The digital outputs of the AHRC-funded project The Syriac Galen Palimpsest based at the University of Manchester from 2015 to 2020 are now available. Our multidisciplinary team used cutting-edge imaging techniques to recover the erased text from a unique manuscript and restore a valuable witness to the scientific heritage of the Syriac Christian world. The
New publication: Naima Afif, Peter E. Pormann, William I. Sellers, Natalia Smelova, Siam Bhayro, “GalenQt. A New Software Tool for Recovering Lost Text and its Use for the Reconstruction of the Lacuna in Galen’s Simple Drugs, Book 8”, in C. Rapp, J. Gruskova, G. Kessel, G. Rossetto (eds), New Light on Old Manuscripts: Recent Advances
As part of my collaboration with the GREgORI Project (which provides scholars with lemmatized corpora in many languages!), I have worked with Bastien Kindt on the lemmatisation and morphological analysis of: Books 1 (ch. 1-10), 6, 7, 8 of the Greek text of Galen’s On Simple Drugs and Discourse 13 (S2 version) of Gregory of Nazianzus
New publication: Naima Afif, Peter E. Pormann, William I. Sellers, Natalia Smelova, Siam Bhayro, « The Syriac Text of Book Nine of On Simple Drugs. New Evidence from the Syriac Galen Palimpsest » in Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences (Galen’s Treatise On Simple Drugs: Interpretation and Transmission), 70/184-185, 2020, pp. 130-149. Access through the publisher’s website.
Discover how our research team at the University of Manchester is uncovering the lost heritage of Syriac Christians through the exhibition ‘Seeing the Invisible’. Curated by Professor Peter Pormann and Dr Natalia Smelova, the exhibition will run from October 2019 to March 2020 at the John Rylands Library and will display the Syriac Galen palimpsest
The Syriac Galen Palimpsest is an exceptional manuscript containing the Syriac translation of a pharmacological treatise by Galen. Our team at the University of Manchester is organising a two-day conference under the auspices of the British Academy. This conference will gather scientists and humanities scholars who will discuss the methods employed to decipher the
Our latest paper in now published: A. Afif, S. Bhayro, P. E. Pormann, W. I. Sellers, N. Smelova, « On Digamma and the Armenian Earth », in Le Muséon, 131 (2018), p. 391-414. Abstract: The treatise On the Mixture and Power of Simple Drugs (Περὶ κράσεως καὶ δυνάμεως τῶν ἁπλῶν φαρμάκων) by Galen of Pergamum (129-216) is
Our team at the University of Manchester had the great opportunity to collaborate with the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory . The aim was to perform rapid-scan X-ray fluorescence (XRF) imaging of several folios from the Syriac Galen Palimpsest which were so far unreadable. The initiative has received press coverage
J’ai eu l’occasion d’utiliser les outils du Gregori-Project (UCL) développés pour la lemmatisation du syriaque en travaillant sur le Discours 13 de Grégoire de Nazianze. La concordance bilingue grec-syriaque du texte est disponible gratuitement sur la page https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/ciol/the-concordances-of-the-gregori-project.html
Je suis ravie d’avoir contribué à la lemmatisation d’une partie du traité de Galien Sur les médicaments simples en grec avec Bastien Kindt. La version PDF de la concordance des livres I (Chap. 1-10), VI, VII et VIII est désormais disponible en ligne et en libre accès sur la page https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/ciol/the-concordances-of-the-gregori-project.html Ce travail a été
Le support de mon intervention à Rome concernant le neuvième livre du traité Sur les médicaments simples dans le palimpseste syriaque de Galien (SGP) est accessible via Slideshare. Trois points principaux sont abordés: l’étendue du livre neuf dans le palimpseste; la structure et la mise en page du texte ; le contenu conservé dans le
L’université de Warwick organise un workshop international sur la pharmacologie ancienne, la transmission et la réception du traité de Galien Sur les médicaments simples à la British School de Rome ce vendredi 27 septembre 2017. Lors de cette journée, je présenterai les derniers résultats du SGP Project sur le livre IX en syriaque. Pour toute