[Sca-cooks] Magninus Mediolanensis and late medieval Iro-Scottish medicine and diet

[emilio szabo]

> > Who would have thought to find a transcription of the Latin regimen
> > sanitatis of
> > Magninus Mediolanensis in a corpus of ancient texts from Ireland.
> > Wonderful!

> Well, not really all that surprised.  As I understand it, the Irish monks
> did a lot to maintain classical knowledge during the Dark Ages.  There's a
> great book, *How the Irish Saved Civilization* by Thomas Cahill that
> discusses this at length.
>
> Kiri


As far as I can see the Iro-Scottish mission of the 6th/7th centuries and 
onwards on the continent is unrelated to the 15th century translation of 
Magninus' medical regimen sanitatis from Latin into the vernacular in Ireland 
and Scotland.


What I find more interesting and still surprising is this abstract of an article 
I have no access to (Maino de Maineri = Magninus Mediolanensis):



"The Scottish Historical Review
Volume 86, Number 1: No. 221, April 2007
E-ISSN: 1750-0222 Print ISSN: 0036-9241 
DOI: 10.1353/shr.2007.0047
Proctor, Caroline.
Physician to The Bruce: Maino De Maineri in Scotland
The Scottish Historical Review - Volume 86, Number 1: No. 221, April 2007, pp. 
16-26

Edinburgh University Press 


This article pieces together evidence from  fourteenth-century Scottish royal 
records to identify one of the  physicians to King Robert I as the Milanese 
Maino de Maineri (ca  1295-1368), regent master of the University of Paris and 
later court  physician and astrologer to the Visconti rulers of Milan. The  
implications for the history of medicine in medieval Scotland are  significant, 
suggesting that, at least at court level, Scots demanded  and could afford and 
attract a high quality of medical treatment. Also  emphasised are the strong 
links that existed between Scotland, Ireland  and continental Europe, through 
the travels of physicians and the  transmission of medical literature. Three 
fifteenth-century manuscripts  of one of Maino's works are used as an example of 
just this type of  transmission. The article urges a reevaluation of medical 
culture in  medieval Scotland."

Does it follow from these findings that the work of Magninus/Maino is a source 
for late medieval  Irish or Scottish cuisine and diet? 



E.