[83] See the companion chapter on Greek Medicine.
[84] The works of Crateuas have recently been printed by M. Wellmann as an appendix to the text of Dioscorides, De re medica, 3 vols., Berlin, 1906-17. The source and fate of his plant drawings are discussed in the same author’s Krateuas, Berlin, 1897.
[85] The manuscript in question is Med. Graec. 1 at what was the Royal Library at Vienna. It is known as the Constantinopolitanus. After the war it was taken to St. Mark’s at Venice, but either has been or is about to be restored to Vienna. A facsimile of this grand manuscript was published by Sijthoff, Leyden, 1906.
[86] The lady in question was Juliana Anicia, daughter of Anicius Olybrius, Emperor of the West in 472, and his wife Placidia, daughter of Valentinian III. Juliana was betrothed in 479 by the Eastern Emperor Zeno to Theodoric the Ostrogoth, but was married, probably in 487 when the manuscript was presented to her, to Areobindus, a high military officer under the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius.
[87] The importance of this manuscript as well as the position of Dioscorides as medical botanist is discussed by Charles Singer in an article ‘Greek Biology and the Rise of Modern Biology’; Studies in the History and Method of Science, vol. ii, Oxford, 1921.
[88] This manuscript is at the University Library at Leyden, where it is numbered Voss Q 9.
[89] A good instance of Galen’s teleological point of view is afforded by his classical description of the hand in the περὶ χρείας τῶν ἐν ἀνθρώπου σώματι μορίων, On the uses of the parts of the body of man, i. 1. This passage is available in English in a tract by Thomas Bellott, London, 1840.
[90] C. H. Haskins, ‘The reception of Arabic science in England,’ English Historical Review, London, 1915, p. 56.
[91] The latest and best work on the Aristotelian translations of Scott is an inaugural dissertation by A. H. Querfeld, Michael Scottus und seine Schrift, De secretis naturae, Leipzig, 1919.
[92] J. G. Schneider, Aristotelis de animalibus historiae, Leipzig, 1811, p. cxxvi. L. Dittmeyer, Guilelmi Moerbekensis translatio commentationis Aristotelicae de generatione animalium, Dillingen, 1915. L. Dittmeyer, De animalibus historia, Leipzig, 1907.