Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.MSL.14

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.MSL.14
    • London, Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine, MSL, 014
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.MSL.14
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.MSL.14
    • Wellcome Library, MS.MSL.14
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
  • Date of Origin :
  • Composition :
    • 158 folios, numbered as pages 1-317; 12mo. 14.5 × 10 cm. Calf binding, rebacked. The volume has the appearance of having been much used. Many of the folios are worn, and some have been neatly patched.

Text in this manuscript

Data Source: Pinakes

Iatrosophion [Grec].

  • Related work : Iatrosophion
  • Folios : p. 272-317
  • Incipit : Πίνε οἶνον εὔκρατον
  • Explicit : ἂν ἔχει ἄνθρωπον κακὸν πυρετὸν ... καὶ ἄλιφε τὴν κεφαλήν

Manuscript parts

Pinakes

Former owners

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Notes

Data Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections

  • The greater part of the text is in the same handwriting, but pages 272-317 are by another scribe whose script is larger and less crabbed. Rubrics are used for capital letters and marginalia. The handwriting indicates late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. The manuscript may be approximately dated as circ. 1500.

Bibliography

  • B. Zipser, John the Physician's Therapeutics.. A Medical Handbook in Vernacular Greek, Studies in Ancient Medicine 37, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2009
  • P. Bouras-Vallianatos, « Greek Manuscripts at the Wellcome Library in London: A Descriptive Catalogue », Medical History, 59, 2015, p. 275-326 (Version en ligne)
  • This manuscript is described in detail by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos in Medical History 59 (2015), pp.275-326.The manuscript contains an early version of the so-called Therapeutics of John the Physician (pp.108-271), identified and described by Barbara Zipser in John the Physician's Therapeutics: a medical handbook in vernacular Greek (Brill, 2009); the codex is further described by Zipser and Vivian Nutton in 'MSL 14 - a Wellcome Manuscript of a Medical Practitioner', Histoire de la tradition et édition des médecins grecs: Actes du VIe colloque international (Paris, Université de Paris Sorbonne - Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, 10-12 avril 2008). ed. / Veronique Boudon-Millot ; Antonio Garzya ; Jacques Jouanna ; Amneris Roselli. Napoli : M. D'Auria Editore, 2010. p. 259-270 (Collectanea).
  • V. NUTTON, B. Zipser, « MSL 14: A Wellcome Manuscript of a Medical Practitioner », dans A. Roselli (éd), Storia della tradizione e edizione dei medici greci. Atti del VI Colloquio internazionale, Paris 12-14 aprile 2008, Collectanea 27, Napoli, M. D'Auria, 2010, p. 259-270

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