[2913] BN nouv. acq. 229, fol. 7.
[2914] Fol. 6r.
[2915] Fol. 4v.
[2916] Fols. 4v-5r.
[2917] Fol. 7r.
[2918] Fol. 7r-v.
[2919] Fol. 7v.
[2920] Fol. 9v.
[2921] What is known of the School of Salerno has already been briefly indicated in English by H. Rashdall, Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, 1895, I, 75-86, and T. Puschmann, History of Medical Education, English translation, London, 1891, pp. 197-211. The standard work on the subject is Salvatore De Renzi, Collectio Salernitana, in Italian with Latin texts, published at Naples in five volumes from 1852 to 1859. It contains a history of the School of Salerno by Renzi and various texts brought to light and dissertations discussing them by Renzi, Daremberg, Henschel, and others.
Unfortunately this publication proceeded by the unsystematic piecemeal and hand-to-mouth method, and new texts and discoveries were brought to the editor’s attention during the process, so that the history of the school and the texts in the earlier volumes have to be supplemented and corrected by the fuller versions and dissertations in the later volumes. It is too bad that all the materials could not have been collected and more systematically arranged and collated before publication. Also some of the texts printed have but the remotest connection with Salerno, while others have nothing to do with medicine.