Publishing a translation of Jordanus Rufus's veterinary treatise
The main focus of my research, since the start of my Master’s degree, in 2017, and throughout my PhD, has been the medieval knight and author Jordanus Rufus (c. 1200-c. 1256). He wrote a veterinary treatise, De medicina equorum (On the medicine of horses) which was translated in multiple European languages throughout the medieval period. An incredibly useful compilation of the known manuscripts has been published by Antonio Montinaro and can be found here . During my PhD, I focussed on the manuscripts containing the medieval French translation of the text, to study how it had evolved from the 13th to the 16th centuries, whether translators had adapted it, and whether there were clues indicating the text may have been put into practice. Thank to Antonio Montinaro’s list of manuscripts, I came across one which, unlike the other French translations, had somehow not been studied: apart from Montinaro’s work, it did not seem to be referred to anywhere else. I contacted the Vatican lib...
