The Michigan Medical Codex: P. Mich. Inv. 21 - Corso di Papirologia

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The Michigan Medical Codex 125 remaining eighteen recipes were taken by Galen from a collection of Andro machos, who incorporated recipes of Alcimion, Telephanes, and Pouplius among those of his own. In like manner our codex contains the parygron of Heras,10) the Azanites recipe,11) an unknown rrnyovnp& (rue) plaster from the second book of Dionysius,12) an unknown VrLOUXCA)TLX plaster of the physician Hygi 13) 14) enuis, a CLaOL (grey) plaster of Heras, and the v4r-X'vn (yellow) plaster of Telamon.15) Our codex was perhaps privately commissioned by the physician-owner who intended to collate it with its exemplar and to add further recipes from other collections which he had at his disposal.16) The text contains errors on almost every page, some corrected by the scribe, some by the owner, and others left uncorrected. The errors are more numerous than would normally I be allowable in a well-written text by a professional scribe. srb.17) But in spite of errors the text maintains the remarkable adherence to the traditional recipes which is characteristic of the medical texts on papyrus.18) 10) For this recipe see A, 6-13. The attribution to Heras was omitted as it was also in E, 5, where 'Hpa was added by the second hand at the beginning of the line in the space left by the indention of the line. 11) See 21 B. 12) Only the title of the recipe is preserved in 21 C, 7, and apparently no "recipe with rue" attributed to Dionysius is to be found in any of the ancient medical writers. 13) For the known recipes of Hygienus see 21 D, note to line 4. 14) See 21 E, 5-8, with commentary. 15) See footnote 8. The identification of this recipe is not entirely certain. For the occurrence in papyri of known physicians prior to the second century A.D. see I.Andorlini, L'apporto dei papiri alla conoscenza dei medici pregalenici, Atti del XVII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia, II (Napoli, 1984) 351-355. 16) On texts privately commissioned for working purposes see E.G.Turner, Greek Papyri: An Introduction (Princeton, 1968), p.96. 17) Cf. E.G.Turner, Greek Papyri, p.95 18) Cf. A.E.Hanson, Papyri of Medical Content, Yale Classical Studies, vol. 28, 1985, p.28.
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