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ROQUE (Mário da Costa). AS PESTES Medievais Europeias e o «Regimento Proveytoso contra ha Pestenença». Paris. 1979. - ROQUE (Mário da Costa) AS PESTES Medievais Europeias e o «Regimento Proveytoso contra ha Pestenença» . Tentativa de Interpretação à luz dos conhecimentos pestológicos actuais. Paris: Fundação Clouste Gulbenkian, 1979. XVIII, 534 pp.: il.; 255 mm. A crucial reference work in the field of the history of medieval Portuguese medicine. The study articulates two complementary planes: on the one hand, a panoramic analysis of the great plague epidemics in medieval Europe, from the Plague of Justinian (6th century) to the recurring outbreaks of the 14th and 15th centuries; on the other hand, an interpretation of the Portuguese incunabulum * Regimento Proveytoso contra ha Pestenença* , printed in Lisbon by Valentim Fernandes around 1495-1496, in the light of modern pestological knowledge. This small incunabulum – translated from Latin into Portuguese by Friar Luís de Rás, of the Order of Saint Francis, from a text by a Danish bishop – constitutes the oldest printed Portuguese medical treatise on the subject, and its critical and annotated edition is the central contribution of the work. An indispensable reference in studies of the history of medicine in Portugal and regularly cited in specialized international bibliography. Sought after. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate