medical books in the byzantine world

194 Pages·2013·5.05 MB·English

EIKASMOS
Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica

Studi Online, 2

MEDICAL BOOKS
IN THE BYZANTINE WORLD

EDITED BY

BARBARA ZIPSER

BOLOGNA 2013

Medical books in the
Byzantine world
edited by
Barbara Zipser
Bologna 2013
(cid:111)
Eikasmós Online II
ISSN 2282-2178
In memoriam
David Bennett †

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.......................................................vii
List of figures............................................................xi
List of abbreviations....................................................xii
1. Prefatory note: the uses of medical manuscripts
Peregrine Horden (RHUL and Oxford)...............................1
2. Byzantine medicine, genres, and the ravages of time
Vivian Nutton (UCL) ............................................... 7
3. Disease and where to treat it: a Byzantine vade mecum
Dionysios Stathakopoulos (KCL)...................................19
4. Two Latin Pre-Salernitan medical manuals, the Liber passionalis and
the Tereoperica (Ps. Petroncellus)
Klaus-Dietrich Fischer (Mainz).....................................35
5. The fate of a Greek medical handbook in the Medieval West: the Intro-
duction, or the Physician ascribed to Galen
Caroline Petit (ICS)................................................57
6. Aristotle and the Caliph’s Dream. Aspects of medical translations
David Bennett (formerly NHS and RHUL) ......................... 79
7. ‘Syriac’ plant names in a fifteenth century Greek glossary (From the
Wellcome Library Books and Manuscripts)
Nikolaj Serikoff (Wellcome Library).................................97
8. TheReceptionofGalen’sArtofmedicineintheSyriacBookofmedicines
Siam Bhayro (Exeter).............................................123
9. Medieval hospital formularies: Byzantium and Islam compared
Peregrine Horden (RHUL and Oxford) ............................ 145
10. Cancerous cells, Neanderthal DNA and the tradition of Byzantine me-
dicine. Textual criticism in philology and genomics
Florian Markowetz (Cancer Research UK Cambridge and University of
Cambridge) and Barbara Zipser (RHUL)..........................165

Acknowledgements
This volume originates from a conference on Byzantine Medical Manuals in
Context, held in central London on the 19th of September 2009. The confer-
ence, which was jointly organized by Peregrine Horden and Barbara Zipser,
formed part of a three year project on Byzantine Medical Manuals: Construc-
tion and UsebasedattheDepartmentofHistoryatRoyalHollowayUniversity
of London.
FirstandforemostwewouldliketothanktheWellcomeTrustforfunding
the project (grant no. 039752) and the conference (089306), and the RHUL
DepartmentofHistoryforprovidingasupplementarygrantfortheconference.
The volume was copy edited by Barbara Packard. Peregrine Horden helped
with various proofs. The Wellcome Library kindly allowed us to publish a
photograph of MSL 60. Caroline Buckley provided two illustrations.
We are honoured to be published by Eikasm´os, and also extend our
thanks to the anonymous peer reviewers and the editors. Last but not least
we would like to thank speakers, chairs and audience at the conference, and
all those who discussed the topic with us in other settings.
Barbara Zipser, RHUL