Greek Manuscripts at the Wellcome Library in London: A Descriptive Catalogue

• Medical History / Volume 59 / Issue 02 / April 2015, pp 275-326
• Copyright © The Author 2015. Published by Cambridge University Press. The online version of this article is published within an Open Access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution licence <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>.
• DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2015.6 (About DOI), Published online: March 2015

Abstract

This article presents a new, detailed catalogue of the Greek manuscripts at the Wellcome Library in London. It consists of an introduction to the history of the collection and its scholarly importance, followed by separate entries for each manuscript. Each entry identifies the text(s) found in the respective manuscript – including reference to existing printed edition(s) of such texts – and gives a physical description of the codex, details on its provenance and bibliographical references.