Deux nouveaux fragments grecs du Commentaire de Jean d’Alexandrie à Épidémies VI d’Hippocrate

Abstract

This article, accompanied by an editio princeps, French translation and commentary, presents two new Greek fragments of John of Alexandria’s Commentary on the sixth book of Hippocrates’ Epidemics. This Commentary had been considered lost until 1917, when G. Mercati discovered 43 fragments in the margins of Vaticanus gr. 300. This medical manuscript containins the Ephodia, which is a Greek translation of a medical handbook of the 10th century, the Zād al-musāfir composed by Ibn al-Ğazzār. I have been able to identify two new fragments on earache in a Florence manuscript (Laurentianus Plut. 74.10), in which they are found among excerpts from the same Ephodia.