Proceedings of the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine, Session 1976–77
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Based on the speaker's book,' the following is a summary of her paper. The title of this talk comes from the inscription over the entrance to the ancient library at Alexandria which can be translated as "nourishment for the mind" or "medicine for the soul". The oldest surviving medical library in Scotland is that of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh founded in 1681, but there were medical books in libraries for many centuries before then. Papyrus rolls used by the Romans would have a brief life in our damp climate so we may only conjecture what medical books were available in Roman-occupied Britain. We are on slightly firmer ground when we reach the medieval period and, although their provenance cannot definitely be established, it seems likely that five medical manuscripts, dating from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, and now in the National Library of Scotland, came originally from Scottish monasteries. The wholesale destruction of churches and monasteries at the time of the Reformation meant that most of the libraries were destroyed also. After the holocaust, a small number of scholars tried to re-assemble what was left, and much of the material collected by them now rests in the National Library of Scotland and the university libraries. There were also private collectors during the late medieval period, outstanding among them William Schevez (d. 1497), Archbishop of St. Andrews, who had studied medicine at Louvain and who was court physician to James III. Medical manuscripts, once his property, are now in the British Library and the university libraries of Glasgow and St. Andrews.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 22 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1978