Arabian Medicine and its Influence on the Middle Ages: Volume II

Donald Campbell

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781136374968
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Ethnic Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

First published in 1926 and then reprinted in 2000. Volume II of Arabian Medicine and its influence on the Middle Ages includes two appendices which alphabetically list the Latin Translators of the Arabic Works, and include an investigation of the date and authorship of the Latin works of Galen.

APPENDIX II

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE DATE AND AUTHORSHIP
OF THE LATIN VERSIONS OF THE WORKS OF GALEN

In the ensuing pages I propose reconstructing the Galenic Library as it was known hi the Middle Ages.

All the known works of Galen that were translated into Latin will be placed under their respective titles, and the dates will be shown as far as the material at our disposal permits. While it is intended to keep in mind the Latin versions as the principal purpose of my research, the Greek, Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew texts will be referred to in so far as they have a direct bearing on this attempt to place before the reader the Galenic works as understood by the Mediaeval Scholastics.

The principal interest of this catalogue of the Galenic Library lies in the fact that it gives us a reflected picture of the great thought movements of the intellectual Middle Ages, at a time when the transition from the mediaeval to the modern world took place, with all it meant to mankind from the viewpoint of its spiritual activity with special reference to the revival of classical arts and letters.

It is much to be regretted that while Aristotle and other ‘ giants ’ of classical times have been, and are, studied with great assuetude, Galen and the medical philosophers have been abandoned to a mere handful of research workers who are scattered from Leipzig and Vienna on the one side, to Washington on the other.

An investigation of the individual manuscripts may yet reveal an aspect of the classics and mediaeval thought that up to the present is hidden from us, and for this reason alone the writer felt sufficiently enthusiastic to compile the data here given.

The arrangement of the appendix will be as follows. The title of the work, together with its name in Greek, where such exist, will be followed by a note on all the manuscripts that are known; then will follow a list of the Latin MSS. and translations, with notes on each.

ABBREVIATIONS

An asterisk after the MS. indicates that it is an abbreviation of an original.

The letter D.=Op. Gal (Giunta ed., 1528), thus : D. I,f. 60= Giunta edition (1528), tome 1, folio 60.

The letter C.=Operum Galeni (copy of which is in the British Museum, and in the writer’s private library), thus : C. III, f. 818 =ed. Lugduni, 1550, tome 3, folio 818. This edition is unknown to Brunet and Deschamps, Græsse, III, 8; Jourdan, IV, 324, mentions only ed. Lyons, 1552, in folio.

The letters [B.M.] after a Latin work indicate that the said work is in the British Museum, and the figures preceding them are the numbers in the Index Catalogue.

(1)

Opera varia

Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin MSS, are known.

Latin MSS.

Cambridge : Cantabr. St. Petri 1862

Einsiedeln: Bibl. monast. 304 ; s. ix

Leyden: Vossian. 2157

Osimo : nr. 51; s. xvi

Padua : Bibl. Ordinis Eremitanorum (Lat. ?). Whereabouts not known

Paris : Bibl. Univ. 125 ; s. xiii (Libri xviii de medicina)

(2)

Galeni paraphrastœ Menodoti suasoria ad artes oratio

A Greek and Latin MS. have been described. The following is the Latin MS. Berens. lat. N. 128; a. 1565 (impr.)

Latin translations

— C. V, f. 1, second part. (Inscr. Claudii Galeni Paraphrastæ Menodoti filii suasoria ad artes oratio, Ludouico Bellisario Medico Mutinensi Interprete)

— The three following publications contain both the Greek and Latin texts. Galeni . . . suasoria ad artes oratio. See CALLIMACHUS. Callimachi hymni et epigrammata &c. 1741. 8° 997 h. 6 [B.M.]

Galeni adhortatio ad artes. Cum sua annotatione et versione D. Erasmi edidit A. Willet. Lugduni Batavorum. 1812. 8° 8408 c. c. 2 [B.M.]

Claudii Galeni . . . opuscula varia [i.e. Oratio Suasoria ad Artes. Quod optimus Medicus idem et philosophus. De optimo docendi genere. De sectis. De optima secta. De dignoscendis animi affectibus. De dignoscendis animi erratis. De substantia naturalium facultatum. — Quod animi mores sequantur temperamentum corporis]. A. . . . T. Goulstono . . . Græca recensita, mendisque . . . repurgata, et in linguam Latinam . . . traducta . . . Accessere ab eodem variæ lectiones, et annotations criticæ Londini. 1640. 4° 540 f. 7 [B.M.]

(3)

Quod optima doctrina

There is a Greek MS. at Florence.

Latin translations

Giunta ed. (1528), 1, fol. 18

(4)

Quod optimus medicus sit etiam philosophus

Of the MSS. only the Greek survive (at Florence, Paris, Rome, and Venice). There are Greek MSS. said to be in England, though their whereabouts are not known.

Latin translations.

— C. V, f. 17–20, second part (Inscr. Claud. Galeni quid optimus Medicus est, eundum esse Philosophum; Ludouico Bellisario Medico Mutinensi Interprete)

— Claudii Galeni . . . opuscula varia (London, 1640), contains a Latin translation together with the Greek te...

Table of contents

• COVER
• HALF TITLE
• VOLUME1
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• VOLUME2
• CONTENTS
• VOLUME3
• APPENDIX I: LATIN TRANSLATORS OF THE ARABIC WORK
• APPENDIX II: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE DATE AND AUTHORSHIP OF THE LATIN VERSIONS OF THE WORKS OF GALEN
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX