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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception Series Editor Kyriakos N. Demetriou (University of Cyprus) volume 17 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bccr Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos Barbara Zipser LEIDEN | BOSTON Cover illustration: Medallion with the portrait of Galen surrounded by four scholars; Bononiensis 3632 (mid-15th century), fol. 26r. © Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna – Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros. | Zipser, Barbara. Title: Brill’s companion to the Reception of Galen / edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Barbara Zipser. Description: Leiden : Brill, 2019. | Series: Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception ; 17 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019007179 (print) | LCCN 2019008240 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004394353 (E-book) | ISBN 9789004302211 (hardback : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Medicine, Greek and Roman—History. | Medicine, Medieval—History. | Medical literature—Greece. Classification: LCC R138 (ebook) | LCC R138 .B75 2019 (print) | DDC 610.938—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019007179 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 2213-1426 isbn 978-90-04-30221-1 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-39435-3 (e-book) Copyright 2019 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands, except where stated otherwise. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. All rights reserved. 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In memoriam Piero Tassinari ∵ Contents Acknowledgements xi List of Figures xii Latin Abbreviations of Titles of Galenic Works xiii Notes on Contributors xviii Note to the Reader xxvi Introduction 1 Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser part 1 Galen in Late Antiquity and Byzantium 1 Galen’s Early Reception (Second–Third Centuries) 11 Antoine Pietrobelli 2 Galen in Late Antique Medical Handbooks 38 Petros Bouras-Vallianatos 3 Galen’s Legacy in Alexandrian Texts Written in Greek, Latin, and Arabic 62 Ivan Garofalo 4 Galen in Byzantine Medical Literature 86 Petros Bouras-Vallianatos 5 Galen in Byzantine iatrosophia 111 Barbara Zipser 6 Textual Transmission of Galen in Byzantium 124 Paola Degni 7 Galen in Non-medical Byzantine Texts, 600–1453 140 Dionysios Stathakopoulos viii Contents part 2 Galen in the Medieval Islamic World 8 The Reception of Galen in the Syriac Tradition 163 Siam Bhayro 9 Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq and the Creation of an Arabic Galen 179 Glen M. Cooper 10 From Commentary to Polemic: the Reception of Galen by Abū Bakr al-Rāzī 196 Pauline Koetschet 11 Avicenna between Galen and Aristotle 215 Gotthard Strohmaier 12 The Reception of Galen after Avicenna (Eleventh–Twelfth Centuries) 227 Miquel Forcada 13 Maimonides and Galen 244 Y. Tzvi Langermann 14 Galen and Ibn al-Nafīs 263 Nahyan Fancy 15 The Reception of Galen in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah 279 Robert Alessi 16 The Reception of Galenic Pharmacology in the Arabic Tradition 304 Leigh Chipman part 3 Galen in the Medieval West 17 Gloriosissimus Galienus: Galen and Galenic Writings in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Latin West 319 Monica H. Green Contents ix 18 Arabic-Latin Translations: Transmission and Transformation 343 Brian Long 19 Translating Galen in the Medieval West: the Greek-Latin Translations 359 Anna Maria Urso 20 Galen in the Medieval Universities, 1200–1400 381 Michael McVaugh 21 Galenic Pharmacology in the Middle Ages: Galen’s On the Capacities of Simple Drugs and its Reception between the Sixth and Fourteenth Century 393 Iolanda Ventura part 4 Galen in the Renaissance and Beyond 22 Editions and Translations of Galen from 1490 to 1540 437 Stefania Fortuna 23 ‘Galenic’ Forgeries of the Renaissance: an Overview on Commentaries Falsely Attributed to Galen 453 Christina Savino 24 Renaissance Galenism, 1540–1640: Flexibility or an Increasing Irrelevance? 472 Vivian Nutton 25 Galen in an Age of Change (1650–1820) 487 Maria Pia Donato 26 Galen into the Modern World: from Kühn to the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum 508 †Piero Tassinari x Contents part 5 Galen in Other Cultures 27 The Reception of Galen in Hebrew Medieval Scientific Writings 537 Carmen Caballero-Navas 28 The Reception of Galen in the Armenian Tradition (Fifth–Seventeenth Centuries) 559 Alessandro Orengo, with contributions by Irene Tinti 29 Galen in the Late Antique, Byzantine, and Syro-Arabic Alchemical Traditions 577 Matteo Martelli 30 Galen in Asia? 594 Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim 31 Medieval Portraits of Galen 609 Stavros Lazaris Index Rerum et Nominum 639 Index Locorum 657
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