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Parchment Codices in a New text of Galen*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2010

MATTHEW NICHOLLS
Affiliation:
m.c.nicholls@reading.ac.uk

Extract

The Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (‘On Consolation From Grief’, henceforward PA) of Galen, recently rediscovered in a fifteenth-century manuscript in a monastery in Thessalonica, contains a wealth of information for the scholar of Roman libraries and books. The work, a treatise on the avoidance of the grief contingent upon loss and suffering, begins by listing the losses suffered by Galen himself in the fire of AD 192. The fire destroyed the Templum Pacis, a series of warehouses and storerooms, and the libraries on the Palatine hill. As Galen had spent much effort copying books from these libraries, and had then deposited his copies in the warehouses that also burned, his work was lost beyond the possibility of recovery.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 2010

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* I am grateful to colleagues who have read this article in draft and offered their comments: Helen King, Pier Luigi Tucci, Vivian Nutton, Laurence Totelin.