File talk:Trotula of Salerno.jpg

This image is misdated, and unlabeled. Whether or not it violates copyright to post a photocopy from a book published in the 1980s, I'm not sure.

The image depicts "Trotula," an anthropomorphized "author" of the Trotula ensemble, a collection of three different 12th-century texts on women's medicine from the southern Italian town of Salerno[|Salerno]. Correctly, the image comes from a manuscript containing a copy of the Trotula texts that dates from the early 14th century, not the "12th" or "13th" as stated here. The manuscript is correctly cited as: London, Wellcome Library, MS 544. (In older citations, it is also referred to as "MS Miscellanea medica XVIII.") The image appears on p. 65a. The manuscript's contents were described in 1996: Monica H. Green, “A Handlist of the Latin and Vernacular Manuscripts of the So-Called Trotula Texts. Part I: The Latin Manuscripts,” Scriptorium 50 (1996), 137-175. An open-access color version of the image can be found in the Wellcome Images database, L0015682.

--Historian1098 (talk) 04:19, 5 February 2014 (UTC)