The Saxon humanist Janus Cornarius (ca. 1500–1558) devoted himself to edit, translate, and comment the extant works of Galen of Pergamon (129–ca. 216). In this study I deal with the Latin translation and commentary of Galen’s work On the composition of drugs by site, edited by Cornarius (Basel, 1537). Namely, by investigating some passages of Galen’s treatise, my effort is to throw light on Cornarius’ working method, defining which literary and manuscript sources he used to improve and interpret thoroughly Galen’s text.

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• Guardasole, A., (2025), "Janus Cornarius éditeur et commentateur du traité de Galien Sur la composition des médicaments selon les lieux", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Guardasole, Alessia. "Janus Cornarius éditeur et commentateur du traité de Galien Sur la composition des médicaments selon les lieux." Renaissance and Reformation 33 (3): 2011. 85-97. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v33i3.15353. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.