Henricus de Saxonia

Henricus de Saxonia , allegedly a student of Albert the Great (who lived in the 13th century) , was given in incunabula as the author of the treatise Secreta mulierum or a commentary on it. The name was probably found in the dedication at the beginning of the manuscript that served as the printing template. In most manuscripts, this dedication phrase does not contain any or only abbreviated names; individual manuscripts contain different names in full. Usually this treatise on the nature of women was wrongly ascribed to Albert the Great, and therefore Henricus de Saxonia was made a pupil of it.

He is not identical to the Strasbourg doctor Heinrich von Sachsen , who, along with four other doctors , was commissioned to write a plague treatise in 1349 .

Prints mentioning Henricus de Saxonia as the author or commentator

• Perugia around 1477 in the complete catalog of incandescent prints (GW number GW00762)
• Venice 1478 in the complete catalog of incunabulae (GW number GW00763)
• Augsburg 1489 in the general catalog of incandescent prints (GW number GW00764)
• Rome 1499 (?) In the general catalog of the incunabula (GW number GW00766)
• Vienna around 1504 in the complete catalog of incandescent prints (GW number GW00765) = A 1416 in VD 16 .
• 12: 169319K in VD 17 .

literature

• Ernest Wickersheimer : Henri de Saxe et le "De Secretis Mulierum". Antwerp 1923 ( Communication faite au 3 ^e Congrès de l'Histoire de l'Art de guérir ).
• Christoph Ferckel: The Secreta Mulierum and its author. In: Sudhoff's archive for the history of medicine and the natural sciences. 38, 3, 1954, pp. 267-274 ( JSTOR 20774274 ).
• Margaret Schleissner: Secreta mulierum. In: Author's Lexicon . 2nd Edition. 8, 1992, col. 986-993.

Web links

• Literature by and about Henricus de Saxonia in the bibliographic database WorldCat