Works by Galen and Hippocrates

Title

Works by Galen and Hippocrates

Shelfmark

MS. Holkham Gr. 92

Date

16th century

Language

Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Paper

Physical extent

ii + 487 + i (endleaf fol. as fol. 488)

Hands

Κωνσταντῖνος Μεσοβώτης, RGK I, 224; RGK II, 315; RGK III, 363

Binding

Holkham binding of brown leather, with Coke family ostrich crest in gilt in the centre of the upper cover; Date: early nineteenth century. Rebound by John Jones of Liverpool (worked for Holkham 1816–1823.The spine lettered in gilt: / HIPPOCRATIS/ QUÆDAM GRÆCA//MS./ SÆC. XV./; in pasted black leather: MS. /HOLKHAM/ Gr. 92

Provenance

Monastery of San Giovanni di Verdara in Padua. The MS is to be identified with ‘Bibl. S. Joannis in Viridario ad. dextr. plut. XVII’, which was considered initially lost (H. Diels, Die Handschriften der antiken Ärzte, I. Teil: Hippokrates und Galenos, Abh. d. Königl. Preuß. Akademie d. Wiss. 1905, phil.-hist. Kl. 3, Berlin, 1905, pp. 3, 5, 13, 21, 30 and H. Diels, Die Handschriften der antiken Ärzte, II. Teil: Die übrigen griechischen Ärzte außer Hippokrates und Galenos, Abh. d. Königl. Preuß. Akademie d. Wiss. Berlin, 1906, phil.-hist. Kl. 1, Berlin, 1906, p. 77). It was identified as Holkham 282 (= old number before the MSS were moved to Oxford) in H. Diels, Bericht über den Stand des interakademischen Corpus medicorum antiquorum und Erster Nachtrag zu den in den Abhandlungen 1905 und 1906 veröffentlichten Katalogen: Die Handschriften der antiken Ärzte, I. und II. Teil, Abh. d. Königl. Preuß. Akademie d. Wiss. 1907, Berlin, 1908, p. 25, 26. See also M. R. Formentin, I codici greci di medicina nelle tre Venezie, Padua, 1978, p. 19; C. Magdelaine, Histoire du texte et édition critique, traduite et commentée, des Aphorismes d'Hippocrate, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Paris 4, Paris, 1994, p. 88, fn. 88 and J. Jouanna, Hippocrate La nature de l'homme, Berlin, 2002, p. 62, fn 4, and A. Touwaide, A census of Greek medical manuscripts: from Byzantium to the Renaissance, Medicine in the medieval mediterranean 6, London, New York, 2016, p. 89 [0403], pp. 187–188 [0886], p. 193 [0903]. The MS alongside MS. Holkham Gr. 97 and MS. Holkham Gr. 116 was purchased by Thomas Coke in 1717 at Padua. See S. de Ricci, A handlist of manuscripts in the library of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall: abstracted from the catalogues of William Roscoe and Frederic Madden (Supplement to the Bibliographical Society's Transactions, 7, Oxford, 1932), pp. ix-x . See also E. Mioni, Bibliothecae Divi Marci Venetiarum codices graeci manuscripti, vol. 1.1, Rome, 1967, Appendix, tab. V, and D. Marcotte, ‘La Bibliothèque de Jean Calphurnius’, Humanistica Lovaniensia 36 (1987) 185.

Olim [Bibl. S. Joannis in Viridario ad. dextr. plut. XVII] ; front paste down (in pencil): MS Holkham Gr. 92; fol. i(r): (in pencil) No. 281 (sup lin 2) D2 B8 ; Olim Holkham Hall, Libr. of the Earl of Leicester, 282. MS Holkham Gr. 92 is an apograph of Vat. Gr. 276. See A. Pietrobelli, ‘Contaminations dans la tradition du commentaire de Galien au 'Régime des maladies aiguës' d'Hippocrate᾽, in A. Roselli (ed.) Storia della tradizione e edizione dei medici greci. Atti del VI Colloquio internazionale, Paris 12–14 aprile 2008, Collectanea 27, Napoli, 2010, p. 173, fn. 23. MS Holkham Gr. 92 was used together with Par. Gr. 2141 (=G) in the Aldine edition for treatises absent from G. See P. Potter, ‘The editiones principes of Galen and Hippocrates and their relationship, Text and Tradition’ in Text and Tradition: Studies in Ancient Medicine and Its Transmission: Presented to Jutta Kollesch (Studies in Ancient Medicine, V. 18), Leiden, Boston, Cologne, 1998, p. 244, esp. fns 3 and 4.