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A new Greek fragment of John of Alexandria’s Commentary in Hippocr. Epid. vi in the ms Vat. gr. 300 · The article deals with the identification of a new Greek fragment of John of Alexandria’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ Epidemics vi, written on the margins of the text of Theophilus’s De urinis in the ms Vat. gr. 300. The new fragment is an exception among the 43 fragments that are known to us, since it is unrelated to Ibn al-Jazzâr’s Ephodia. The practice of using John’s Commentary as an exegetical tool of a text different from the Ephodia suggests that other fragments of his commentary could be found in the texts copied or used in the same cultural environment; the identification changes the perspective in the study of Vat. gr. 300 and throws a new light on the cultural milieu of the Strait of Messina between the eleventh and twelfth centuries.