Macer Floridus

Name:

Macer Floridus Variant names:

• Floridus, Macer
• Macer, Aemilius
• Odo de Meung
• Odo Magdunensis

Biographical Details:

It is a traditional pseudonym for the author of a Latin poem in hexameters describing the medical virtues of herbs (with reference to the Roman poet Aemilius Macer, d. 15 BC). The real author is generally identified with the French physician Odo de Meung whose name is mentioned in a 12th-century copy of the text (Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, MS. Dc. 160).

Further Information:

For Odo de Meung or Magdunensis see E. Wickersheimer, Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au moyen âge. Réimpression de l'édition de 1936, Hautes Études Médiévales et Modernes, 34 (Geneva, 1979), p. 584; D. Jacquart, Supplément to E. Wickersheimer, Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au moyen âge. ed. by Guy Beaujouan, Hautes Études Médiévales et Modernes, 35 (Geneva, 1979), p. 218.

Categorisation:

Dates: 1000 to 1100 Century: 11th century AD to 12th century AD Geographical area: France Period: Medieval

Works:

• author
  1. tim00002000 Macer Floridus De viribus herbarum carmen.

Gender:

Male

Birth Year:

1000

Death Year:

1100

CERL Id:

cnp00012246

Author Id:

14650