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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458605003321

Autore

McCabe Anne Elena

Titolo

A Byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine [[electronic resource] ] : the sources, compilation, and transmission of the Hippiatrica / / Anne McCabe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-16475-5

9786611164751

0-19-153510-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

Oxford studies in Byzantium

Disciplina

636.1/089

Soggetti

Horses - Diseases

Veterinary medicine

Veterinary medicine - Byzantine Empire

Medicine, Greek and Roman

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Plates; Abbreviations; Introduction; Manuscripts of the Hippiatrica; Editions and Translations of the Text; Studies of the Hippiatrica; The Form of the Hippiatrica; The Sources of the Hippiatrica; Anatolius; Eumelus; Apsyrtus; Pelagonius; Theomnestus; Hierocles; Hippocrates; The Compilation and Evolution of the Hippiatrica; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica is a rich and little-known source of information about the care and medical treatment of horses, donkeys, and mules in late antiquity and the Byzantine period. This book provides a guide both to its intriguing contents, and to its complex textual history. - ;How were Greek texts on the care and medical treatment of the horse transmitted from antiquity to the present day? Using the evidence of Byzantine manuscripts of the veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica, Anne McCabe traces the journey of the texts from the stables to the mediev