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E-book Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775-900 : New Approaches to Recipe Literature

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So begins an entry within a collection of medical recipes found in an early ninth-century medical manuscript located in the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, cod. sang. 759 (see Figure 1).2 This collection, covering roughly the second half of the manuscript (pp. 58–94), includes a vast range of material, from recipes for scented ointments to treatments for blindness, skin conditions, and kidney problems; the recipe in question presents a potion intended to alleviate the agonising pains associated with gout. These opening lines appear to bring a personal dimension to early medieval health and medicine. Terentianus’ auto-biographical note illustrates the relationship between medical knowledge and practice during this period: his written record not only plays a critical role in the transmission of medical knowledge but testifies to his application of this knowledge in the context of therapy.An examination of a sample of eighth- and ninth-century manuscripts, however, complicates this neat picture. Another early ninth-century manu-script also located in St Gall, cod. sang. 751, contains a nearly identical phrase at the start of an antidote for gout: Antidotum podagricum quod dicitur calipo-dium quod ego Terentius Eoticianus accepi (see Figure 2).3 There are intriguing parallels between these two entries: both claim to treat gout, are from early ninth-century medical manuscripts housed in St Gall, and were allegedly used by someone with the name Terenti(an)us. These features demand a closer look. Do the codicological contexts and histories of the two manuscripts indi-cate that they were written by the same St Gall scribe, a certain Terenti(an)us? Or is there evidence to suggest that these codices have different origins?Palaeographical analysis supports the latter possibility: an investigation into codd. sang. 751 and 759 indicates that the recipes in question were not written by a single individual. First, it is unlikely that either manuscript originated in St Gall, let alone in the same writing centre.

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419 BUR c

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Netherlands : BRILL., 2024

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436 hlm

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English

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9789004466173

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419

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