A Census of Greek Medical Manuscripts: From Byzantium to the Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9780367878931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 432 str.

Alain Touwaide

Opis

Manuscripts containing Greek medical texts were inventoried at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of philologists directed by Hermann Diels. However, Diels’ catalogue omitted authors and works, and misidentified manuscripts and, furthermore, since the publication of the catalogue, some libraries have adopted a new system of classificat

Spis treści

Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Greek medicine. A census of Byzantine and Renaissance manuscripts; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Alain Touwaide, PhD, is the Scientific Director of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions.