In the 1540s, in order to prepare a new edition of Dioscorides’s De materia medica, Angelo Vergecio annotated an Aldine Press version (French National Library, suppl. gr. 1098) using a manuscript procured by François Rabelais: this is the current ms. R.III.3 from El Escorial, a Greek Dioscorides from the eleventh century. A few years later, this manuscript found its way to Rome, among the Spanish Hellenists, with whom Rabelais may have been in contact during his last stay in that city.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-12943-1
EAN:9782406129431
ISSN: 2554-9111
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12943-1.p.0093
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 03-23-2022
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: Andrés Laguna, Angelo Vergecio, Juan Páez de Castro, Renaissance editions of Dioscorides, history of libraries in the Renaissance, cultural history of Rome in the sixteenth century, Greek philology, Greek editions in Paris in the sixteenth century