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 52r-82r
Record ID
vdc_100023377991.0x000003
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 facultatibus naturalibus libri III
(Περὶ δυνάμεων φυσικῶν βιβλία γ'; On Natural Forces)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. 52r, lines 2-8):
Collections of the Book of Galen
In natural forces on
The opinion of the Alexandrians.
Translated by Hunayn bin Ishaq.
The beginning of the first article of Jami'
Galen said that there are three types of strength. Some of them are psychological. Including animal.
Including natural. ...
Ends (f. 82r, lines 11-12):
The third is that the veins are wide and their openings are wide.
The fourth is that the attractive force be strong, God willing.
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 82r, lines 13-17):
The mosques were compiled from a book
Galen on natural forces
It is a third of the articles on
The opinion of the Alexandrians, translated
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.
The texts are followed (f. 82r) by a brief medical definition of 'cough' (cough).
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Seçilmiş kaynakça
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
Study:
Fichtner, Gerhard,
Corpus Galenicum. Bibliographie der galenischen und pseudgalenischen Werke
(Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012), Item 10, p. 15
