Academic Texts
Dublin Core
Title
Academic Texts
Description
These academic and educational works are texts that relate to the understanding and teaching of scientific knowledge. This includes subjects such as medicine, timekeeping, and healing. Many of these texts are books, while others are tablets or single manuscript leaves. Some of these works had the purpose of instructing and directing others on how to perform medicine and provide healing, while others are detailed calendars. The recording of text in the Byzantine era was very different from the current understanding of writing. Each of these pieces took a great deal of time, effort, and craftsmanship.
Contributor
Grace Luzcando
Collection Items
Herbal in the tradition of DioscoridesThis 15th-century illuminated manuscript is very similar to Dioscorides of Anazarbus’ Late Antique pharmacology manuscript De Materia Medica, which…
Mathematical TablesThe mathematical tables pictured here are most likely from a Christian community and school in Fayyum, Egypt during the 6th or 7th century. The…
Manuscript of Paulus Aegineta Medical Compendium in Seven BooksThis is a single leaf of a paper manuscript from a 15th-century copy of surgeon Paulus Aegineta’s Medical Compendium in Seven Books, a medical text…
Collection of texts on the calendarA compilatory manuscript filled with diagrams and notes on astrology and a few different calendars. There are multiple contributors to this collection…
Pros mathēmatikous (Against The Professors)The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Russia, Isidore of Kiev, copied the second century Pros mathēmatikous (Against the Professors) originally written by…