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Editor: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos.
This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Collection, London. The content of these manuscripts ranges from medicine, including theories on diagnosis and treatment of disease, to astronomy, philosophy, and poetry. With texts dating from the ancient era to the Byzantine and Ottoman worlds, each manuscript provides its own unique story, opening a window onto different social and cultural milieus. All chapters are illustrated with black and white and colour figures, highlighting some of the most significant codices in the collection.
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos is Wellcome Lecturer in History of Medicine at The University of Edinburgh.
First published 2020
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Names: Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros, editor.
Title: Exploring Greek manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London / edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019059089 (print) | LCCN 2019059090 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138601598 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429470035 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Wellcome Library. | Manuscripts, Greek--England--London. | Paleography, Greek.
Classification: LCC Z6621.W383 G744 2020 (print) | LCC Z6621.W383 (ebook) | DDC 011/.31--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019059089
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019059090
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Paschal table with concentric circles, from Londiniensis Wellcomensis MS.MSL.60, f. 61r.
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Monographs, or book chapters, which are outputs of Wellcome Trust funding have been made freely available as part of the Wellcome Trust's open access policy
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