{"id":6574,"date":"2011-05-27T09:36:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T08:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=6574"},"modified":"2011-05-27T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T08:36:54","slug":"a-newly-discovered-text-by-galen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2011\/05\/27\/a-newly-discovered-text-by-galen\/","title":{"rendered":"A newly discovered text by Galen"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Wilmshurst has drawn my attention<\/a> to a find.\u00a0 It seems that a French scholar discovered a lost work by Galen in a monastery in Thessalonika, not long ago!\u00a0 Apparently there was a Times Literary Supplement article which mentioned it, and I found this word document<\/a> — apparently abstracts from a 2007 Classical Association of South Africa conference — which contained the following item.\u00a0 It seems that Veronique Boudon-Millot<\/a> is the discoverer:<\/p>\n

V\u00e9ronique Boudon-Millot (Paris IV)\u00a0<\/p>\n

THE LIBRARY OF A GREEK SCHOLAR IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE : NEW TESTIMONY FROM THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED GALEN’S PERI ALUPIAS<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Galenic treatise Peri alupias<\/em> (On the avoidance of pain) was regarded as entirely lost, as well in Greek as in Arabic or Latin. The recent discovery of this treatise in an unknown manuscript of Thessaloniki furnishes some new and important material about the workshop and the library of a Greek scholar in Rome in the 2nd century. The aim of this paper is to present the different aspects of the activity of Galen as scholar, physician and surgeon as well as philosopher and to give some details about his main centres of interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, this is not merely a new text, but one that is of wide interest to people like ourselves who are interested in how the ancient world of books worked!<\/p>\n

I need to find out more about this.\u00a0 There ought to be papers on this, I would think.\u00a0 More later.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: There is also an article in PDF here<\/a> about Galen’s Library by the same scholar, who clearly is the discoverer.\u00a0 She refers to:<\/p>\n

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a new manuscript of Galen\u2019s works, Vlatadon 14, which was recently discovered in the Vlatades monastery in Thessaloniki,\u00a0… it is a 281-folio5 manuscript, measuring 305 x 220 mm, dating from the 15th century and probably coming from Constantinople. Written by a number of copyists, it contains about thirty Galenic or pseudo-Galenic treatises. Apart from Peri alupias which can be found in folios 10v to 14v …<\/p>\n

4. See V. Boudon-Millot, \u2018Un trait\u00e9 perdu de Galien miraculeusement retrouv\u00e9, le Sur l\u2019inutilit\u00e9 de se chagriner: texte grec et traduction fran\u00e7aise<\/em>\u2019, in V. Boudon-Millot, A. Guardasole & C. Magdelaine (edd.), La science m\u00e9dicale antique. Nouveaux regards<\/em>. Etudes r\u00e9unies en l\u2019honneur de J. Jouanna (Paris 2007) 72-123.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article contains English versions of much of the interesting material.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UPDATE: It seems that Veronique Boudon is a very busy Galen scholar indeed!\u00a0 Her home page here<\/a> lists many articles, including these two:<\/p>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Galen’s On my own Books : New Material from Meshed, Rida, Tibb. 5223\u00a0\u00bb, in The Unknown Galen, <\/em>Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Unknown Galen\u00a0: Galen beyond K\u00fchn (Thursday & Friday 25-26 November 1999), London, Institute of Classical Studies, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement <\/em>77, 2002, p. 9-18.\u00a0<\/em> [NF4 P520.b.87.68]<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Deux manuscrits m\u00e9dicaux arabes de Meshed (Rida tibb 5223 et 80)\u00a0: nouvelles d\u00e9couvertes sur le texte de Galien\u00a0\u00bb, CRAI<\/em> 2001, fasc. II (avril-juin), p. 1197-1222.\u00a0 (Perhaps this is Comptes rendus de l’Academie des Inscriptions et Belles- Lettres<\/em>?)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is some Arabic new discovery on the most interesting of Galen’s works, On my own books<\/em> (a work which she has edited and translated into French).\u00a0 Mmmm.\u00a0 I so want to read all this material!\u00a0 Isn’t it daft, tho, that it’s all offline?<\/p>\n

Then there are these:<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Un nouveau t\u00e9moin pour l’histoire du texte de l’Ars medica<\/em> de Galien : le Vlatadon <\/em>14\u00a0\u00bb, in L’Ars medica (Tegni) de Galien : lectures antiques et m\u00e9di\u00e9vales, <\/em>textes r\u00e9unis et \u00e9dit\u00e9s par N. Palmieri, Publications de l’Universit\u00e9 de Saint-Etienne, Centre Jean Palerne, M\u00e9moires XXXIII, 2008, p. 11-29.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Un trait\u00e9 perdu de Galien miraculeusement retrouv\u00e9, le Sur l’inutilit\u00e9 de se chagriner <\/em>: texte grec et traduction fran\u00e7aise\u00a0\u00bb, in La science m\u00e9dicale antique : nouveaux regards<\/em>, Etudes r\u00e9unies par V. Boudon-Millot, A. Guardasole et C. Magdelaine en l’honneur de J. Jouanna, Paris, Beauchesne, 2007, p. 72-123.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0The Library and the Workshop of a Greek Scholar in the Roman Empire: New Testimony from the recently discovered Galen’s treatise Peri alupias<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb, in Asklepios. Studies on Ancient Medicine<\/em>, Acta Classica Supplementum II<\/em>, edited by Louise Cilliers, 2008, p. 7-18.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0A Recently Discovered Consolation: Galen\u2019s On the Futility of Grieving\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>, in H. Baltussen (ed.), Acts of Consolation: Approaches to Loss and Sorrow from Sophocles to Shakespeare,<\/em> A collection of papers presented at the International Colloquium (London, 14-15 December 2007), Cambridge University Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suspect the Asklepios<\/em> article is the one I found online.\u00a0 Again, I want to read them all.\u00a0 And I can’t even access them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Wilmshurst has drawn my attention to a find.\u00a0 It seems that a French scholar discovered a lost work by Galen in a monastery in Thessalonika, not long ago!\u00a0 Apparently there was a Times Literary Supplement article which mentioned it, and I found this word document — apparently abstracts from a 2007 Classical Association of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[736,1075],"class_list":["post-6574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-world","tag-galen","tag-manuscripts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}