Chirurgia Jamati, Die Chirurgie des Jamerius (?) (XII, Jahrhundert) : Nach einer Handschrift der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek zu München mit unterstützung der Gräfin Bose-Stiftung / [J. Pagel].
- Julius Leopold Pagel
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Chirurgia Jamati, Die Chirurgie des Jamerius (?) (XII, Jahrhundert) : Nach einer Handschrift der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek zu München mit unterstützung der Gräfin Bose-Stiftung / [J. Pagel]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[Reprinted from Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. XXVIII, No. 5, Sept.-Oct, 1954.] THE SURGERY OF JAMERIUS Report on a New Manuscript MAGDA PAGEL-KOLL The Chirurgia Jamati was discovered by Julius Pagel in a Munich manuscript (C. L. M. 567) and edited in 1909. Pagel identified its author with the Jamerius quoted by Guy de Chauliac. In 1895 Pagel had collected and compiled these quotations (as published in the Berlin thesis of A. Saland), and in 1903 Pausier had published the “ Antidotarium ” to the “ Chirurgia Jamarii ” as preserved in a Paris and Oxford manu- script. Apart from a short assessment of Jamerius by Sudhoff (1918) and Sarton (1931) only Holcomb (1944) surveyed Jamerius’ surgical knowledge and skill, based on Pagel’s exposition. A careful comparison with other sources led him to a full confirmation of Pagel’s results notably those concerning the period of Jamerius (Xllth Century). This is older than surmised by Sudhoff (Xlllth Century). The earlier dating is borne out by the absence of quotations from Avicenna; Hippocrates and Con- stantinus Africanus being the only sources quoted. The Munich manuscript, from which Julius Pagel’s editio princeps had been prepared, remained the unique source, until in 1951 a second manuscript came to light in London in an antiquarian bookseller’s catalogue (Feisenberger Cat. No. XV, p. 2). This was purchased by the Royal College of Physicians Library where the author was permitted to examine it. The result of this examination and a comparison with Pagel’s edition is the subject of the present paper. I. DeSCRIPTION of THE LONDON MaNUSCRIPT. The manuscript (temporary dass mark 09:61) forms a collection of various medical texts comprising a total of 230 leaves of strong vellum measuring 7 by inches. It is written in black in varying gothic hands with many decorated initials in red and sometimes blue. The texts are set out in one column, except for three of the smaller ones, which are in two columns. At beginning and end several notes in Elizabethan English](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24859606_0109.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
