A Note on the Glosses to the Zürcher Arzneibuch

Abstract

The text of the so-called Zurcher Arzneibuch, one of the earliest medicine books written in German (end of the 12th century), is completed by three interlinear (two German/German and one German/Latin) glosses. The first gloss presumably offers a common synonym for a rarer verb contained in the main text, the second one explains a portion of text otherwise not immediately understandable, due to two subsequent abbreviations, and the third one appears as a grammatical note to a word whose form could be ambiguous.