Medieval medicine in illuminated manuscripts
- Type Others
- Author/s Murray Jones, Peter
- ISBN13 9780712306577
- ISBN10 0712306579
- Pages 111
- Published 1997
Sections
Art History HandbooksMedieval medicine in illuminated manuscripts
Some of the manuscripts illustrated are famous because of the quality of their design and splendour of illumination, but most medical illustration was nor work of such refinement and consequently has been largely ignored by historians of art. For the historian of medicine, however, these ordinary manuscripts are just as interesting as the select few bemuse they tell so much of what it must have been like to study and practise the healing arts in medieval times, as well as providing evidence of the changing role of the book in medicine.
The colour reproductions presented here reveal the extraordinary range and diversity in subject-matter and style of these illustrations. Peter Murray Jones provides the context, considering each picture as an integral part of the manuscript in which it is found, and interpreting it as a document of medical history.
- Type Others
- Author/s Murray Jones, Peter
- ISBN13 9780712306577
- ISBN10 0712306579
- Pages 111
- Published 1997