Leipzig drug compendium

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The Leipzig drug compendium is a German drug theory from the 15th century. It is kept as Ms 1224 in the Leipzig University Library.

Sources and content

Contrary to similar writings like the Petroneller herbal book , which was first written in Latin in the middle of the 15th century (around 1482 also as a German-language Circa-instans version) with German picture text, the Leipzig drug compendium is not primarily based on the Circa instans from the Salerno school , but in particular also includes the aggregator (pseudo-serapion) of Ibn Wafid. This is how the largest herbal book of the 15th century, next to the Garden of Health, came into being. A translation of Macer floridus served as a further source .

The manuscript contains 328 monographs on single drugs, which are arranged according to initial letters, but not strictly alphabetically. It is noteworthy that the letters A, B and C already contain 127 monographs, i.e. a little more than a third of all chapters. These also take up about half of the entire volume of the manuscript.

literature

  • Walter Damm: The only known German version of the book 'Circa instans' (de simplicibus) based on a manuscript from the 15th century (Leipzig, University Library No. 1224). Dissertation, Berlin 1939.
  • Johannes Gottfried Mayer : The 'Leipzig drug compendium' (Leipzig, university library, Cod. 1224) and its sources. In: Konrad Goehl , Johannes Gottfried Mayer (Hrsg.): Editions and studies on Latin and German specialist prose of the Middle Ages. Festival ceremony for Gundolf Keil. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2000. ISBN 3-8260-1851-6 . P. 207ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Richter: Petroneller herb book. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , pp. 1130 f .; here: p. 1130.
  2. ↑ Nigel F. Palmer , Klaus Speckenbach: dreams and herbs. Studies on the Petroneller 'Circa instans' handwriting and on the German dream books of the Middle Ages. Cologne and Vienna 1990 (= Pictura et poesis. Interdisciplinary studies on the relationship between literature and art , 4).
  3. ↑ Nigel F. Palmer: Petroneller herb book. In: Author's Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Volume 7, Col. 494-496.