Langbeschreibung
Nikolaos Myrepsos¿ Dynameron, is critically edited after eight centuries. Thisone is the second edition. It is a text of the late Byzantine period, following thelong tradition of similar medicinal and pharmaceutical manuals since antiquity. As aconsequence, one can easily recognize earlier types of Greek words, but also severalloans from the Latin, Arabic and Persian language. Dynameron was known in centralEurope from an early translation into Latin, which had had a great influence on theedition of several Pharmacopeias, as well as on academic textbooks oftherapeutics.