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Sudhoffs Arch. 2009;93(2):171-83.
At the beginning of the 20th century, two known medical historians, Karl Sudhoff and Henry Ernst Sigerist, were among the first persons, who took up thorough investigations of medical manuscripts in Leipzig. Above all, it was Mr. Sudhoff, who developed his own procedure, in order to exploit the unknown stocks. Apart from the only means available to him, the so-called Leyser-papers, written by the Leipzig librarian Hermann Leyser, at least once Sudhoff made a complete check-up of all manuscripts over the period of 22 years. On 315 sheets he took down various more or less extensive notes regarding these Codices, which are kept today as manuscript collection (Ms 01269) in the library of the university of Leipzig. Many publications were written on the basis of these readings. Sigerist was only looking through a small number of Leipzig manuscripts, as could be seen from his remarks written onto the users' cards. However, he could rely on Sudhoff's notes and look for specific manuscripts that he was interested in and review them. This was a first and very important step for the investigation of Leipzig medical manuscripts.
在20世纪初，两位著名的医学历史学家卡尔·苏德霍夫和亨利·恩斯特·西格里斯，是最早在莱比锡对医学手稿进行深入研究的人之一。最重要的是，苏德霍夫先生开发了自己的方法，以挖掘那些未知的藏书。除了他所能利用的唯一资料，即莱比锡图书馆馆员赫尔曼·莱泽所写的所谓莱泽文件外，苏德霍夫至少有一次在22年的时间里对所有手稿进行了全面检查。他在315张纸上记录了关于这些手稿的各种或多或少详尽的笔记，这些手稿如今作为手稿集（Ms 01269）保存在莱比锡大学图书馆。许多出版物都是基于这些阅读内容撰写的。从西格里斯写在借阅卡上的评论可以看出，他只浏览了少量的莱比锡手稿。然而，他可以依靠苏德霍夫的笔记，寻找他感兴趣的特定手稿并进行查阅。这是对莱比锡医学手稿进行研究的第一步，也是非常重要的一步。
