UKNOWN HIPPOCRATES RECIPES ACCIDENTALLY FOUND IN ST. CATHERINE’S MONASTERY ON MT. SINAI
Sinai Peninsula, July 7, 2017
A 6th century AD manuscript containing recipes of the “father of medicine,” the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, was recently discovered in the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mt. Sinai, reports RIA-Novosti, with reference to the Egyptian newspaper Ahram.
The manuscript was discovered during restoration work in the library. The discovery was publicly announced by the Egyptian Minister of Antiquites Khaled El-Anani. The manuscript also contains three other medical recipes written by an anonymous scribe. One of them is illustrated with drawings of medicinal herbs.
The discovered artifact belongs to the body of manuscripts known as “palmezit,” created out of skin, with two layers. The inscriptions on the first layer were removed before the recipes were recorded on them. “This was done because of the very high cost of skins in those days,” explains Akhmed Al-Nimer, the head of the department for Coptic archaeological documentation of the Ministry of Antiquities.
The second layer of the palmezit manuscripts contains the Biblical text, known as Codex Sinaiticus. This was very common in the Middle Ages.
There are more than 6,000 manuscripts in the St. Catherine’s library. The most ancient of them dates to the 4th century AD. About 600 of the manuscripts are written in Arabic, Greek, Ethiopic, Coptic, Armenian, and Syrian, mainly concerning history, geography, and philosophy.
7/7/2017
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UKNOWN HIPPOCRATES RECIPES ACCIDENTALLY FOUND
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You do have to wonder how much more information exists in these monastery archives. These places were a great source of written knowledge and a lot of today’s understanding of ancient history is down to this sort of discovery or the hidden caches such as the dead sea scrolls and others discovered in Egypt. Just imagine what would have been contained in the great library of Alexandria had it not been destroyed by fire.
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