On 1 Jan 2023, a Women’s Legacy Project record detailed Metrodora’s treatise in Codex Plut. 75.3, noting 63 chapters on women’s diseases.
On 1 January 2023, the related literature record in the Women’s Legacy Project for Metrodora’s treatise On the Diseases of Women was catalogued or updated, providing a detailed description of the work’s manuscript context and structure.
The record specifies that the text attributed to Metrodora appears in Codex Plut. 75.3 of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, a 12th‑century Byzantine manuscript, and that her portion consists of 63 chapters on medical subjects, primarily focused on women’s diseases. It notes the treatise’s organization and its emphasis on gynecological and obstetric problems, thereby giving modern readers a clearer sense of its scope and contents.
This cataloguing is significant because it transforms a specialist piece of codicological information into an accessible resource within a women’s‑history framework. By documenting the manuscript details and chapter count, the record supports further research on how Metrodora’s text fits within ancient medical literature, and on the transmission of women‑authored technical works through medieval copyists. It also underscores the rarity of such material by explicitly identifying the Florence codex as one of the very few sources for an ancient female physician’s writings.