GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)

1984 CE

#2663

Galen on respiration and the arteries. An edition with English translation and commentary of De usu respirationis, An in arteriis natura sanguis contineatur, De usu pulsuum, and De causis respirationis, by David J. Furley and J. S. Wilkie.

Galen's system of medicine based on the minutiae of pulse variations persisted into the 18th century.

1986 CE

#8235

Galen on bloodletting: A study of the origins, development and validity of his opinions, with a translation of the three works

Bloodletting is thought to have been practiced by Greek physicians of the 5th century BCE. This study includes translation of Galeni de venae sectione adversus Erasistratum liber (162-163 CE), Galeni de venae sectione…

1991 CE

#9096

Galen on the therapeutic method. Books I and II. Translated with an introduction and commentary by R. J. Hankinson.

First translation into a modern language of Books ! and II of De methodo medendi. Very extensive introduction, commentary and bibliography.

1992 CE

#8441

Galenus Latinus II: Burgundio of Pisa's translation of Galen 's ΠEPI TΩN ΠEΠONΘΩN TOΠΩN, "De interioribus." Edited with introduction and indices by R. J. Durling. 2 vols.

1993 CE

#9963

A dictionary of medical terms in Galen.

1997 CE

#8225

Corpus Galenicum: Verzeichnis der galenischen und pseudogalenischen Schriften.

Revised edition 12/2012 is available online at this link: http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publications/Galen-Bibliographie_2012_08_28.pdf

1997 CE

#9609

Galen on pharmacology: Philosophy, history and medicine. Proceedings of the Vth International Galen Colloquium, Lille, 16-18 March 1995. Edited by Armelle Debru.

1998 CE

#9125

Galen on antecedent causes. Introduction, text, translation and commentary by R. J. Hankinson.

1998 CE

#11253

Stephanus the philosopher and physician: Commentary on Galen's Therapeutics to Glaucon

"An edition of the Commentary by Stephanus of Athens, the seventh-century physician and philosopher, on Book One of Galen's Therapeutics to Glaucon. It comprises introduction, Greek text with critical apparatus and in…

1999 CE

#9127

Galen. On my own opinions. Galeni De propriis placitis. Edition, introduction and translation by Vivian Nutton. CMG 5.3.2.

De propriis placitis is Galen's final work in which he reflected on some of the fundamental medical problems that occupied him throughout his long career. "This treatise is not quite the comprehensive survey of a life…

2002 CE

#8231

The unknown Galen. Edited by Vivian Nutton.

2003 CE

#10758

On the properties of foodstuffs (De alimentorum facultatibus). Introduction, translation and commentary by Owen Powell.

2005 CE

#12170

Agnellus de Ravenne. Lectures galéniques: le «De pulsibus ad tirones». Introduction, texte latin (adiuuante Ivan Garofalo), traduction française, notes explicatives, bibliographie et index par Nicoletta Palmieri, «Mémoires XXVIII du Centre Jean Palerne».

2006 CE

#9614

Galen: On diseases and symptoms. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston.

2007 CE

#11082

Shock and awe: The performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations. (Version 5; January 2007.)

Digital edition available from princeton.edu at this link: http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/gleason/010702.pdf

2009 CE

#10075

Galen and the world of knowledge. Edited by Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh and John Wilkins.

Among the numerous essays in this volume are those by Vivian Nutton on Galen's Library and on Galen's bibiography of his own writings by Jason König.

2011 CE

#9314

Galen, De diebus decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic. A critical edition, with translation and commentary of Hunayn ibn Ishāq, Kitāb ayyām al-buhrān, by Glen M. Cooper.

First printed edition of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic translation of Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis), a founding text of astrological medicine, together with the first translation of the text into a modern …

2011 CE

#9611

Galen: Method of medicine. Books 1-4, Books 5-9, Books 10-14. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston and G. H. R. Horsley. 3 vols.

2011 CE

#9081

Galen: On the anomalous dyskrasia (De inaequali intemperie). Editio maior. Edition, translation and commentary by Elsa Garcia Novo.

First critical edition and translation of this text by Galen which became a bestseller in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (translations into Syrian, Arabic, Latin 8 versions and Hebrew; 14 commentaries from 1290 t…

2012 CE

#8257

Galen: On problematical movements. Edited with introduction and commentary by Vivian Nutton, with an edition of the Arabic version by Gerrit Bos.

2012 CE

#12826

Latin editions of Galen's Opera omnia (1490-1625) and their prefaces.

Analysis of publishing and editorial aspects of the many editions of Galen's collected works published during the height of Galen's influence after the invention of printing. This filled a gap in Galenic bibliography …

2013 CE

#7691

Galen's psychological writings: Avoiding distress, Character traits, The diagnosis and treatment of the affections and errors peculiar to each person's soul, The capacites of the soul depend upon the mixtures of the body. Edited by P. N. Singer. Translated with introductions and notes by Vivian Nutton, Daniel Davies and P. N. Singer.

In 2005 a long lost treatise by Galen, entitled Περι αλυπιας (Avoiding distress), was discovered in the Monastery of the Vlatades (Moni Vlatadon) in Thessa…

2015 CE

#8291

The Alexandrian summaries of Galen’s On critical days. Editions and translations of the two versions of the JAWĀMIʿ, with an introduction and notes by Gerrit Bos and Y. Tzvi Langermann.

"Galen's impact on Islamic civilization, mainly on medicine but also on physics and philosophy, was enormous. His most important books were mediated through "summaries" which not only shortened, but in some cases also…

2016 CE

#9610

Galen: On the constitution of the art of medicine. The art of medicine. A method of medicine to Glaucon. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston.

2016 CE

#8233

Hunayn ibn Ishāq on his Galen translations: A parallel English-Arabic text edited and translated by John C. Lamoreaux, with an appendix by Grigory Kessel.

2017 CE

#8573

GALENO: Catalogo delle Traduzioni Latine.

http://www.galenolatino.com/index.php?id=2&clean=1 This electronic bibliography covers Latin translations of Galen (129-216) and the pseudo-Galen from Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, produced from the sixth to the seventeen…

2018 CE

#9613

GALEN: Hygiene. Books 1-4, Books 5-6. Thrasybulus on exercise with a small ball. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston. 2 vols.

2019 CE

#11080

Brill's companion to the reception of Galen. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser.

This collective work shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticized across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe …

2020 CE

#13497

Galen: A thinking doctor in Imperial Rome

A very readable and relatively brief, but comprehensive, biography. The appendix provides a complete list of Galen's works with their titles in Latin, also in English translation, correlated to the best editions and t…

c. 850 CE

#6900

The Syriac Galen palimpsest.

This ninth century palimpsest codex contains as its undertext a text of Galen's On Simple Drugs in the Syriac translation by Sergius of Reshaina. It has not yet been formally published. For further information see the…