VMs: Re: Balneological comparisons...?

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

On the 'Balneis", I would like to draw your
attention again to something I wrote to the list
a long time ago (but not long after Brian Smith
wrote about this MS).
The page describing the bath of Petra lists a
number of ailments which seem all to be present
on VMs f77v, including even the 'urina pietrosa'
(stones in the urine)

See:
http://www.balnea.net/museum/terme/gallerie/pietro/pietro5.html

(I hope that that URL is not split over two lines)


Cheers, Rene

--- Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> While looking for balneological similarities, I
> stumbled (again) across 
> Pietro da Eboli (AKA Petrus de Ebulo) whose "De
> Balneis Puteoli" / "De 
> Balneis Puteolanis" (1227) was first mentioned
> on-list here by Brian Smith.
> 
> What I didn't realise about this was that it was a
> poem dedicated to 
> Frederick II, describing the virtues of 35 different
> spas.
> 
>
http://www.abruzzoitalico.it/intro/deaqua/en/elisir.asp?ID=16&sez=elisir
> 
> Now: thanks to the sharp eye of Philip Neal, we
> should know that f81r is 
> the only page in the VMS whose text looks obviously
> as though it's a poem. 
> And given that it should connect with f78v... taken
> together, this pair of 
> pages seem to imply that the text describes a
> spa-town with three connected 
> baths (or perhaps on the side of the hill, with two
> above the third).
> 
> It's possible that these disparate pieces of
> information may be enough to 
> significantly shorten the list of possible candidate
> stanzas of the poem to 
> compare against!
> 
> Just a thought... :-)
> 
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
> 


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