The Syriac Text of Book Nine of On Simple Drugs: New Evidence from the Syriac Galen Palimpsest

The Syriac Text of Book Nine of On Simple Drugs: New Evidence from the Syriac Galen PalimpsestArchives Internationales d’Histoire des SciencesSyriaca.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/MXV4D2UI/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.NaïmaAfifPeter E.PormannWilliam I.SellersNataliaSmelovaSiamBhayroThe Syriac Text of Book Nine of On Simple Drugs: New Evidence from the Syriac Galen Palimpsesthttp://syriaca.org/cbss/MXV4D2UIhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/MXV4D2UIhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/MXV4D2UIArchives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences70 [184-185]2020130-149The Syriac Galen Palimpsest (SGP), a privately owned manuscript containing parts of books 2-9 of Galen’s Simple Drugs in Syriac translation, offers important evidence to the reconstruction of the Greek text of book 9. Roughly half the book survives in it, and the article discusses the methodology used to reconstruct the often poorly visible Syriac text, combining computational tools for text and image analysis. In particular, the creation of a lemmatised bilingual Greek-Syriac corpus provides an important heuristic tool for the reconstruction of the text. The Syriac version of two chapters from book 9, ‘on stones in sponges’ and ‘on ostracite’, are edited here for the first time and used to illustrate the challenges and the opportunities that the SGP offers not just for the study of the Greek textual history, but also the transmission from Greek into Arabic. Afif, Naïma, Peter E. Pormann, William I. Sellers, Natalia Smelova, and Siam Bhayro. “The Syriac Text of Book Nine of On Simple Drugs: New Evidence from the Syriac Galen Palimpsest.” Archives Internationales d’Histoire Des Sciences 70 [184-185] (2020): 130–49. Naïma Afif et al., The Syriac Text of Book Nine of On Simple Drugs: New Evidence from the Syriac Galen Palimpsest,” Archives Internationales d’Histoire Des Sciences 70 [184-185] (2020): 130–49.GalenGreek philosophyVII-XVIII CEmedicinetranslations from Greektranslations into Syriac