Hippiatrica

Hippiatrica (Greek literally: "Horse Medicine [ fonts ]") is the title, which the modern editors and translators have given the main monument of ancient Greek horse medical literature. The Hippiatrica may have been compiled in the 5th or 6th century AD by an unknown publisher.

Swell

The main sources of Hippiatrica are seven late antique texts: the veterinary treatises of Eumelus (3rd century AD? ) Apsyrtus ( 3rd or 4th century AD ), Theomnestus ( 4th century AD. . ), Hierocles ( 4th or 5th year AD) and Hippocrates (?); a translation from Latin into Greek the text of the Pelagonius ( 4th or 5th year AD. ); and the chapter on horses from agricultural compilation of Anatolius (4th century AD? ). In a compilation of the 10th century were Tiberius and an anonymous compilation, called Προγνώσεις καὶ ἰασεις ( Prognoseis kai iaseis ), added.

Manuscripts

Get 22 manuscripts ( some with more than one copy of the text) of the Hippiatrica from the 10th to the 16th centuries, present in 5 reviews: M, B and D were the complete collection, RV is a shorter version, and E is a Epitome.

Editions and translations

The first Latin translation veterinariae medicinae libri II, Johanna Ruellio Suessionensi interprete, published in 1530 in Paris, was made by Jean Ruel ( Ruellius ). 1537 Simon published Grynaeus the Greek text, published in 1537 in Basel under the title Τῶν ἱππιατρικῶν βιβλία δύω: veterinariae medicinae libri duo, a Johanna Ruellio Suessionensi olim quidem latinitate Donatist, nunc vero iidem sua, hoc est Graeca, lingua primum in lucem aediti. From Grynaeus version two messages have been translated: the first, into Italian, edited by Michele Tramezzino under the title Opera della medicina de ' cavalli composta since diversified antichi scrittori, et a commune utilitarian greco di buona in lingua Volgar ridotta (Venice, 1543 ); the second, into French by Jean Massé, L'art vétérinaire ou grande mareschallerie (Paris, 1563).

A German translation of the Latin text of Ruel was Gregor colliery villages ( Nuremberg, 1571), under the title Two useful very good books of all sorts of ailments and health characteristics, so that the horses mules etc are plagued designate. 1924 and 1927 published Eugen and Karl Hoppe Or two volumes in Leipzig at BG Teubner Verlag as Corpus Hippiatricorum Graecorum (I Hippiatrica Berolinensia, II Hippiatrica Parisina Cantabrigiensia Londinensia ).