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The Dynameron of the Nikolaos Myrepsos is critically edited for the first time after eight centuries. It is a text from the Byzantine and early Modern medical and pharmaceutical history and is in a continuation of a long tradition of manuals, as they have been around since antiquity. The text contains as a consequence of its history, words from all phases of the Greek language, as well as foreign and loanwords from Persian, Arabic and Latin. The Dynameron was already known from the Latin translation and has contributed with its recipes to the creation of the first occidental pharmacy manuals, the well-known Pharmacopoeia.

There was a new edition of Ilias Valiakos: Das Dynameron des Nikolaos Myrepsos. Critical Edition 2020

Nikolaos Myrepsos’ Dynameron is critically edited after eight centuries. This one is the second edition. It is a text of the late Byzantine period, following the long tradition of similar medicinal and pharmaceutical manuals since antiquity. As a consequence, one can easily recognize earlier types of Greek words, but also several loans from the Latin, Arabic and Persian language. Dynameron was known in central Europe from an early translation into Latin, which had had a great influence on the edition of several Pharmacopeias, as well as on academic textbooks of therapeutics.

New edition of Ilias Valiakos: Das Dynameron des Nikolaos Myrepsos. Erstedition of 2019