البرديات الطبية في مصر الفرعونية : دراسة في علم الكوديكولوجيا

الملخص EN

There are many sources that give a clear idea of ancient Egyptian medicine, the most important of them : human remains and mummies, as well as inscriptions on the walls of temples and royal and non-royal tombs; but the main and most important source remains "medical papyri".

these papyri describe the greatness of the pharaohs in medicine and their superiority in diagnosing diseases and prescribing treatment, as these papyri varied and exceeded including mention types of diseases that the ancient Egyptian is exposed to, how to treat them and ways to prevent them ...

etc., and these papyri have distinct characteristics and features represented in its material and bibliographic features, which made it necessary to study these papyri from the perspective of codicology, which is the science that studies everything related to the physical and bibliographic features of manuscripts or papyri in terms of : defining the addresses of papyri, its subjects, and also dealing with numbering and underlining in papyri, and dealing with the formal aspects in terms of colors and inks used, as well as dealing with drawings and illustrations in those papyri, and dealing with margins and underlining, all of which are matters and elements that are concerned with codicology, and this study seeks to clarify and address them.

the study reached several results, including : the Edwin smith papyrus ranks second after the Ebers papyrus in terms of length.

it was written in hieratic script and contains 17 pages.

most of the medical papyri were found in good condition in terms of the shape and outward appearance of the papyrus.

except for the "Carlsberg" papyrus, which was found in poor condition as a collection of torn scraps, the "Ebers" papyrus also contained 108 columns, while the "Hurst" papyrus contained 18 columns.

so, it is the largest papyrus in terms of the number of columns, and each column consists of 20-22 lines in the papyrus.