[Sca-cooks] Quinti Sereni Liber medicinalis

[emilio szabo]

> According to Hans-Dieter Stofföler in his commenterd edition of Walahfrid Strabo's Hortulusa, the most widespread medical text of the Carolingian era was Quintus Serenus' 'liber medicinalis'. 

> Serenus' main source was Pliny, of all people. I've also found Anthimus and a collection of 'Ariostotelian' adages that clearly do refer to humoral theory, though they don't really lay it out. 

> I haven't been able to traclk down a copy yet, but according to Stoffler, Serenus original text is in Aemilius Baehrens' collection Poetae Latini minores (Vol III, pp. 103 ff, Leipzig 1879)


See Vollmer (ed.), Quinti Sereni Liber medicinalis, Leipzig/Berlin 1916. (Corpus Medicorum Latinorum)


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