John Caius and the manuscripts of Galen / Vivian Nutton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nutton, Vivian.

Series:

Supplementary volume (Cambridge Philological Society) ; no. 13.

Supplementary volume ; no. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Galen.

Caius, John, 1510-1573.

Caius, John.

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

Manuscripts, Greek--Editing.

Manuscripts, Greek.

Transmission of texts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Cambridge Philological Society, 2020.

Summary:

John Caius (1510-75) enjoyed a European reputation as a Galenist physician. This study, based on his marginalia preserved in Eton and Cambridge, describes Caius' immense efforts to see and collate medical manuscripts in Italy and England over almost two decades. His reports are important for a modern editor of Galen, since many of these 'codices' are, apparently, now lost, and some were of high quality. Caius' notes also shed light on the growth of medical humanism, on the accessibility of Greek books and manuscripts in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and on the methods of Renaissance editors of Greek technical prose texts. Caius' evidence also prompts a reassessment of the 1525 Aldine Galen, and of the activities of two of its editors, John Clement and Edward Wotton. This study is of importance to students of both ancient medicine and the transmission of Greek learning in the West.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

PREFACE

I JOHN CAIUS

II THE STUDY OF GALEN BEFORE THE ALDINE EDITION

III FROM THE ALDINE TO THE BASLE GALEN

IV SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND: JOHN CAIUS' QUEST FOR GALENIC MANUSCRIPTS

V THE REWARDS OF VIRTUE: THE TEXTUAL VALUE OF CAIUS' COLLATIONS

VI HABENT SUA FATA LIBELLI

VII CONCLUSION

APPENDIX 1 WORKS OF GALEN EDITED OR TRANSLATED BY CAIUS

APPENDIX 2 MANUSCRIPTS OF GALEN SEEN BY CAIUS

APPENDIX 3 WORKS OF GALEN FOR WHICH CAIUS PROVIDES NEW TEXTUAL EVIDENCE.

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Other Format:

Print version: Nutton, Vivian John Caius and the Manuscripts of Galen

ISBN:

9781913701192

1913701190

OCLC:

624458755