Author
Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Publication Date
1050-1152 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 9202, ff 1v-19r
Record ID
vdc_100023377991.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1050-1152 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Alexandrian Summary (Mosques of the Alexandrians) of Galen's (Galen; d. ca 216)
De elementis secundum Hippocratem libri II
(Πε these d. 873). This copy was collated with a copy owned by Ibn al-Tilmīdh (Ibn al-Talib; d. ca 1164), chief physician of the ‘Aḍudī Hospital in Baghdad and author of the
Baghdad Formulary
(Aqrabādīn is the city of peace; see British Library, MS Or 8293).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-6):
Collections of the Book of Galen
In the case of opinion
Hippocrates to the Alexandrians
Translated by Hunayn bin Ishaq
There are three types of elements, some of which are distant elements that pervade composite bodies
Ends (f. 19r, lines 6-9):
When these humors are cleansed, they attract what is in the veins
Because of its intense attraction and violence, what is the mixture that is a laxative?
This medicine is specific to his diarrhea and is not specific to this medication
With his diarrhea
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 19r, lines 10-13):
The book of Galen was compiled
In the weather, according to my opinion
Hippocrates to the Alexandrians
Translated by Hunayn bin Ishaq
There are two collation notes after the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
Stating that the copy was collated with its exemplar and with another manuscript.
Erişim Koşulları
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Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition (of Galenic treatise, not Alexandrian Summary):
Sālim, Muḥammad Salīm,
Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-usṭuqussāt ‘alá ra’y Abuqrāṭ naql Abī Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī al-mutaṭabbib
(Cairo: al-Hayʼah al-Miṣrīyah al-ʿĀmmah lil-Kitāb, 1986)
Edition of Original Greek text (not Alexandrian Summary):
Kühn, Karl Gottlob, ed.,
Claudii Galeni opera omnia
. vol. 1,8 (Leipzig: Nachdruck d. Ausg., 1821–1833; reprint Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1964–1965), pp. 413-508
Studies:
Fichtner, Gerhard,
Corpus Galenicum. Bibliographie der galenischen und pseudgalenischen Werke
(Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012), Item 8, pp. 13-14
Wilkie, James Sterling and Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd, 'The Arabic Version of Galen's
De elementis Secundum Hippocratem
' in
Journal of Hellenic Studies
, 102 (1982), 232-233
