Collaborative research on the digital Syriac Galen Palimpsest

Robert Hawley (1) , Siam Bhayro (2) , Grigory Kessel (3) , Peter E. Pormann (4)

1 OM - ORIENT ET MÉDITERRANÉE : Textes, Archéologie, Histoire
2 University of Exeter
3 Philipps Universität Marburg = Philipps University of Marburg
4 University of Manchester - School of arts, Languages and Culture

The purpose of this note is to generate a broader awareness in the scholarly community of the existence of an important privately owned palimpsest of which the undertext contains the Syriac translation (by Sergius of Rēš ʿAynā, 6th century) of Galen's treatise On the mixtures and powers of simple drugs.

Mots clés: Galen; Sergius of Resh'aina; Ancient medicine; Syriac medicine

Mots clés: Galien; médecine syriaque; histoire de la médecine

Domaines: Histoire

Robert Hawley, Siam Bhayro, Grigory Kessel, Peter E. Pormann. Collaborative research on the digital Syriac Galen Palimpsest. Semitica et Classica, 2012, 5, pp.261-264. ⟨10.1484/J.SEC.1.103064⟩. ⟨halshs-00790225⟩