ABSTRACT
The oft-quoted paper by the French physician and historian of Byzantine medicine Edouard Jeanselme (1858-1935) – “Sur un aide-mémoire de thérapeutique byzantin . . .” – was my gateway to the study of Byzantine manuscripts of xenôn (that is, hospital) medical texts. 1 His paper, however, is confi ned to a commentary on, and translation of, the text designated here and subsequently as the Therapeutikai in three manuscripts available to him. The value of xenôn texts to the study of the Byzantine xenônes was asserted in 1985 by the Byzantinist Timothy Miller in his monograph The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire .
