The Bologna professor William of Saliceto (ca. 1210-1285) is one of the most eminent representatives of medieval Latin surgery. His works—Chirurgia and Summa conservationis et curationis—significantly influenced the later development of this discipline. From the beginning of the fourteenth century onwards, his Chirurgia was repeatedly translated and adapted into the main European languages. In the present study, the High German translations of this text will be taken into consideration with respect to both the oldest-preserved manuscript containing its first vernacular version and the later revision of this translation that can partially be reconstructed from a series of quotations in works such as Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Buch der Cirurgia (1497).
The German Translations of William of Saliceto’s Surgery and their Impact on the Later Surgical Tradition in the Vernacular Language
Chiara Benati
2024-01-01
Abstract
The Bologna professor William of Saliceto (ca. 1210-1285) is one of the most eminent representatives of medieval Latin surgery. His works—Chirurgia and Summa conservationis et curationis—significantly influenced the later development of this discipline. From the beginning of the fourteenth century onwards, his Chirurgia was repeatedly translated and adapted into the main European languages. In the present study, the High German translations of this text will be taken into consideration with respect to both the oldest-preserved manuscript containing its first vernacular version and the later revision of this translation that can partially be reconstructed from a series of quotations in works such as Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Buch der Cirurgia (1497).
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