[Sca-cooks] Period sources (Anthimus)

[david friedman]

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Someone wrote:

>>One of my Generic Winter Holiday presents was _Eating Right in the
>>Renaissance_ by Ken Albala (fascinating book!) which claims that _De
>>observatione ciborum_ was 'totally unknown by Renaissance Physicians and
>>was not publised until modern times' (footnoting the Mark Grant/Prospect
>>Books translation). I don't know how accurate that is-- anyone have any
>>feedback?

and Adamantius responded:

>Grant's is not the first published edition; I know HG Cariadoc has or
>had an earlier edition from, IIRC, the 1930's. I believe there are
>German translations from before that; check Thomas Gloning's website
>for more info on that. Now, this source is, after all, a letter, and
>not a published book as would know it, but that doesn't necessarily
>mean it was totally unknown to Renaissance physicians. Certainly they
>knew Galen and his ilk. Anthimus' views on humoral medicine seem to
>be a little different, though, so perhaps his views as a common
>school of thought had not really survived into the Renaissance as
>Galen's did.

Actually, the Universtiy of Chicago had it: Anthimus, De Observatio
Ciborum, translated by Shirley Howard Weber, published by E. J. Brill
Ltd, Leiden 1924. I think it was someone's doctoral thesis which had
gotten published.

Elizabeth of Dendermonde/Betty Cook