Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine - The Sources, Compilation, and Transmission of the Hippiatrica

Zusatztext ...most welcome and carefully written... Informationen zum Autor Anne McCabe is Research Associate of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents in Oxford Klappentext How were Greek texts on the care and medical treatment of the horse transmitted from antiquity to the present day? Using the evidence of Byzantine manuscripts of the veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica! Anne McCabe traces the journey of the texts from the stables to the medieval scriptorium and ultimately to the printed edition. Surviving manuscripts include both magnificent presentation copies and plain ones intended for use in the field. The Hippiatrica is a rich and little-known source of information about horses! medicine! and magic. This book provides a guide to its complex history as well as a host of fascinating details! and includes color illustrations of a number of manuscript pages. Zusammenfassung The veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica is a rich and little-known source of information about the care and medical treatment of horses, donkeys, and mules in late antiquity and the Byzantine period. This book provides a guide both to its intriguing contents, and to its complex textual history.

Product details

• Authors: Anne McCabe
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2006
• EAN: 9780199277551
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927755-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Oxford Studies in Byzantium; Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, MEDICAL / Veterinary Medicine / Equine, CE period up to c 1500, Ancient History, Asian History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Equine veterinary medicine