Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London

ISBN-13: 9781032235868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 212 str.

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos

Opis

This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Collection, London. All chapters are illustrated with black and white and colour figures, highlighting some of the most significant codices in the collection.

Spis treści

The Wellcome Greek Collection;  1. Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection: Owners and Cataloguers;  2. The Clinical Method of the Anonymous of Paris;  3. Wellcomensis MS.MSL.14 as a Therapeutic Handbook;  4. The Language of Iatrosophia: A Case-Study of two Manuscripts of the Library at Wellcome Collection (MS.4103 and MS.MSL.14);  5. Jewish Astronomy in Byzantium: The Case of Wellcomensis MS.498;  6. Manuel Korinthios’ Poems in Wellcomensis MS.498;  7. Greek Renaissance Commentaries on the Organon: The Codex Wellcomensis MS.MSL.1 

O autorze

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos is Wellcome Lecturer in History of Medicine at The University of Edinburgh.