The collections of consilia. The MS 245 of Vendôme, a compilation of miscellanea
Les collections de « consilia » médicaux. Le manuscrit 245 de Vendôme, un recueil de miscellanées
Résumé
Originally, medieval consilia were short and singular texts but often transmitted in large collections that compiled numerous advices of the same professor. These collections have prefigured their diffusion in the first printed books from the 1470s in Italy. But consilia were also often copied alone, or in small compilations that were not meant to be exhaustive. The study of the ms 245 of the Municipal Library of Vendôme, written during the winter of 1440-1441 by a student of the University of Pavia, proposes the examination of a collection of miscellanea. The manuscript gathers some constituted collections of consilia, more isolated items, and partial commentaries to the Canon of Avicenna and the Liber ad Almansorem of Rhazès. It belonged to Theodore Guaineri, physician of the king of France Charles VIII, and probably, before him, to his father Antonio Guaineri († ca. 1458), practicioner at the court of Savoy, then professor at Pavia. The codicological and paleographical study of this codex must make it possible to understand how and for what purpose this volume was constituted. This compilation of miscellanea, largely annotated, delivers some of its secrets, its uses, and its readings between didactic aims and practical use.
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