The Syriac Galen Palimpsest and the Role of Syriac in the Transmission of Greek Medicine in the OrientBulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 89, SupplementSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/9KPI68A6/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.SiamBhayroSebastian P.BrockThe Syriac Galen Palimpsest and the Role of Syriac in the Transmission of Greek Medicine in the Orienthttp://syriaca.org/cbss/9KPI68A6https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/9KPI68A6https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/9KPI68A6RosalieDavidAncient Medical and Healing Systems: Their Legacy to Western MedicineManchesterManchester University Press201324-43Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 89, SupplementThis paper presents the newly rediscovered ‘Syriac Galen Palimpsest’. The manuscript has been subjected to the latest imaging techniques, which has allowed scholars to identify its undertext as containing a Syriac translation of Galen's Book of Simple Drugs. After discussing the history, imaging and identification of the manuscript, we proceed to consider its significance for our understanding of the transmission of Greek medical lore in Syriac and Arabic, for which the Book of Simple Drugs serves as a convenient model. Several common misconceptions regarding the Syriac medical traditions are addressed, including the assumed inferiority of the Syriac translations, compared to the Arabic ones, and the role of Syriac as an intermediary between Greek and Arabic.
Bhayro, Siam, and Sebastian P. Brock. “The Syriac Galen Palimpsest and the Role of Syriac in the Transmission of Greek Medicine in the Orient.” In Ancient Medical and Healing Systems: Their Legacy to Western Medicine, edited by Rosalie David, 24–43. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 89, Supplement. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013.
Siam Bhayro and Sebastian P. Brock, The Syriac Galen Palimpsest and the Role of Syriac in the Transmission of Greek Medicine in the Orient, in Ancient Medical and Healing Systems: Their Legacy to Western Medicine, ed. Rosalie David, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 89, Supplement (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013), 24–43.GalenGreek philosophyIV-VII CEJacobitesSergius of ReshainaVI CEmedicinepalimpsesttranslations from Greektranslations into Syriac