Exploring the medical excerpta et opuscula in the Greek manuscript collection of the Estense Library and their connections with Giorgio Valla’s œuvre – Part 2: MUT. GR. 213, ff. 235v-237r

Abstract

Following up on the scope of the previous paper, this study will focus on two medical texts contained in Mut. gr. 213, ff 235V-237r mostly through the lens of their textual transmission. My analysis has identified in the first text (f. 235v) a brief twofold compilation based on Aetius of Amida’s Libri Medicinales on the prognosis of favourable and unfavourable signis in diseases (a. Περὶ προγνοστικῶν σημείων ὑγείας τε καὶ ζωῆς τῶν ἀρρώστων, b. Σημεία θανάτου), while the second text offers a new witness of the short anonymous treatise De constitutione mundi et hominis (Περὶ τῆς κατασκευῆς τοῦ κόσμου καὶ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου) already edited in 1841 by J. L. Ideler (partly) and in 2006 J. Jouanna, used by Valla as a source in his encyclopedia De expetendis et fugiendis rebus opus (1501).