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OCLC number
46503249
Author
Valls, Helen Elizabeth,1963-
Title
Studies on Roger Frugardi's Chirurgia.
Degree
Ph. D. -- University of Toronto, 1996
Publisher
Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996.
Description
7 microfiches.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
The Chirurgia of Roger Frugardi, written down c.1170, stands at the beginning of a long line of surgical treatises written in the medieval Latin West. Its contemporary impact was considerable and it is especially significant for the large body of derivative literature it generated in the form of extensive marginal annotations, a revision of the text by Roland of Parma and the writing of a continuous commentary. The work was also translated and adapted into the major European vernaculars from soon after its composition. The present study edits a translation into French and examines the other surviving witnesses to a French translation of the work. The detailed notes compare the translation to a related French manuscript and to two Latin manuscripts and highlight all divergences between the four manuscripts. Modern scholars have put the number of surviving manuscripts at over twenty but there exists no comprehensive survey or catalogue. We catalogue and describe thirty Latin manuscripts and do the same for vernacular adaptations and translations of the work. On the basis of this corpus we reconsider the Latin tradition and present a method which uses statistical techniques to produce a hierarchical tree to assist in establishing a stemma. We also describe a method for modelling the adaptations. We study in detail the large corpus of illustrations which accompany the Chirurgia in Latin and vernacular manuscripts and include the illustrations in one manuscript of the Chirurgia of Roland. The 96 medical illustrations which preface the edited French translation are identified and individually discussed and their relations to parallel illustrations in the corpus are analysed. We relate differences in this corpus to changes in the text and show that some illustrations are transmitted unaltered despite minor or major modifications to the text.
ISBN
0612116476
9780612116474