The Syriac Text of Book Nine of On Simple Drugs. New Evidence from the Syriac Galen Palimpsest
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The Syriac Text of Book Nine of On Simple Drugs. New Evidence from the Syriac Galen Palimpsest. / Afif, Naima; Bhayro, Siam; Pormann, Peter E. ; Sellers, William I.; Smelova, Natalia.
I: Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, Bind 70, Nr. 184-185, 2020, s. 130-149.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The Syriac Text of Book Nine of On Simple Drugs. New Evidence from the Syriac Galen Palimpsest
AU - Afif, Naima
AU - Bhayro, Siam
AU - Pormann, Peter E.
AU - Sellers, William I.
AU - Smelova, Natalia
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The Syriac Galen Palimpsest (SGP), a privately owned manuscript containing parts of books 2-9 of Galen’s Simple Drugs in Syriac translation, offers important evidence to the reconstruction of the Greek text of book 9. Roughly half the book survives in it, and the article discusses the methodology used to reconstruct the often poorly visible Syriac text, combining computational tools for text and image analysis. In particular, the creation of a lemmatised bilingual Greek-Syriac corpus provides an important heuristic tool for the reconstruction of the text. The Syriac version of two chapters from book 9, ‘on stones in sponges’ and ‘on ostracite’, are edited here for the first time and used to illustrate the challenges and the opportunities that the SGP offers not just for the study of the Greek textual history, but also the transmission from Greek into Arabic
AB - The Syriac Galen Palimpsest (SGP), a privately owned manuscript containing parts of books 2-9 of Galen’s Simple Drugs in Syriac translation, offers important evidence to the reconstruction of the Greek text of book 9. Roughly half the book survives in it, and the article discusses the methodology used to reconstruct the often poorly visible Syriac text, combining computational tools for text and image analysis. In particular, the creation of a lemmatised bilingual Greek-Syriac corpus provides an important heuristic tool for the reconstruction of the text. The Syriac version of two chapters from book 9, ‘on stones in sponges’ and ‘on ostracite’, are edited here for the first time and used to illustrate the challenges and the opportunities that the SGP offers not just for the study of the Greek textual history, but also the transmission from Greek into Arabic
U2 - 10.1484/J.ARIHS.5.122784
DO - 10.1484/J.ARIHS.5.122784
M3 - Journal article
VL - 70
SP - 130
EP - 149
JO - Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences
JF - Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences
SN - 0003-9810
IS - 184-185
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