This medical handbook by Gariopontus, who flourished in the
mid-11th century in Salerno, systematically assembled in
head-to-foot order writings already long known in the Latin
speaking world (Galen’s Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo I-II with
a Liber tercius by a pseudo-Galen, the Aurelius and Esculapius
derived ultimately from the texts of Soranus of Ephesus, and an
extract from the Therapeutica by Alexander of Tralles) in seven
books. The work exercised a strong influence on the School of
Salerno. It survives in more than 65 manuscripts, and three print
issues were produced as early as the 16th century. The Bodmer
manuscript from the early 12th century, like many other versions of
this text, features numerous glosses.
