The Syriac Galen Palimpsest: Research Methods and Latest Discoveries

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In this article, we provide an update on the progress of the AHRC-funded Syriac Galen Palimpsest Project, which is directed by Peter E. Pormann at the University of Manchester. We also present a newly identified folio from Book 3 of Galen’s On Simple Drugs—a book hitherto not known to be represented in the manuscript. We offer some preliminary conclusions about the original medical manuscript’s codicological structure, particularly the composition of its quires and the sequence of hair and flesh sides of parchment. Finally, we outline our approach to analysing the undertext’s palaeography, with reference to the methodology devised by Ayda Kaplan.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.335
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.334
Metadata Access https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/oai2d?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:fdr.uni-hamburg.de:335
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Creator Afif, Naima; Bhayro, Siam; Pormann, Peter E.; Sellers, William I.; Smelova, Natalia
Publisher Universität Hamburg
Publication Year 2016
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Open Access; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Resource Type Journal article; Text
Discipline Other