John Caius (1510-75) enjoyed a European reputation as a Galenist physician. This study, based on his marginalia preserved in Eton and Cambridge, describes Caius' immense efforts to see and collate medical manuscripts in Italy and England over almost two decades. His reports are important for a modern editor of Galen, since many of these 'codices' are, apparently, now lost, and some were of high quality. Caius' notes also shed light on the growth of medical humanism, on the accessibility of Greek books and manuscripts in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and on the methods of Renaissance editors of Greek technical prose texts. Caius' evidence also prompts a reassessment of the 1525 Aldine Galen, and of the activities of two of its editors, John Clement and Edward Wotton. This study is of importance to students of both ancient medicine and the transmission of Greek learning in the West.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter I: John Caius
• Chapter II: The Study of Galen Before the Aldine Edition
• Chapter III: From the Aldine to the Basle Galen
• Chapter IV: Seek and Ye Shall Find: John Caius’ Quest for Galenic Manuscripts
• Chapter V: The Rewards of Virtue: The Textual Value of Caius’ Collations
• Chapter VI: Habent Sua Fata Libelli
• Chapter VII: Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Works of Galen Edited or Translated by Caius
• Appendix 2: Manuscripts of Galen Seen by Caius
• Appendix 3: Works of Galen for Which Caius Provides New Textual Evidence
• Back Cover