Download A Census of Greek Medical Manuscripts: From Byzantium to the by Alain Touwaide PDF

By Alain Touwaide

Manuscripts containing Greek clinical texts have been inventoried by means of writer and paintings at first of the 20 th century by means of a bunch of philologists lower than the course of Hermann Diels. helpful because it was once - and should remain – Diels’ catalogue passed over authors and works, misidentified manuscripts, and neglected codices. in addition, because the ebook of undefined, a few libraries have followed a brand new method of type, manuscripts were destroyed, goods have replaced situation, and new ones have come to mild.


The current Census is a list of the Greek scientific manuscripts at present recognized in collections world wide. it truly is either an amended and up to date index of Diels’ catalogue, and a listing of the goods ignored or ignored in Diels, or situated due to the fact that. even though it doesn't supersede Diels’ catalogue, it's the necessary device for a brand new Diels, and may be the reference for future years for any new severe version and medico-historical learn in keeping with manuscripts, in addition to offering the root for a vast diversity of alternative old inquiries, from codicology to the background of drugs and technological know-how, together with Byzantine highbrow background, Renaissance reviews and humanism, heritage of the booklet and early printing, and the background of clinical philology and learning.


Show description

Read Online or Download A Census of Greek Medical Manuscripts: From Byzantium to the Renaissance (Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean) PDF

Best publishing & books books

The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

As a growing number of of our cultural history migrates into electronic shape and as expanding quantities of literature and artwork are created inside electronic environments, it turns into extra very important than ever earlier than for us to appreciate how the medium impacts the textual content. The specialist individuals to this quantity supply a transparent, engrossing and available perception into how the texts we learn and learn are created, formed and transmitted to us.

The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference

Masking quite a lot of wisdom, the recent York Public Library African American table Reference is an impressive source for domestic, kin, and company, and a vital addition in your own reference library. "Indispensable for these attracted to the African American event. we don't have any larger resource for fast and trustworthy details.

Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital Age (Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos)

Breaking the e-book is a manifesto at the cognitive effects and emotional results of human interactions with actual books that finds why the conventional humanities disciplines are immune to 'digital' humanities. Explores the explanations why the normal humanities disciplines are proof against 'digital humanities' finds features of e-book background, supplying it to illustrate of the way various media form our modes of considering and feeling    Gathers jointly an important booklet heritage and literary feedback in regards to the hundred years prime as much as the early 19th-century emergence of mass print tradition Predicts results of the electronic revolution on disciplinarity, services, and the institutional restructuring of the arts

International Futurism 1945-2012: A Bibliographic Handbook

In 2009, Futurism has now not ended up in a waste paper bin, as Marinetti expected in 1909, yet really is being celebrated far and wide all over the world with exhibitions, meetings and a great number of books. This bibliographic instruction manual is a revised and increased model of a bibliographic reference-shelf the writer released in foreign Futurism in Arts and Literature (de Gruyter 2000).

Extra info for A Census of Greek Medical Manuscripts: From Byzantium to the Renaissance (Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean)

Example text

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.75 of 5 – based on 44 votes