occupied the Chair of Medicine at the School of Salerno. Trotula was one of the most famous physicians of that time, with her main interests in alleviating the suffering of women. Her most notable medical works were "Passionibus Mulierum Curandorum" (The Diseases of Women), known as Trotula Major, and "De Ornatu Mulierum" known as Trotula Minor. Trotula Major contains information about menses, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and general diseases and their treatments. Remedies usually consist of herbs, spices, and oils. The identity of Trotula of Salerno has caused some controversy, with some scholars disputing her existence, or that she was a woman.
For more information on Tortula's life and career, please visit: http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/trotula.html]
Scope and ContentThis file contains records relating to translations of "The Sekeness of Wymmen". It includes a manuscript translation, and notebooks contains transcripts, and other notes.
Extent1 volume, 2 notebooks and envelope of notes
LanguageEnglish
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Persons keyword Samuel Merriman, 1771-1852, physician, Dorothea Waley Singer, 1882-1964, medical historian
SubjectMedical treatment, Diseases, Women, Medieval history
