14 July, 2017 - 14:00 Alicia McDermott
Hippocratic Medical Recipe Lost in a Famous Egyptian Monastery Finally Comes to Light
The library at St. Catherine's Monastery is considered one of the most important for ancient texts. New research examining a manuscript from the 6th century shows that it is not just the visible writing that holds value, but also the letters hidden underneath them. A copy of a medical recipe linked to the father of Western medicine, Hippocrates, is just one text that was waiting centuries to be uncovered.
The manuscript containing the recipe has been dated to the 5th or 6th century AD, so it is not an original created by the famed Greek physician Hippocrates; it is just a copy created after his death. Nonetheless, a researcher with the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (EMEL) told Asharq Al-Awsat the document also holds value for its age, stating that the text "will be enlisted among the oldest and the most important manuscripts in the world.”
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/hippocratic-medical-recipe-lost-famous-egyptian-monastery-finally-comes-021500
