Author
Galen,d. c. 216Galen
Author Original
جالينوس
Subject
Medicine
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
30
Physical Dimensions
30 ff. 100 ff.
Library
FIHRIST Library
Library Asset ID
MS. Huntington 359
Record ID
1002
Library Location
Bodleian Library, Oxford University
Notes
The volume contains 131 leaves. Folio 30b has an eleven-line Turkish note, carefully written, on the treatment of haemorrhoids (بواسير). Folio 31a has twenty lines of Arabic in a large later hand concerned with the meaning of terms used in describing temperaments and humours. Folio 131a has advice (من وصايا) on food (طعام) taken from Ibn Sīnā, written in a large and later hand. Folio 131b has four recipes for theriacs (in different hands), one of them specified as ترياق برشعيثا (the tiryāq of Barashʿīthā) and another as ترياق فاروق لابن قيسون (the tiryāq fārūq of Ibn Qaysūn). Surrounding the title on folio 1a there are later notes presenting three magical procedures for gaining protection and well-being, one of them citing Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd (King Solomon son of David). On the front pastedown, in addition to the UAM entry number, there are Turkish recipes, medical notes and pious phrases; on the back pastedown there are two recipes, one for skin conditions and leprosy (judhām). On the paper lining of the envelope flap there are four invocations (yā kāfī, etc.) that are said, on the authority of al-Būnī (d. c. 622/1225), to be useful for procuring a livelihood and wealth. A Latin note on folio 1b states that the volume contains commentaries on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates.
Sample Text
In the name of God... Sheikh Abu Sahl Saeed bin Abdul Aziz Al-Nili, may God have mercy on him, said that the one who invited me [not dictionary] to summarize Galen’s interpretation of the chapters of Hippocrates, despite the lack of breadth and acknowledgment in coming up with an example of systems in beauty and explanation, is what I saw [= I saw] of the laziness of my companions in looking [not dictionary] in long books.
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