EIKASMOS Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica Studi Online, 2 MEDICAL BOOKS IN THE BYZANTINE WORLD EDITED BY BARBARA ZIPSER BOLOGNA 2013 Medical books in the Byzantine world edited by Barbara Zipser Bologna 2013 (cid:111) Eikasmós Online II ISSN 2282-2178 In memoriam David Bennett † Table of Contents Acknowledgments.......................................................vii List of figures............................................................xi List of abbreviations....................................................xii 1. Prefatory note: the uses of medical manuscripts Peregrine Horden (RHUL and Oxford)...............................1 2. Byzantine medicine, genres, and the ravages of time Vivian Nutton (UCL) ............................................... 7 3. Disease and where to treat it: a Byzantine vade mecum Dionysios Stathakopoulos (KCL)...................................19 4. Two Latin Pre-Salernitan medical manuals, the Liber passionalis and the Tereoperica (Ps. Petroncellus) Klaus-Dietrich Fischer (Mainz).....................................35 5. The fate of a Greek medical handbook in the Medieval West: the Intro- duction, or the Physician ascribed to Galen Caroline Petit (ICS)................................................57 6. Aristotle and the Caliph’s Dream. Aspects of medical translations David Bennett (formerly NHS and RHUL) ......................... 79 7. ‘Syriac’ plant names in a fifteenth century Greek glossary (From the Wellcome Library Books and Manuscripts) Nikolaj Serikoff (Wellcome Library).................................97 8. TheReceptionofGalen’sArtofmedicineintheSyriacBookofmedicines Siam Bhayro (Exeter).............................................123 9. Medieval hospital formularies: Byzantium and Islam compared Peregrine Horden (RHUL and Oxford) ............................ 145 10. Cancerous cells, Neanderthal DNA and the tradition of Byzantine me- dicine. Textual criticism in philology and genomics Florian Markowetz (Cancer Research UK Cambridge and University of Cambridge) and Barbara Zipser (RHUL)..........................165 Acknowledgements This volume originates from a conference on Byzantine Medical Manuals in Context, held in central London on the 19th of September 2009. The confer- ence, which was jointly organized by Peregrine Horden and Barbara Zipser, formed part of a three year project on Byzantine Medical Manuals: Construc- tion and UsebasedattheDepartmentofHistoryatRoyalHollowayUniversity of London. FirstandforemostwewouldliketothanktheWellcomeTrustforfunding the project (grant no. 039752) and the conference (089306), and the RHUL DepartmentofHistoryforprovidingasupplementarygrantfortheconference. The volume was copy edited by Barbara Packard. Peregrine Horden helped with various proofs. The Wellcome Library kindly allowed us to publish a photograph of MSL 60. Caroline Buckley provided two illustrations. We are honoured to be published by Eikasm´os, and also extend our thanks to the anonymous peer reviewers and the editors. Last but not least we would like to thank speakers, chairs and audience at the conference, and all those who discussed the topic with us in other settings. Barbara Zipser, RHUL