Gilles, de Corbeil, fl 1200 (French royal physician, teacher, and poet)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1200
Biography
Gilles de Corbeil was a French royal physician, teacher, and poet. He was born in Corbeil-Essonnes in approximately 1140 and died in the first quarter of the 13th century. He is the author of four medical poems and a scathing anti-clerical satire, all in Latin dactylic hexameters. He wrote two poems for students: De urinis and De pulsibus, on urine and on Galenic theories of the pulse.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
De pulsibus, by Aegidius Corboliensis, 1481
Part
Identifier: MS 169/ff. 87v-97v
Contents
Ff. 87-97 of MS 169 contain the treatise, De pulsibus, by the French royal physician, Gilles de Corbeil (known by the Latinisation of his name, 'Aegidius Corboliensis '). As well as a 12th-13th century royal physician, Gilles was dedicated to Academic medicine in France, and promoted the Salernitian school. As a teacher of medicine, he composed two poems for students, the De urinis and De...
Dates:
1481
Pulses by Giles of Corbeil with gloss, 13th century
Part
Identifier: MS 173/ff. 1r-8v
Contents
The first eight folios of MS 173 contain the verses on pulses by the twelfth to thirteenth-century French poet and physician, Giles of Corbeil (also known as Aegidius Corboliensis). Giles was educated at the medical school of Salerno, the first and one of the most renowned schools for medical knowledge in Western Europe throughout the Middle Ages. Giles returned to Paris in the late twelfth century and became a teacher, canon of Notre Dame and also court physician to King Phillip II. Giles'...
Dates:
13th century
Super Hippocratis Prognostica, by Aegidius Corboliensis, 1481
Part
Identifier: MS 169/ ff. 97v-106v
Contents
The text contained on ff. 97v-106v of MS 169 has been identified as a commentary on Hippocrates' Prognostica, by Aegidius (also known as Gilles de Corbeil) by Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre in their Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (1963). In this same catalogue, MS 169 in the Edinburgh University Collection is the only volume where this text seems to exist (or survive).The text...
Dates:
1481