Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum : a poem on the preservation of health in rhyming Latin verse / addressed by the school of Salerno to Robert of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, with an ancient translation : and an introduction and notes by Sir Alexander Croke.

  • Schola Medica Salernitana
Date:
1830
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Credit: Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum : a poem on the preservation of health in rhyming Latin verse / addressed by the school of Salerno to Robert of Normandy, son of William the Conqueror, with an ancient translation : and an introduction and notes by Sir Alexander Croke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■ edly republished in most of the cities of Europe, ■ translated into every language, and illustrated hy I voluminous comments. In the various hands through which it passed, the text was subjected to many . alterations, to omissions, additions, and corruptions, from illiterate or careless copyists, and still more : from learned and presumptuous critics The earliest commentator was Arnaldus de Villa ' Nova, one of the most celebrated men of the s thirteenth century, as a physician, a chemist, an I astrologer, and a divine. By his own account he I was born at IMilan, the year of his birth is uncer- I tain. After studying at Paris and Montpelier, he visited the academies of Italy, and the Arabian I schools in Spain, and was familiar with the Hebrew, I the Arabic, and the Greek languages. Finally he [established himself at Barcelona, whence he ^vas I styled Catalanus. He was the pupil of Peter de lApono, a celebrated divine, and the friend of Ray- mond Lully. In 1276, he cured Pope Innocent the fifth of the ])lague, by his famous tincture of gold. :He was in great favour with James the second, king !of Arragon, who employed him in 1309 in a negotia- See the catalogue of printed editions—of which I have ^described one hundred and sixty. See there specimens of ivarious translations.
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