Revealing Galen’s Simples

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Revealing Galen’s Simples Saturday, April 30, 2016; 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM	Page from the Galen Palimpsest in natural color and after processing to reveal the under text (2015).
An article published in the New York Times on June 1, 2015, described the discovery of a Syriac manuscript that contained the oldest known translation of Galen’s On the Mixtures and Powers of Simple Drugs. The text of this manuscript was erased in the eleventh century. Scientists and scholars from around the world are working to recover it. This symposium will feature the manuscript itself and presentations by imaging specialists, Syriac scholars, and historians of medicine working to reveal the secrets of this challenging manuscript. The weekend of our conference will be extremely busy on the Penn campus and some roads may be closed because of an athletics event. We earnestly advise you to walk or take public transport to the campus rather than driving. \| Registration \| Schedule Saturday, April 30, 2016 9:00-9:30 am Coffee Session 1: Galen, Greek Medicine, and the Syriac Palimpsest (session chair: Will Noel) 9:30-10:00 Ralph Rosen (Penn, Classical Studies) and Peter Singer (London), Galen and the Greek Medical Tradition 10:00-10:30 William Noel (Penn, Kislak Center), New Science meets Old Science: Ancient Manuscripts and Digital Technology 10:30-10:45 Discussion 10:45-11:00 am Coffee Session 2: Galen’s Simples Revealed (session chair: Michael Toth, R. B. Toth Associates) 11:00-11:10 Michael Toth (R. B. Toth Associates), Digitization and Access 11:10-11:40 Renee Wolcott (Philadelphia), The Syriac Galen Palimpsest 11:40-12:10 Roger Easton (Rochester), Imaging the Syriac Galen Palimpsest 12:10-12:40 Siam Bhayro (Exeter), Discovering Galen’s Simples 12:40-1:00 Discussion 1:00-2:30 pm Lunch (on your own) Galen Palimpsest on display in the Lea Library Session 3: New Discoveries (session chair: Ralph Rosen) 2:30-2:50 Michael Toth (R. B. Toth Associates), The New Program, the New Leaves 2:50-3:10 Peter Pormann (Manchester), The Final Frontier: Galen’s Syriac Versions and Graeco-Arabic Translation Technique 3:10-3:30 Robert Hawley, Irene Calà, and Jimmy Daccache (Paris), The Textual Interest of the Syriac Versions of Galen’s Simples 3:30-4:00 Discussion, Coffee Session 4: Digitizing Galen (session chair: Keith Knox) 4:00-4:20 Douglas Emery (Penn, Kislak Center), Open Galen: The Digital Manuscript 4:20-4:40 William Sellers (Manchester), Working with the Data 4:40-5:00 Corneliu Arsene (Manchester), Revealing the Palimpsest 5:00-5:30 pm Discussion and Closing Remarks (Ralph Rosen)
Class of 1978 Pavilion Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA Free and open to the public (please show photo ID at entrance)

Source : http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/galen.html

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