This volume is a database of information about and references to literature on commentaries on Greek and Latin medical writers. It includes Greek and Latin commentaries up to the 12th century on authors, who were active before 600 A.D. It takes account of commentaries on Galen in particular and of later Alexandrian physicians - surviving and lost - as well as of commentaries originally composed in Greek which were only transmitted in Arabic translation. This catalogue summarises current knowledge of these commentaries covering manuscripts, editions, type of commentary, and the state of...

This composite volume presents a selection of 13 papers, which examine the (more than just literary) genre of 'commentary' in ancient and medieval times from the perspectives of Classical Philology, Philosophy, Art History, Theology and Medical History. With contributions by Rainer Jakobi, Rainer Jakobi, Barbara Zipser, Ralf Krumeich, Nina Valenzuela Montenegro, Susanne Wittekind, Viola Belghaus, Guram Tevzadze, Zaza Shatirishvili, Tina Dolidze, Mamuka Beriaschwili, Tengiz Iremadze.