Rosa Anglica sev Rosa Medicinæ. Irish Texts Society (1929)

Author: Winifred Wulff

Book ID: 70855

Price: 95.00

Rosa Anglica sev Rosa Medicinæ Johannis Anglici: An early modern Irish translation of a section of the medieval medical text-book of John of Gaddesden. Edited & Translated by Winifred Wulff. London; Published for the Irish Texts Society by Simpkin, 1929. Pp [ix], lviii, 434, [2],unopened, facsimile. Green cloth lettered in gilt.  A fine copy.

An early modern Irish translation of a significant portion of the medieval medical text Rosa Anglica, which was likely composed around 1314.

The Irish text is primarily based on the Royal Irish Academy manuscript 23 P 20 (15th-century manuscript). The book features Irish and English on opposite pages.

The introduction includes a list of unpublished Irish medical manuscripts and herbals (pages l–lvi), and the volume concludes with a bibliography.

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