title: [The autograph letter of K. G. Kühn about the edition of the Medicorum Graecorum opera quae exstand series].
abstract: In this article, an autograph letter by K. G. Kühn (1754-1840) is being published and annotated. It was found glued on the interior surface of the back cover of No 25 manuscript kept at the University of Thessaloniki (Library of Department of Classics). With this letter Kühn announced the publication of the series Medicorum Graecorum opera quae existant to F. H. G. Donkermann ("Privatlehrer in Leiden") asking for his assistance to trace a Galenic manuscript at the Library of Leiden (most probably the pseudo-galenic treatise [symbol: see text]. Furthermore, in the same letter Kühn mentioned the publication of the Galenic treatise [symbol: see text], as an example (specimen) of the series that was going to follow.
authors.affiliation: Universität Thessaloniki Philosophische Fakultät Institut für Klassische Philologie, GR-541 24 Thessaloniki.
authors.forename: Aimilios D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Mavroudis
mesh_terms: D015709:Correspondence as Topic / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D006115:Greece; D006663:Historiography; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history*