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 Dioscorides
This 15th-century illuminated manuscript is very similar to Dioscorides of Anazarbus’ Late Antique pharmacology manuscript De Materia Medica, which became the standard manual on plants and their medicinal properties. The Herbal in the Tradition of…
Mathematical Tables
The mathematical tables pictured here are most likely from a Christian community and school in Fayyum, Egypt during the 6th or 7th century. The numbers are written in Greek, demonstrating that a student was practicing his or her division tables. The…
Manuscript of Paulus Aegineta Medical Compendium in Seven Books
This 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 that compiled what was written about Medicine at the time. Born in 625 AD, Paulus Aegineta was…
Collection of texts on the calendar
A compilatory manuscript filled with diagrams and notes on astrology and a few different calendars. There are multiple contributors to this collection spanning from the 7th to 15th century. It is written in Armenian Bolorgir script which contains…
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 the Pyrrhonist and Empiric philosopher Sextus Empiricus. The manuscript critiques learning at the…