Astrologia Ypocratis and its vernacular early modern afterlives

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Astrologia Ypocratis, Þe boke of Ypocras, Hyppocrates de la significacion de la muerte y de la vida, manuscript filiation, early modern vernacular translations

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Astrologia Ypocratis is a Latin zodiacal lunary which deals with the prognosis, diagnosis and treatment of diseases according to the phases of the moon in the twelve Zodiac signs. It widely circulated during the Middle Ages in Latin (Thorndike 1960; Kibre 1977, 1978), Middle English (Authors, 2018) and Middle Dutch (Jansen-Sieben 1983). It endures throughout the early modern period due to the degree of confidence of sixteenth-century society in astrological medicine and the figure of Hippocrates. For the present study, two sixteenth-century witnesses – English and Spanish - are transcribed and collated following Thorndike’s (1960) methodology. We aim to establish their genetic filiation, tracing the original versions from which both vernacular translations derive to continue contributing to the transmission of the text.

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2025-12-12

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