Ricerc@Sapienza

The 14th century manuscript Urbinas gr. 68, which contains texts belonging to the Hippocratic Collection, appears to be a very interesting source for the history of late antique and middle byzantine exegetical activity on medical texts. Among the various scholia it preserves, I will analyze and contextualize in particular the scholion to the beginning of the Praecepta, transmitted only in this manuscript (ff. 26v-27r). In fact, this scholion-text constitutes a unique and precious testimony of the exegetical activity on the Hippocratic Praecepta.