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Social History of Medicine 1992 5(1):121-130; doi:10.1093/shm/5.1.121
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Jonh Bradmore and His Book Philomena1

S. J. LANG1

*Department of Medieval History, University of St. Andrews, St. Salvator's College St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland

SUMMARY BL MS Harley 1736 fols. 2–167 has been accepted by scholars as an original vernacular treatise on surgery, and its authorship has been attributed to Thomas Morstede, chief surgeon on the Agincourt campaign of 1415. This paper shows that there is a Latin source for the manuscript, and that this source can be identified as the work of John Bradmore, a London surgeon of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Details of Bradmore's life are given. The attribution of Harley 1736 to Thomas Morstede is questioned, and the close relationship between the Middle English manuscript and its Latin source is displayed by transcriptions of two cases common to both manuscripts.

Keywords: Henry V; Thomas Morstede; John Bradmore; parish fraternities; medieval surgery; vernacular surgical manuscripts; Latin surgical manuscripts; medieval surgeons

1 I would like to thank Dr simone Macdougall, my supervisor, for her unfailing enthusiasm and encouragement; and to thank her and my family for putting up with John Bradmore non-stop for months.


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