This article offers an overview of the manuscripts of Galen preserved in Cardinal Bessarion’s (d. 1472) library, which was donated to the Venetian Republic between 1468 and 1474. Following a description of the manuscripts, which aims to correct and integrate the existing studies, the article focuses on a group of seven manuscripts copied in the last years of Bessarion’s life by several scribes working for him in Rome. The evidence provided here for the first time enables us to better understand an important stage of Galen’s reception in the West, which paved the way to the revolution of medical science in the sixteenth century
The Manuscripts of Galen in the Library of Cardinal Bessarion: A Reappraisal
Giacomelli, Ciro
2021
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This article offers an overview of the manuscripts of Galen preserved in Cardinal Bessarion’s (d. 1472) library, which was donated to the Venetian Republic between 1468 and 1474. Following a description of the manuscripts, which aims to correct and integrate the existing studies, the article focuses on a group of seven manuscripts copied in the last years of Bessarion’s life by several scribes working for him in Rome. The evidence provided here for the first time enables us to better understand an important stage of Galen’s reception in the West, which paved the way to the revolution of medical science in the sixteenth century
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