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Record Nr.

UNINA9910404146803321

Titolo

Exploring Greek manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London / / edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

0-429-89251-9

0-429-47003-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 190 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

011/.31

Soggetti

Manuscripts, Greek - England - London

Paleography, Greek

HISTORY / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The Wellcome Greek collection / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos -- Greek manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection : owners and cataloguers / Vivian Nutton -- The clinical method of the Anonymous of Paris / Orly Lewis -- Wellcomensis MS.MSL.14 as a therapeutic handbook / Barbara Zipser -- The language of Iatrosophia : a case-study of two manuscripts of the Library at Wellcome Collection (MS.4103 and MS.MSL.14) / Tina Lendari and Io Manolessou -- Jewish astronomy in Byzantium : the case of Wellcomensis MS.498 / Anne Tihon -- Manuel Korinthios' poems in Wellcomensis MS.498 / Maria Tomadaki -- Greek Renaissance commentaries on the Organon : the Codex Wellcomensis MS.MSL.1 / Nikos Agiotis.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--