Project details
- Project Officer/PI: Dr Sabrina Minuzzi
- Duration: 2019-2021
- Funding Body: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship
Project overview
MAT-MED in Transit. The Transforming Knowledge of Healing Plants was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship project (2019–2021) led by Dr Sabrina Minuzzi, previously part of the ERC-funded 15cBOOKTRADE Project at Oxford.
The acronym MAT-MED stands for materia medica, which is the body of knowledge concerning the medicinal properties of plants, animals and minerals – the so called ‘simples’ – that formed the basis for the preparation of medical remedies.
The project developed the MatMed-Readers database, modelled on CERL’s Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI), allowing systematic analysis of reader annotations and making these resources freely accessible for research in the history of medicine and early printed books.
