Greek manuscripts at the Wellcome Library in London: a descriptive catalogue.

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos

doi:10.1017/mdh.2015.6

Abstract

This article presents a new, detailed catalogue of the Greek manuscripts at the Wellcome Library in London. It consists of an introduction to the history of the collection and its scholarly importance, followed by separate entries for each manuscript. Each entry identifies the text(s) found in the respective manuscript – including reference to existing printed edition(s) of such texts – and gives a physical description of the codex, details on its provenance and bibliographical references.

Highlights

The Wellcome Library currently owns sixteen Greek manuscripts.1 These can be divided into two main groups according to their provenance and date of purchase
The first group consists of five volumes (MSS 289, 354, 413, 498 and 4103), all acquired separately between 1910 and 1936, while Sir Henry Wellcome (1853–1936) was still alive
The second group forms the core of the collection and is made up of eleven codices, previously owned by the Medical Society of London [MSS M(edical)S(ociety)L(ondon) 1, 14, 52, 60, 62, 109, 112, 114, 124, 126 and 135].2. These were part of the library’s largest acquisition since Sir Henry Wellcome’s death, viz., about 10 000 books and 200 manuscripts initially transferred on long-term loan to the Wellcome Library in 1967 thanks to the efforts of its director Noel Poynter (1906–79), and purchased in 1984

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Introduction

The Wellcome Library currently owns sixteen Greek manuscripts.1 These can be divided into two main groups according to their provenance and date of purchase. Μετὰ τ(ὸν) τῶν δύο τοῦ συλλογισμοῦ, des. 21 The following chapters, according to the numbering by Barbara Zipser, John the Physician’s Therapeutics: A Medical Handbook in Vernacular Greek (Leiden: Brill, 2009), are missing: 16–21, 55–66, 68–73, 134–7, 143–6, 242–53. Various excerpts have been edited by Barbara Zipser, ‘Magic, infidelity, and secret annotations in a Cypriot manuscripts of the early fourteenth century (Wellcome MSL.14)’, in Steven M.

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