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Barnabas, de Riatinis, d c 1365 (physician from Reggio)

 Person

Staff Only

Dates

  • Existence: d c 1365

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Consilia by Barnabas de Riatinis of Reggio, 15th century

 Part
Identifier: MS 175/ff. 121r-139r
Contents These folios of MS 175 contain a text called Consilia by Barnabas de Riatinis of Reggio. This text seems only to survive in MS 175. It belongs to a popular genre of medieval medical texts known also by the nameconsilia. Consilia, or case consultations, gave pratical advice for maintaining health by managing the six "non-naturals" (food and drink, exercise, sleep, air, excretions and...
Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including medical texts and recipes

De conservanda sanitate by Barnabas de Riatinis of Reggio, 15th century

 Part
Identifier: MS 175/ff. 76r-120r
Contents ff. 76-120 contain a treatise by Barnabas de Riatinis of Reggio, a fourteenth-century Italian physician and author of (perhaps three) medical texts. Written in Mantua in 1331, the De conservanda sanitate is a manual for the general preservation of health. Barnabas dedicated this text to the nobles and a lord "Symoni of Corrigia", and the first line of which reads: Incipit libellus de conservanda sanitate aggregatus ex...
Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including medical texts and recipes