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Recent publications by scholars of the Institute include:

Alain Touwaide, Greek Medical Manuscripts - Diels' Catalogues, 5 volumes, Berlin: De Gruyter [Medical Traditions Series, 2], 2021:

Tome 1Diels' Catalogue with Indices

Tome 2Corpus Hippocraticum

Tome 3Corpus Galenicum

Tome 4Ceteri Medici

Tome 5The Manuscripts and Their Texts

Alain Touwaide, “Agents and Agencies? The Many Facets of Translation in Byzantine Medicine”, in Faith Wallis and Robert Wisnovsky (eds), Medieval Textual Cultures: Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—Tension, Transmission, Transformation 6). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016, pp. 13-38.

Emanuela Appetiti, “Translatio Studiorum in the Activity of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions in the Activity of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions in the Activity of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions”, Medievalia, 2013, Vol. 16, pp. 13-21.

Alain Touwaide, Tractatus de herbis. Sloane MS 4016. Barcelona: M. Moleiro, 2013, 512p. Volume of study accompanying the facsimile reproduction of manuscript London, British Library, Sloane 4016. ISBN of the facsimile and volume of study: 978-84-96400-78-8.The work is published in English, French and Spanish.

Alain Touwaide, “Greek Medical Manuscripts—Toward a New Catalogue”, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 101 (2008), pp. 199-208.

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