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The Syriac Text of Book Nine of On Simple Drugs. New Evidence from the Syriac Galen Palimpsest (2020)

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The Syriac Galen Palimpsest (SGP), a privately owned manuscript containing parts of books 2-9 of Galen’s Simple Drugs in Syriac translation, offers important evidence to the reconstruction of the Greek text of book 9. Roughly half the book survives in it, and the article discusses the methodology used to reconstruct the often poorly visible Syriac text, combining computational tools for text and image analysis. In particular, the creation of a lemmatised bilingual Greek-Syriac corpus provides an important heuristic tool for the reconstruction of the text. The Syriac version of two chapters from book 9, ‘on stones in sponges’ and ‘on ostracite’, are edited here for the first time and used to illustrate the challenges and the opportunities that the SGP offers not just for the study of the Greek textual history, but also the transmission from Greek into Arabic.

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Article Matteo Martelli; Caroline Petit; Lucia Raggetti (2020) Introduction. New Perspectives on Galen’s Treatise On Simple Drugs and the History of Pharmacology. Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 6-15). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Raggetti, Lucia
Petit, Caroline
Martelli, Matteo
Harig, Georg
Fausti, Daniela
Klerk, Saskia
Concepts
Pharmacology
Medicine
Materia medica
Manuscripts
Translations
Syriac language
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
16th century
Early modern
Renaissance
18th century
Places
Rome (Italy)
Baghdad (Iraq)
Paraguay
Leiden (Netherlands)
Naples (Italy)
Netherlands
Institutions
Universiteit Leiden
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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