Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen

710 Pages·2019·6.416 MB·English

by  Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Barbara Zipser

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen
Brill’s Companions
to Classical Reception
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Kyriakos N. Demetriou (University of Cyprus)
volume 17
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Brill’s Companion to the
Reception of Galen
Edited by
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Barbara Zipser
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Cover illustration: Medallion with the portrait of Galen surrounded by four scholars; Bononiensis 3632
(mid-15th century), fol. 26r. © Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna – Biblioteca Universitaria
di Bologna.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros. | Zipser, Barbara.
Title: Brill’s companion to the Reception of Galen / edited by Petros
 Bouras-Vallianatos, Barbara Zipser.
Description: Leiden : Brill, 2019. | Series: Brill’s Companions to Classical
 Reception ; 17 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019007179 (print) | LCCN 2019008240 (ebook) |
 ISBN 9789004394353 (E-book) | ISBN 9789004302211 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Medicine, Greek and Roman—History. | Medicine,
 Medieval—History. | Medical literature—Greece.
Classification: LCC R138 (ebook) | LCC R138 .B75 2019 (print) |
 DDC 610.938—dc23
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In memoriam
Piero Tassinari
∵

Contents
Acknowledgements xi
List of Figures xii
Latin Abbreviations of Titles of Galenic Works xiii
Notes on Contributors xviii
Note to the Reader xxvi
Introduction 1
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser
part 1
Galen in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
1 Galen’s Early Reception (Second–Third Centuries) 11
Antoine Pietrobelli
2 Galen in Late Antique Medical Handbooks 38
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
3 Galen’s Legacy in Alexandrian Texts Written in Greek, Latin, and
Arabic 62
Ivan Garofalo
4 Galen in Byzantine Medical Literature 86
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
5 Galen in Byzantine iatrosophia 111
Barbara Zipser
6 Textual Transmission of Galen in Byzantium 124
Paola Degni
7 Galen in Non-medical Byzantine Texts, 600–1453 140
Dionysios Stathakopoulos
viii Contents
part 2
Galen in the Medieval Islamic World
8 The Reception of Galen in the Syriac Tradition 163
Siam Bhayro
9 Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq and the Creation of an Arabic Galen 179
Glen M. Cooper
10 From Commentary to Polemic: the Reception of Galen by Abū Bakr
al-Rāzī 196
Pauline Koetschet
11 Avicenna between Galen and Aristotle 215
Gotthard Strohmaier
12 The Reception of Galen after Avicenna (Eleventh–Twelfth
Centuries) 227
Miquel Forcada
13 Maimonides and Galen 244
Y. Tzvi Langermann
14 Galen and Ibn al-Nafīs 263
Nahyan Fancy
15 The Reception of Galen in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah 279
Robert Alessi
16 The Reception of Galenic Pharmacology in the Arabic Tradition 304
Leigh Chipman
part 3
Galen in the Medieval West
17 Gloriosissimus Galienus: Galen and Galenic Writings in the
Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Latin West 319
Monica H. Green
Contents ix
18 Arabic-Latin Translations: Transmission and Transformation 343
Brian Long
19 Translating Galen in the Medieval West: the Greek-Latin
Translations 359
Anna Maria Urso
20 Galen in the Medieval Universities, 1200–1400 381
Michael McVaugh
21 Galenic Pharmacology in the Middle Ages: Galen’s On the Capacities
of Simple Drugs and its Reception between the Sixth and Fourteenth
Century 393
Iolanda Ventura
part 4
Galen in the Renaissance and Beyond
22 Editions and Translations of Galen from 1490 to 1540 437
Stefania Fortuna
23 ‘Galenic’ Forgeries of the Renaissance: an Overview on Commentaries
Falsely Attributed to Galen 453
Christina Savino
24 Renaissance Galenism, 1540–1640: Flexibility or an Increasing
Irrelevance? 472
Vivian Nutton
25 Galen in an Age of Change (1650–1820) 487
Maria Pia Donato
26 Galen into the Modern World: from Kühn to the Corpus Medicorum
Graecorum 508
†Piero Tassinari
x Contents
part 5
Galen in Other Cultures
27 The Reception of Galen in Hebrew Medieval Scientific Writings 537
Carmen Caballero-Navas
28 The Reception of Galen in the Armenian Tradition (Fifth–Seventeenth
Centuries) 559
Alessandro Orengo, with contributions by Irene Tinti
29 Galen in the Late Antique, Byzantine, and Syro-Arabic Alchemical
Traditions 577
Matteo Martelli
30 Galen in Asia? 594
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
31 Medieval Portraits of Galen 609
Stavros Lazaris
Index Rerum et Nominum 639
Index Locorum 657