Richardus, Anglicus, fl 1180 (physician and medical writer)
Person
Dates
- Existence: fl 1180
Biography
Someone calling himself Richardus Anglicus assembled a learned medical compendium in Latin called 'Micrologus', and wrote it at the famous medical university of Montpellier at the behest of Lancelinus de l'Isle-Adam, dean of Beauvais from 1178 to 1190. This has sometimes been identified as Richard of Wendover, an English physian and canon of St Paul's, London, but the dates make this doubtful, as this Richard died in 1252. The 'Micrologus' has also been identified as containing an earlier style of medicine. Gilles de Corbeil makes reference to another Richardus, also of Montpellier, but does not refer to him as 'Anglicus'. See Oxford DNB.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Micrologus by Ricardus Anglicus, 14th century
Part
Identifier: MS 174/ff. 82r-108v
Contents
Ff. 82-108 of MS 174 contains a section of the Micrologus by Ricardus Anglicus. The Micrologus is not known to survive as a complete text in any medieval manuscript, but texts attributed independently to Ricardus Anglicus, like in MS 174, are thought to have originally belonged together in a medical compendium. The part contained on ff. 82-108 of MS 174 (a section of the Microloguson diagnostic...
Dates:
14th century
Signa pronostica, by Ricardus Anglicus, 14th century
Part
Identifier: MS 174/ff. 1r-17r
Contents
Ff. 1-17 of MS 174 contain Signa pronostica, a text that circulated in medieval manuscripts usually as part of a larger medical compendium known as the Micrologus. The Micrologus was the work of a Richardus [or Ricardus] Anglicus who was working at the famous medieval medical school in Montpellier, probably around the end of the twelfth century, or beginning of the thirteenth century. Very...
Dates:
14th century