Galen as (Mis)informant about the Views of his Predecessors: A Discussion of R. J. Hankinson (ed.), Galen on Antecedent Causes (Cambridge, 1998)

The De causis procatarctis (CP) is one of a number of Galen's works that survive only in medieval Latin translations by Niccolò da Reggio. A version edited and equipped with a Rückübersetzung by Kurt Bardong appeared in the Corpus medicorum graecorum in 1937 (Supp. vol. II). For his edition R. J. Hankinson (RJH) has examined some of the manuscripts afresh, including one that Bardong seems not to have known about (52 ff.). He provides an English translation instead of his predecessor's Rückübersetzung, and has supplied his edition with an extensive introduction, a detailed commentary, indices, bibliographies and a comparative glossary of Greek and Latin terms, which will help make the work available to a broader audience while enhancing its usefulness to all its readers.