Resources

  1. Glossaries of medical terms
  2. Glossaries of book/manuscript terms
  3. Editions of Greek medical texts
  4. History of ancient science and medicine

All resources listed below are open access.

Glossaries of medical terms

Medical Dictionary of Health Terms
https://www.health.harvard.edu/a-through-c#A-terms

MegaLexica: searchable glossary of medical terms
https://www.online-medical-dictionary.org/glossary

Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical

Biology dictionary online
https://www.biologyonline.com/dictionary

Glossaries of books/manuscripts terms

Lexicon - Terms used in manuscripts studies (Hill Museum and Manuscripts Studies)
https://hmmlschool.org/lexicon/

Basic Terms for Understanding Medieval Manuscripts
https://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/mdst300/Readings/Basic_Terms_for_Medieval_Codicology.pdf

Folgerpedia, from the Folger Library in Washington, DC
https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Glossary_of_manuscript_terms

Glossary of manuscript terminology from the Arnamagnæan Institute (University of Copenhagen)
Focused on philology, manuscript studies and language studies
https://manuscript.ku.dk/about/glossary/

Glossary of terms for pre-industrial book history
Compiled in 2009
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=lib_pubs

Editions of Greek medical texts

Critical editions of Greek medical texts
Corpus Medicorum Graecorum
https://cmg.bbaw.de/epubl/online/editionen.html

History of ancient science and medicine

Paul T. Keyser and Georgia L. Irby-Massie (eds.), Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists
The Greek Tradition and Its Many Heirs. London and New York: Routledge, 2008.
https://dn721205.ca.archive.org/0/items/TheEncyclopediaOfAncientNaturalScientists/The%20Encyclopedia%20of%20Ancient%20Natural%20Scientists.pdf

General encyclopedia on Classical Antiquity
Brill's New Pauly. Encyclopaedia of the ancient world. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 15 volumes, 2002-2010.
An online edition is available. Snippet view is free, but full view requires an institutional affiliation.
https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/npoe