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Two Medical Manuscripts
The Hieratic P. Carlsberg 8 and the Coptic Codex P. Carlsberg 500
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This book presents text editions of three medical texts from ancient and late antique Egypt. Two of the texts, written on the recto and verso of the same papyrus, date to the 14th or 13th century BCE and comprise treatises on ophthalmology and gynecology respectively; the third is a Coptic medical treatise from the 5th or 6th century CE that outlines treatments against a wide variety of ailments.
The texts are published in full for the first time, which substantially increases the limited corpus of ancient and late antique medical texts from Egypt. They significantly aid our understanding of the practice of medicine and the conceptualization of disease and treatment in the pre-modern world. The specialized terminology of the treatises also makes them lexicographically valuable, as they present a number of otherwise unattested words.
Sofie Schiødt is a postdoctoral researcher at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and co-director of the international research collaboration Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt in Cross-Cultural Perspective. She specialises in pharaonic medicine, magic, and funerary practices. Her current publication project is the text edition of the second-longest medical text preserved from Egypt, Papyrus Louvre-Carlsberg.
,Anne Grons holds a postdoctoral position at the Institute of the History of Pharmacy and Medicine at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Her research interests lie in Coptic medicine and pharmacy, the history of medicine, and language contact in late antique and medieval Egypt. Her current publication project incorporates a new edition of around forty medical prescription texts in Coptic from various collections worldwide.
- ISBN-13
- 9788763547116
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press
- Imprint
- Museum Tusculanum Press
- Publication date
- 21 June 2024
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 155
- Dimensions
- 297 x 210 mm
- Language
- Egyptian (Ancient)
