The Medical Recipe Collections of Henry IV of Castile (Real Academia de la Historia, 2/MS. 46, ff. 123r-130v): An Example of Textual Transmission in the Late Middle Ages
Abstract
The manuscript 2/MS. 46, ff. 123r-130v, deposited in the Spanish Royal Academy of History (Madrid) and entitled Reçeptas que fizo el doctor Gómez para el muy alto e muy esclareçido rey don Enrrique el quarto, nuestro sennor, is a text that has not been properly studied from the point of view of the transmission of the medical recipes. Some years ago, Marcelino V Amasuno attributed its composition to Dr Gómez García de Salamanca and related it to two other works by the same author: Compendio de medicina, written for the grand master of the Order of Santiago, Álvaro de Luna, and currently in the Library of the University of Salamanca; and the recipes following the Recetario contra la pestilencia, also housed in the Spanish Royal Academy of History. On the one hand, this contribution aims to confirm the writing date by means of a paleographical and codicological study, and, on the other hand, to establish its singularity through the comparison of the recipes contained in these manuscripts.
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