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Gesius’ Commentaries on Galen: Recovering lost works through a mixed-method approach

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f Galen’s texts. By using a mixed method approach, we propose to make the erased texts readable again, and then edit, translate and study them. Combining multispectral image capture and analysis with machine learning techniques, we will be able to transcribe these lost texts in full and, in the process, reconstruct the original manuscript. We shall study Gesius’ works in the context of medicine in late antique Alexandria and place it in a tradition where commentaries, abrigments, branch diagrams and encyclopaedias were all employed to impart medical knowledge. Finally, these Syriac translations offer us an opportunity to study how the Sixteen Books of Galen were transmitted into Syriac, and what role they played in Graeco-Arabic translations. We will thus study Gesius’ role as the chief medical authority in Alexandria and his subsequent influence, in order to judge his place in history on the basis of his own writings for the very first time. History of medicine, late antique Alexandria, palimpsest studies, Syriac, translation studies, Gesius, Galen, Graeco-Arabic studies

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