Author
Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Publication Date
17th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 23407, ff 208v-239v
Record ID
vdc_100023514115.0x000007
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
17th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Alexandrian Summary (Mosques of the Alexandrians) of Galen's (Galen; d. ca 216)
De facultatibus naturalibus
(Περὶ δυνάμεων φυσικῶν βιβλία γ'; On Natural Forces) translated from the Greek by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (Hunayn ibn Ishaq; d. 873).
Contents:
Book One (first article; ff. 208v-219v);
Book Two (Article Two; ff. 219v-227v);
Book Three (Article Three; ff. 227v-239v).
Beginnings (f. 208v, lines 4-6):
There are three types of natural forces, including psychological and natural
Among them are animal, and the psychic powers are of three types, including sensory
Some are kinetic, some are political...
Ends (f. 239v, lines 2-6):
...The drink runs out quickly
If the yūl is designated with four characteristics, one of which is to be the manner of its problem
Agree, the other is that the wet essence is a nice essence, and the third
That the veins be wide and their openings wide, and the fourth is that it be
The attractive force is strong...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 239v, lines 6-7):
...The Alexandrians compiled the book of Galen
In Natural Forces, translated by Hunayn bin Ishaq...
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Cureton, William,
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens
(London: The British Museum 1846-71), Item 1356, p. 629-30
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Fichtner, Gerhard,
Corpus Galenicum. Bibliographie der galenischen und pseudgalenischen Werke
(Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012), Item 10, p. 15
Edition of Original Greek text (not Alexandrian summary):
Kühn, Karl Gottlob, ed.,
Claudii Galeni opera omnia
. vol. II,1 (Leipzig: Nachdruck d. Ausg., 1821–1833; reprint Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1964–1965), pp. 1-214
