Una epistula acéfala restituida a su lugar: el verdadero prefacio (cristiano) de los Teraupetica

Abstract

ABSTRACT:In his doctoral thesis, Wiedemann gave the editio princeps of a short medical writing entitled Epistula quod per omnes curas adhibenda sunt dei medicamenta. The article draws attention to the acephalous condition of this Epistula and relates it to the incomplete preface of a late antique medical recipe book called Teraupetica. This preface, in its incomplete form, and the so-called Epistula quod per omnes curas are two membra disiecta of the same text that would have been separated by accident. The unified text constituted the original preface of the Teraupetica, which is now presented for the first time in a complete critical edition, along with its translation into Spanish.