Liber Uricrisiarum - A Reading Edition

Henry Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum (finished in 1379) is one of the earliest and most elaborate expositions in English of the ancient medical art of uroscopy, diagnosis by examination of urine, presented in the context of contemporary medical theory.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Sigils of Witnesses
Introduction
1. Liber Uricrisiarum in the Uroscopic Tradition
2. Henry Daniel and the Liber Uricrisiarum
3. Daniel’s Circle and Audience
4. The Manuscripts
5. A Reading Edition
6. Editorial Practice
Text
Appendices
Appendix 1: Prologue (Latin Original)
Appendix 2: Regule Isaac (Latin Original)
Appendix 3: Epilogue (English Translation)
Appendix 4: Astronomical Measurements in Bk. 2.6
Appendix 5: The Language of the Royal 17 D.i Scribe
Explanatory Notes
Glossary
Index of Proper Nouns
Works Cited

About the author

Henry Daniel was a fourteenth-century Dominican friar skilled in the medical and natural science of his time. Various manuscripts by him, both in English and Latin, are preserved in the Bodleian Library.

E. Ruth Harvey is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

M. Teresa Tavormina is a professor emerita in the Department of English at Michigan State University.

Sarah Star is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of English at Kenyon College.

Summary

Henry Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum (finished in 1379) is one of the earliest and most elaborate expositions in English of the ancient medical art of uroscopy, diagnosis by examination of urine, presented in the context of contemporary medical theory.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Daniel
• Assisted by: E Ruth Harvey (Editor), E. Ruth Harvey (Editor), E.Ruth Harvey (Editor), Sarah Star (Editor), M Teresa Tavormina (Editor), M. Teresa Tavormina (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781487506018
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0601-8
• No. of pages: 532
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Geschichte der Medizin, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, MEDICAL / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, HISTORY / Medieval, History - General History