Introduction

This part collects all the textual material about therapeutics coming from Byzantine hospitals that are currently known. The texts have been established in three different ways corresponding to three different types of available documentation:

(1) fragments attested by only one manuscript have been transcribed and reproduced without editorial intervention beyond explicating abbreviations and correcting evident mistakes (mainly orthographic). This is the case with the fragments referring to remedies coming from hospitals or associated with a physician in a hospital. These fragments can be found in the manuscripts Vaticanus graecus 299 and Parisinus graecus 2194. They can be read in the sections nos. 3 and 4 below.