Hippocratic commentaries in the Greek, Latin, Syriac and Arabic traditions : selected papers from the XVth Colloque hippocratique, Manchester / edited by Peter E. Pormann.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

382 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Introduction / Peter E. Pormann -- Reflections on Hippocratic commentary / Elizabeth Craik -- Asclepiades of Bithynia as Hippocratic commentator / David Leith -- Sabinus 'the Hippocratic' : his exegetical method in the Commentaries on Hippocrates / Tommaso Raiola -- Galen as commentator of commentaries : the case of the Hippocratic Epidemics 1 and 3 / Jacques Jouanna -- A new commentary on the Hippocratic Oath attributed to Galen / Caroline Magdelaine and Jean-Michel Mouton -- Behind and beyond the commentary : Galen on Hippocrates on the elements / Peter N. Singer -- Galen the Hippocratic : textual analysis and the practice of commentary / R.J. Hankinson -- Galen's Hippocratic 'commentary' on The capacities of the soul depend on the mixtures of the body / Ralph M. Rosen -- Commenting beyond the commentary : Galen's exegetical strategies in Difficulties in breathing / Daniela Manetti -- Types of cranial injuries in the Hippocratic Wounds in the head in light of the ancient commentary tradition / Mathias Witt -- Galen's surgical commentaries on Hippocrates / Amneris Roselli -- Galen and Ps.-Galen in conversation : Epidemics 2.3.2 and Aphorisms 4.5 / Véronique Boudon-Millot -- Ancient medicine in the Galenic corpus : the Story of a concealment / Sabrina Grimaudo -- A new anonymous prologue to the commentary on the Hippocratic aphorisms in the Harleianus 6295 / Giulia Ecca -- On the authorship of the Syriac Prognostic / Kamran I. Karimullah -- The Latin commentary by Pedro Jaime Esteve on the second book of the Hippocratic Epidemics (Valencia, 1551) / María Teresa Santamaría Hernández -- The first complete Renaissance commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics / Jesús Ángel y Espinós.

Includes bibliographical references and index.