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 19v-51r
Record ID
vdc_100023377991.0x000002
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 temperamentis libri III
(Περὶ κράσεων βιβλία γ'; in the mood) translated from the Greek by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (Hunayn ibn Ishaq; 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).
Beginnings (f. 19v, lines 2-5):
The entire book of Galen on mood according to opinion
The Alexandrians, translated by Hunayn bin Ishaq
The starter of the first pans of it
There are two types of temperament, and that is because it is moderate. It is not moderate
Ends (f. 51r, lines 10-12):
In this one body, whether he heats it or cools it
The oil of roses is intended to cool the ailments that are accompanied by heat
And warming the ills that have the advantage of cooling.
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 51r, lines 13-16):
The mosques were compiled from a book
Galen's temperament is a third
Articles on the opinion of 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
Unrestricted
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition of Original Greek text (not Alexandrian Summary):
Kühn, Karl Gottlob, ed.,
Claudii Galeni opera omnia
. vol. I,9 (Leipzig: Nachdruck d. Ausg., 1821–1833; reprint Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1964–1965), pp. 509-694
Studies:
Fichtner, Gerhard,
Corpus Galenicum. Bibliographie der galenischen und pseudgalenischen Werke
(Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012), Item 9, pp. 14-15
