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 82v-131v
Record ID
vdc_100023377991.0x000004
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)
This anatomical administration
Translated from the Greek by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (Hunayn ibn Ishaq; d. 873). The Arabic title of this summarised version is
Fī al-tashrīḥ lil-muta‘allimīn
(On anatomy for learners). 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).
The text is divided into five books:
Book One: On the Anatomy of Bones
Book Two: On the Anatomy of Muscles (ff. 98v-116v);
Book Three: On the Anatomy of Nerves
Book Four: On the Anatomy of Veins (ff. 122r-129r);
Book Five: On the Anatomy of Arteries (ff. 129v-131r).
Beginnings (f. 82v, lines 2-9):
Collections of the Book of Galen
In anatomy for learners
The opinion of the Alexandrians, translated
Hunayn bin Ishaq, which contains five articles
Mosques of the first article
From him in the anatomy of the cat.
Some bones are big and some are small. And adult bones
Some of them are hollow and some are solid and have no hollow.
Ends (f. 131v, lines 4-7):
And the vein from which it becomes the fifth vertebra and the vein
Which rises to the gums and sweat, which rises to the armpit and sweats
Known as the races of hibernation and the races that come with the veil
The first branches that come are the liver, spleen, stomach, and intestines.
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 131v, lines 8-12):
The dependents were united
The fifth of the anatomy book
Galen's anatomy of veins
The hitters
The book was completed
There are collation notes after the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
. One states that the copy was collated with its exemplar. The second states that it was collated and corrected. The third states that it was collated with a manuscript that had been read before Amīn al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh Ibn Ṣā‘id Ibn al-Tilmīdh (d. ca 1164). This note reads:
I received this copy and read it to our late master, the president
Secretary of State Abi Al-Hassan Hibatullah bin Saed bin Al-Talib, may God prolong his life
This note appears to have been written by Ḥasan ibn Abd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṭabīb (Hasan bin Abdullah bin Al-Hussein Al-Tabib) whose inscription (f. 1r) is dated 14 Ṣafar 547/21 May 1152.
Erişim Koşulları
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Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition of Original Greek text (not Alexandrian Summary):
Kühn, Karl Gottlob, ed.,
Claudii Galeni opera omnia
. vol. II,2 (Leipzig: Nachdruck d. Ausg., 1821–1833; reprint Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1964–1965), pp. 215-731
Study:
Fichtner, Gerhard,
Corpus Galenicum. Bibliographie der galenischen und pseudgalenischen Werke
(Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012), Item 11, pp. 15-17
