fglaze · 10.10.2013, 18:56:35

Manzanero Cano, in his difficult-to-access Madrid dissertation, investigates the origins of the Liber Esculapii, one of Gariopontus's chief source texts. He concludes that the Liber Esculapii was produced s. VI ex.-VII in., probably in N. Italy, by one who knew both medicine and Greek, and apparently for pedagogical purposes. He argues the Liber Esculapii itself is a compilation of materials from various sectarian schools of thought, including Caelius Aurelianus (Methodism), derivative Dogmatist ideas, and possibly some versions of Galenic and Hippocratic sources in Latin form. He considers whether the same compiler might also have produced the Liber Aurelii. In analyzing his stemma, Manzanero Cano contests some arguments in Pierre Schmid's 1942 thesis on Caelius Aurelianus regarding the age, quality and family of the manuscripts Gariopontus appears to have utilized. He suggests that Gariopontus utilized a Liber Esculapii (possibly 2 manuscripts) that was closer to his stemma's Group γ, subgroup η than to subgroup ζ.

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