Galenic corpus
The Galenic corpus is the collection of writings of Galen, a prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire during the second century CE. Several of the works were written between 165–175 CE.
Description
Galen produced more work than any author in antiquity, His surviving work runs to over 2.6 million words, and many more of his writings are now lost.Karl Gottlob Kühn of Leipzig published an edition of 122 of Galen's writings between 1821 and 1833. His edition, which is the most complete, although flawed, consists of the Greek text with facing-page Latin translation. The text and translation are mainly taken from the edition of Chartier 1638—39, Paris. Kühn's edition runs to 22 volumes, 676 index pages, being over 20,000 pages in length. More modern projects like the have still to match the Kühn edition. A digital version of the Galenic corpus, largely taken from Kühn's edition but using newer editions where available, is included in the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, a digital library of Greek literature started in 1972. Another useful modern source is the French . According to Susan Mattern the most modern edition of the Galenic corpus is one-eighth of all classical Greek literature that survives.
List
With Greek and Latin Titles and standardized bibliographical abbreviations: . See also Cambridge Companion to Galen: Appendices. Vol. and pp. notation according to Kühn edition). Ordered according to Coxe's taxonomy of 1846, which includes a summary of each work. Alternative names in. Italicised citations from Galen's works refer to the Kühn edition.Galen's own Bibliographies
- On My Own Books
- On the Order of my Own Books
VII: Therapeutics
Fragments
Other (not in Coxe taxonomy)
Hippocratic commentariesCollections
Collections
- Kühn, C.G. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia. Leipzig: C. Cnobloch, 1821–1833, rpt. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1964-5. Editio Kuchniana Lipsiae
- Galeni Scripta Minora. Leipzig 1884-93 3 vols. SM
- Brock AJ. Greek Medicine, Being Extracts Illustrative of Medical Writers from Hippocrates to Galen. 1929
- Singer PN Selected works by Galen. OUP 1997
BIUM Online sources
- studies and digitized texts by the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé see its digital library .
- by the with further links to digitized editions, manuscripts and modern translations.