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Platearius, Matthaeus, -1161. Circa instans

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Personal name headingPlatearius, Matthaeus, -1161. Circa instans
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Variant(s)Platearius, Matthaeus, -1161. Compendium Salernitanum
Platearius, Matthaeus, -1161. De simplici medicine
Platearius, Matthaeus, -1161. Liber de simplicibus medicinis
Platearius, Matthaeus, -1161. Secreta Salernitana
Platearius, Matthaeus, d. 1161. Circa instans
Found inHis Le livre des simples meĢdecines ... c1986: p. 268 (in 12th century Platearius compiled a book on herbal medicine called De simplici medicine or Circa instans after the opening words of the mss.; it was widely translated and added to through the following centuries)
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 13 (1950): p. 27-29 (herbal compendium of the 12th cent. compiled by Johannes (?) Platearius; generally referred to as Circa instans, but also called Liber de simplicibus medicinis, Secreta Salernitana, and Compendium Salernitanum; won great fame and circulation in the Middle Ages)