INDEX OF MEDIEVAL MEDICAL IMAGES IN NORTH AMERICA

我们的直接目标是描述和索引的内容， 中世纪的手稿图像与医疗成分目前 在北美收藏（55-60手稿，3000-4000 图像）。 我们的目标是为那些 试图研究中世纪医学思想的图形遗产， 建立了一个全面的中世纪医学数据库 图像学 该项目将产生两种产品： 在计算机磁盘上以ASCII文本文件的形式索引条目， 适用于自由格式的文本检索程序，以及打印的 按图像内容和分类索引的目录 手稿信息（当前位置，来源（已知时）， 作者和标题，手稿和微缩模型的日期，以及 艺术家，当你知道。 该项目将需要使用和扩展两种类型的 现有的图书馆术语：信息地理描述符（来自 普林斯顿基督教艺术与主题索引（Princeton Index of Christian Art and Subject） 标题（来自国会图书馆主题标题列表和 医学主题列表）。 还没有人试图 提供一个中心索引词汇表的世俗领域， 中世纪的知识 我们对医学影像的适应 I.C.A. 因此，编辑的文件将代表一个开拓性的努力， 研究中世纪的科学。 我们将补充这些 从上述列表中带主题词的专业术语 并将与现有的研究小组合作， 旨在增加MeSH历史深度的附加标题。 尽管有插图的医学手稿的数量 欧洲中世纪在北美可能看起来很小，我们 相信“美国收藏”提供了一个罚款（和 欧洲材料的横截面，包括 一些现存的最大和最华丽的插图 例子. 在这些微缩模型中可以观察到早期阶段 健康科学的发展--从外科和产科 到药理学和神经精神病学--转化为现代形式。

Our immediate aim is to describe and index the contents of all medieval manuscript images with medical components presently held in North American collections (55-60 manuscripts, 3000-4000 images). Our goal is to provide new information for those who seek to study the graphic legacy of the medieval medical mind by producing a comprehensive database of medieval medical iconography. Two products will eventuate from this project: index entries in the form of ASCII text files on computer disk, adapted to a free-form text-retrieval program, and a printed catalogue indexed by iconographic content and by categories of manuscript information (present location, origin (when known), author and title, dates of manuscript and of miniatures, and artist, when known). The project will require the use and extension of two types of existing library terminology: inconographic descriptors (from the Editors File of the Princeton Index of Christian Art and subject headings (from the Library of Congress Subject Heading List and the Medical Subject Heading List). No one has yet attempted to provide a central indexing vocabulary for a secular field of medieval knowledge. Our adaptation to medical images of the I.C.A. Editor's File will thus represent a pioneering effort in the study of the medieval sciences. We will supplement these specialized terms with subject headings from the lists mentioned above, and will cooperate with existing study groups proposing additional headings designed to add historical depth to MeSH. Though the number of illustrated medical manuscripts from the European Middle Ages in North America may seem small, we believe the "American collection" provides a fine (and manageable) cross-section of the European material, including some of the largest and most lavishly illustrated surviving examples. In these miniatures one can observe in its early stages the evolution of the health sciences -- from surgery and obstetrics to pharmacology and neuropsychiatry -- into their modern forms.