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Ce n'est qu'en 1934 que Henry Sigerist attira l'attention sur le co<strong>de</strong> ambrosien<br />

(O. Temkin parle <strong>de</strong> "rediscovery of these texts") en observant : "All the scholars who<br />

examined this manuscript were interested in Hippocrates. But the second part of the<br />

manuscript proved to be far more important than the beginning... Our manuscript was<br />

written at the end of the 9th century, but in all probability it is not an original, but a<br />

copy of an ol<strong>de</strong>r manuscript". Et sur la base <strong>de</strong> l'extraordinaire ressemblance entre le<br />

latin du manuscrit milanais et celui <strong>de</strong>s traductions latines d'Oribase, que M. Moerland<br />

démontra qu'elles avaient été exécutées à Ravenne vers le Vie siècle, il terminait par<br />

cette affirmation : "There can be no doubt... that in the history of early medieval medicine,<br />

Ravenna in the 6th century played a very important part", et encore il observe<br />

avec une extrême perspicacité : "the way the medical classics were interpreted there,<br />

remind us very much of Alexandria, and Ravenna, therefore, appears as a western<br />

Alexandria".<br />

H. Sigerist se proposait <strong>de</strong> dormer l'édition critique du texte, mais il n'arriva pas à<br />

réaliser son projet. Le manuscrit ambrosien fut réexaminé d'abord par O. Temkin (en<br />

250<br />

Manuscrit G. 108 inf. (f. 91 r) <strong>de</strong> la <strong>Bibliothèque</strong> Ambrosiana <strong>de</strong> Milan :<br />

le colophon du traité Ars medica <strong>de</strong> Galien.

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