Series | Studi di storia
Edited book | Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500
Chapter | 5 La stampa medico-scientifica nell’Europa del XV secolo

5 La stampa medico-scientifica nell’Europa del XV secolo

Con cenni sulla fruizione dei libri di materia medica e ricettari

Abstract

The 15cBOOKTRADE has assigned a subject and multiple keywords to each edition printed before 1501. We are now able to provide a comprehensive assessment of the entire production of medical material in print. This essay first does that, by looking at overall numbers, topics, areas of publication, Latin versus vernacular editions, and so on. It then focuses on the production and distribution of Materia Medica, and concludes with the evidence of use of this material, gathered from the copy-specific data pertaining to the surviving copies described in MEI, to sketch out the socio-cultural profile and the reading practices of the many anonymous and of the few known actual readers.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Oct. 21, 2019 | Published Feb. 24, 2020 | Language: it

Keywords Medical texts • Materia medica • Reading practices • Incunabula • Printing medicine

Copyright © 2020 Sabrina Minuzzi. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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