The Textual Interest of the Syriac Versions of Galen’s <i>Simples</i>Manuscript StudiesSyriaca.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/XUPZ68RC/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.IreneCalàJimmyDaccacheRobertHawleyThe Textual Interest of the Syriac Versions of Galen’s <i>Simples</i>http://syriaca.org/cbss/XUPZ68RChttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/XUPZ68RChttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/XUPZ68RCManuscript Studies3:12018186-207As a complement and supplement to the various articles in this issue devoted specifically to the manuscript olim Hiersemann 500/20, henceforth referred to as the "Syriac Galen Palimpsest", or simply "SGP", this article presents selected examples of how and why the undertext of SGP is important for scholarship, especially in disciplines beyond the confines of Syriac Christianity. Our examples are drawn from Sergius of Reš ʿAynā's sixth century Syriac translation of Books VI-VIII of Galen of Pergamon's important pharmacological treatise On simple drugs (hereafter "Simples"), which, as is well known, is found not only in SGP, but also and especially in another, older and better preserved manuscript, British Library Additional 14661 (hereafter "BL"). These selected examples illustrate two points (both of which require much further study in order to be elucidated fully): firstly, how the Greek text of Galen's Simples, as published by Kühn, may in some cases be corrected on the basis of indirect textual evidence provided by Sergius' Syriac translation, and secondly, how Sergius' sixth century translation was to prove fundamental even centuries later, during the ʿAbbāsid translation movement centered in Baghdad.
Calà, Irene, Jimmy Daccache, and Robert Hawley. “The Textual Interest of the Syriac Versions of Galen’s Simples.” Manuscript Studies 3:1 (2018): 186–207.
Irene Calà, Jimmy Daccache, and Robert Hawley, The Textual Interest of the Syriac Versions of Galen’s Simples,” Manuscript Studies 3:1 (2018): 186–207.GalenGreek philosophyIV-VII CEJacobitesSergius of ReshainaVI CEmedicinetranslations from Greektranslations into Syriac