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9780429892523.Pdf Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Col- lection, London. The content of these manuscripts ranges from medicine, including theories on diagnosis and treatment of disease, to astronomy, phil- osophy, and poetry. With texts dating from the ancient era to the Byzantine and Ottoman worlds, each manuscript provides its own unique story, open- ing 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. Petros Bouras-Vallianatos is Wellcome Lecturer in History of Medicine at The University of Edinburgh. Paschal table with concentric circles, from Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS.MSL.60, f. 61r. © The Library at Wellcome Collection, London. Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos First published 2020 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Petros Bouras-Vallianatos; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Petros Bouras-Vallianatos to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial- No Derivatives 4.0 license. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros, editor. Title: Exploring Greek manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London / edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019059089 (print) | LCCN 2019059090 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138601598 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429470035 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Wellcome Library. | Manuscripts, Greek–England–London. | Paleography, Greek. Classification: LCC Z6621.W383 G744 2020 (print) | LCC Z6621.W383 (ebook) | DDC 011/.31–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019059089 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019059090 ISBN: 978-1-138-60159-8 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-47003-5 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Swales & Willis, Exeter, Devon, UK To Richard Aspin Contents List of figures ix Preface xi Notes on contributors xii Note to the reader xv The Wellcome Greek Collection 1 PETROS BOURAS-VALLIANATOS 1 Greek manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection: Owners and cataloguers 12 VIVIAN NUTTON 2 The clinical method of the anonymous of Paris 25 ORLY LEWIS 3 Wellcomensis MS.MSL.14 as a therapeutic handbook 54 BARBARA ZIPSER 4 The language of iatrosophia: A case-study of two manuscripts of the Library at Wellcome Collection (MS.4103 and MS.MSL.14) 66 TINA LENDARI AND IO MANOLESSOU 5 Jewish astronomy in Byzantium: The case of Wellcomensis MS.498 113 ANNE TIHON 6 Manuel Korinthios’ poems in Wellcomensis MS.498 123 MARIA TOMADAKI 7 Greek Renaissance commentaries on the Organon: The codex Wellcomensis MS.MSL.1 148 NIKOS AGIOTIS viii Contents Addenda et Corrigenda to the ‘Greek Manuscripts at the Wellcome Library in London: A Descriptive Catalogue’, Medical History 59 (2015): 275–326 181 Index rerum et nominum 183 Index locorum 191 Index codicum manu scriptorum 196 Figures Frontispiece: Paschal table with concentric circles, from Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS.MSL.60, f. 61r. © The Library at Wellcome Collection, London 0.1 Johnson Papyrus, recto. Illustration of comfrey. © The Library at Wellcome Collection, London 2 0.2 Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS.MSL.114, f. 196r. © The Library at Wellcome Collection, London 4 0.3 Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS.354, f. 4r. © The Library at Wellcome Collection, London 6 1.1 Portrait of Anthony Askew, from the photogravure after the picture in Emanuel College, Cambridge. © The Library at Wellcome Collection, London 13 1.2 James Sims. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1804, after S. Medley. © The Library at Wellcome Collection, London 15 1.3 Portrait of Sir Henry Wellcome, 1902. © The Library at Wellcome Collection, London 17 1.4 Edgar Ashworth Underwood, seated, right hand on cheek. © The Library at Wellcome Collection, London 19 1.5 Portrait of F. N. L. Poynter. © The Library at Wellcome Collection, London 20 1.6 Dr Peter Williams (1925–2014), first Director of the Wellcome Trust in his office on the first floor of 1 Park Square West, London, looking on to Regent’s Park, and holding a copy of Physic and Philanthropy: A History of the Wellcome Trust 1936–1986 by A. R. Hall and B. A. Bembridge (Cambridge, 1986). © The Library at Wellcome Collection, London 21 2.1 Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS.MSL.52, f. 366v. Photograph by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos 27 3.1 Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS.MSL.14, pp. 77–8. Photograph by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos 59 4.1 Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS.4103, p. 58. © The Library at Well- come Collection, London 74 x Figures 4.2 Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS.4103, p. 144. © The Library at Wellcome Collection, London 75 4.3 Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS.MSL.14, pp. 182–3 Photograph by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos 97 4.4 Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS.MSL.14, pp. 307–8 Photograph by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos 108 5.1 Athous Vatopedinus 188, f. 74v. © Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi (Mt Athos, Greece) 119 5.2 Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS.498, f. 61v. © The Library at Well- come Collection, London 120 6.1 Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS. 498, f. 24r. © The Library at Well- come Collection, London 143 6.2 Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS. 498, f. 31v. © The Library at Well- come Collection, London 144 7.1 Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS.MSL.1, f. 154r. Photograph by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos 173 7.2 Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS.MSL.1, f. 178r. Photograph by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos 174 Preface This edited volume emerged out of an international symposium on Greek Manuscripts at the Wellcome Library, which took place on 25 May 2017 at the Wellcome Trust Gibbs Building in London. This conference would not have been possible without the generous support of the Library at Wellcome Collection. The Library and the Wellcome Trust kindly provided me with digital images and covered the Open Access publishing costs respectively. I am grateful to all the speakers and chairs (Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Dimitrios Skrekas, Peregrine Horden) for contributing to the lively discussion during the conference. I would like also to thank Marjolijne Janssen, Marc Laux- termann, and Georgi Parpulov for their inspiring papers, although these do not appear in the present volume. Special thanks go to Michael Greenwood from Routledge for his professionalism and the several anonymous peer reviewers for their comments. I am also grateful to Elder Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos for allowing reproduction of the image from Codex Vatopedinus 188. My sin- cere thanks also go to the Wellcome librarians for facilitating in situ access to manuscripts during my several visits to the Library and especially to Elma Brenner, Nikolai Serikoff, and Stefania Signorello. This project would not have been possible without the overwhelming support of Richard Aspin, who was Head of Research in the Wellcome Library when my descriptive catalogue of the Greek collection was being produced. He also envisaged and helped with the organisation of the international symposium and warmly encouraged the production of this volume, which is wholeheart- edly dedicated to him. Petros Bouras-Vallianatos Edinburgh November 2019 Notes on contributors Nikos Agiotis is a Research Associate of Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin. His main interests are in Byzantine and ‘post- Byzantine’ Aristotelianism. His publications include Inventarisierung von Scholien, Glossen und Diagrammen der handschriftlichen Überlieferung zu Aristoteles’ De Interpretatione (c. 1–4) (2015) and Leon Magentenos, Commentary on Prior Analytics (Book II) (in print). He is currently working on the critical edition of an anonymous Byzantine commentary on Prior Analytics II, as well as of two anonymous Aristotelian texts in the palimpsest Athens, EBE 192. Petros Bouras-Vallianatos is Wellcome Lecturer in History of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on Byzantine medicine and pharmacology, cross-cultural medical exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, the reception of the classical medical tradition in the Middle Ages, and Greek palaeography, including the first descriptive catalogue of the Greek manuscripts at the Wellcome Library in London. He is the author of Innovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275–c.1330) (Oxford University Press, 2020) and has co-edited Greek Medical Literature and its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium (Routledge, 2018) and Brill’s Com- panion to the Reception of Galen (Brill, 2019). Tina Lendari is Assistant Professor in Medieval Vernacular and Early Modern Greek Language and Literature at the National and Kapodis- trian University of Athens. Her research and publications include textual criticism, linguistic analysis, and literary theory as applied to medieval and early modern Greek literature. She has produced the editio princeps of the romance Livistros and Rodamne, version V, and is one of the co- authors of the Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek (CUP, 2019). Her new edition of the romance Velthandros and Chry- santza is near completion.
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