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Galen's de Constitutione Artis Medicae in the Renaissance*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Stefania Fortuna
Stefania Fortuna
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During the sixteenth century Galen's De constitutione artis medicae (i.224–304 Kühn) enjoyed a great success: in about fifty years it received four different Latin translations and three commentaries. Certainly this is also true of other medical classical texts, but such success is surprising for a treatise which did not have a wide circulation either in the Middle Ages or in the seventeenth century and later. In fact it is preserved in its entirety in only one Greek manuscript (Florence, Laur. plut. 74.3 = L of the twelfth or thirteenth century, with later corrections = L) and in a Latin translation by Niccolò of Reggio, who worked mainly for King Robert I in Naples in the first half of the fourteenth century. Furthermore, in his edition of 1679 René Chartier made a mistake, which the humanistic editors of the Greek Galen had avoided. The last part of the De const, art. med. itself enjoyed a considerable fortuna as an independent tract on prognosis in the Greek and Latin manuscript tradition. The editors of the Aldine and the Basle editions knew such an excerptum, at least in the manuscript Par. gr. 2165 (= P) of the sixteenth century, and rightly decided not to print it. Chartier found it in the manuscript Par. gr. 2269 of the fifteenth or sixteenth century, and published it in the wrong belief that it was a new treatise of Galen's (vol. ii. 170–95 = viii.891–5). He was followed by Carl Gottlob Kühn in his edition of 1821, who printed the De const, art. med. in the first volume (289–304) and the De praesagitura in vol. xix.497–511. The error was not publicly detected until Kalbfleisch in 1896.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , May 1993 , pp. 302 - 319
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64 The quoted bibliography is not coherent on this point, and I am not able to verify it. Did Vallériole study in Montpellier in 1522, as Cuvelier suggests, or did he have a degree honoris causa after 1572, as Dulieu writes?

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74 These two readings are not in the Giuntine of 1556, and hence it is unlikely that they are in the previous editions of 1541 and 1550, which I have not seen.

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