The
medical recipe uncovered is one of the renowned Greek physician Hippocrates.
Written By/ Nevine El-Aref.
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The Newly Discovered Manuscript
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The
ceremony was attended by Greek Minister of Digital Policy, Telecommunications
and Media Nikos Pappas, the Archbishop of Saint Catherine's Monastery, Egyptian
Cultural Minister Helmy El-Namnam,
Egyptian Minister of Communication and Information Technology Yasser
El-Kadi, Egyptian Minister of Tourism Yehia Rashid, and South Sinai Governor
Major General Khalid Fouda.
Mohammed
Abdel-Latif, assistant minister of antiquities for archaeological sites,
explained that the discovered manuscript is one of those known as
"Palmesit" manuscripts, dating to the 6th century AD. The manuscript
is written on leather and bears parts of a medical recipe of the renowned Greek
physician Hippocrates.
The
manuscript has also three other medical recipes written by an anonymous scribe,
one of which contains drawings of medicinal herbs of the Greek recipe.
The
second layer of writing found on the manuscript is a text of the Bible known as
the "Sinaitic manuscript," which spread during the Middle Ages.
Ahmed
Al-Nimer, supervisor of Coptic archeology documentation at the ministry, told
Ahram Online that "Palmesit manuscripts" are a very well-known type
of manuscript written on leather and formed of two layers. The first one, he
explained, was previously erased in order to be re-written on the leather
again. "This was done due to the high cost of leather at that time,"
Al-Nimr pointed out.
The
monastery of Sainte Catherine's contains many "Palmesit" manuscripts
in addition to a library containing 6,000 manuscripts, among them 600
manuscripts written in Arabic, Greek, Ethiopian, Coptic, Armenian and Syriac.
They are mainly historical, geographical and philosophical manuscripts and the
oldest dates to the 4th century AD.
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