Main description:

This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Collection, London. The content of these manuscripts ranges from medicine, including theories on diagnosis and treatment of disease, to astronomy, philosophy, and poetry. With texts dating from the ancient era to the Byzantine and Ottoman worlds, each manuscript provides its own unique story, opening a window onto different social and cultural milieus. All chapters are illustrated with black and white and colour figures, highlighting some of the most significant codices in the collection.

Contents:

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