INDEX OF MEDIEVAL MEDICAL IMAGES IN NORTH AMERICA

我们的直接目标是描述和索引所有 目前带有医学成分的中世纪手稿图像 北美收藏(55-60份手稿，3000-4000份 图像)。我们的目标是为那些 寻求研究中世纪医学思想的图形遗产 制作一个全面的中世纪医学数据库 肖像学。该项目最终将产生两个产品： 计算机磁盘上的ASCII文本文件形式的索引项， 适用于自由格式的文本检索程序，以及打印的 按图像内容和类别索引的目录 手稿信息(目前位置、来源(如果已知)、 作者和书名、手稿和缩略图的日期 艺术家，如已知)。 该项目将需要使用和推广两种类型的 现有的图书馆术语：非圆锥描述符(摘自 《普林斯顿基督教艺术与主题索引》编辑档案 标题(摘自国会图书馆主题标题列表和 医学主题标题列表)。到目前为止还没有人试图 为长期字段提供中央索引词汇表 中世纪的知识。我们对医学图像的适应 因此，国际刑事法院的编辑档案将代表着在 对中世纪科学的研究。我们将对这些进行补充 带有上述列表中的主题词的专业术语 ，并将与现有的研究小组合作，提出 附加标题旨在为网格增加历史深度。 尽管图文并茂的医学手稿的数量 欧洲中世纪在北美可能看起来很小，我们 我相信“美国收藏”提供了一种罚款(和 可管理)欧洲材料的横截面，包括 一些现存的最大和最华丽的插图 举个例子。在这些微型模型中，人们可以观察到它的早期阶段 健康科学的发展--从外科和产科 到药理学和神经精神病学--变成它们的现代形式。

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.