Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Aramaic Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
18,2 (2020) 213-239
Keywords:
Hippocrates
;
Galen
;
Manuscripts, Syriac
;
Medicine History
;
Baldness
;
Turpan Shi (China)
Abstract:
This article presents a full edition, with translation and detailed commentary, of SyrHT 1 and SyrHT 388, the only two Syriac medical fragments found in Turfan. Based on a re-examination of the original text, this article shows that the Turfan fragments have parallels in Galen’s "De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos" and contain elements of Hippocratic recipes as well. This adds further evidence that Syriac Christians had brought Hellenistic medical lore to Turfan at an early date.
DOI:
10.1163/17455227-bja10006
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