Edición crítica y estudio del “Examen de la composición teriacal de Andrómaco”, del licenciado Liaño, médico de Burgos

Abstract

La presente tesis doctoral, Edición crítica y estudio del «Examen de la composición teriacal de Andrómaco», del licenciado Liaño, médico de Burgos, tiene como propósito recuperar y poner a disposición de la comunidad científica un valioso testimonio de nuestro acervo históricoliterario e histórico-médico del siglo XVI: un diálogo de tema médico-farmacológico en castellano sobre el medicamento denominado triaca magna o triaca de Andrómaco, obra de un muy poco conocido médico de nombre Juan de Liaño. Hasta la fecha, y a excepción de la bibliografía material y repertorial, las diferentes disciplinas potencialmente interesadas en el estudio del Examen de la composición teriacal de Andrómaco habían ignorado su existencia. Tampoco se disponía de ninguna edición posterior a la única conocida, impresa en Burgos, en casa de Martín Muñoz y Tomé Rico, en 1546. Por ello, el objetivo fundamental de esta tesis doctoral ha sido la edición crítica y la anotación del diálogo. Asimismo, esta edición se acompaña de un estudio introductorio en el que se analizan las cuestiones más relevantes para situar e interpretar esta obra en el contexto histórico, científico y literario de su época...The purpose of this PhD thesis, Critical edition and study of the «Exam of Andromachus’s theriacal composition», by Licensed Liaño, physician of Burgos, is to recover and to make available to the scientific community a significant testimony of our 16th century historical-literary and historical-medical heritage: a medical and pharmacological dialogue in Spanish on the medication known as the theriaca magna or theriaca Andromachi, written by a very little-known physician named Juan de Liaño. To this date, Exam of Andromachus’s theriacal composition had gone unnoticed to the specialists in the different disciplines potentially interested in its study, with the exemption of the material and repertorial bibliography, which had indeed given an account of its existence. Nor was there any edition available to the only one that was known, printed in Burgos, in the house of Martín Muñoz and Tomé Rico, in 1546. Thus, the main objective of this PhD thesis has been the critical edition as well as the annotation of the dialogue. Furthermore, this edition is accompanied by an introductory study that analyses the most relevant issues to situate and interpret this work in the historical, scientific and literary context of its time. Our critical edition relies on the study of the printed transmission of the work and, more specifically, in the material analysis of the only known copy, the one from Burgos in 1546, as well as in the collating of 5 out of the 6 copies localized. Such methodology assures the possibility of reaching a reliable and refined version of the printed texts; hence it is the one that has been used in this work...