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 48r-72v
Record ID
vdc_100023514115.0x000003
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)
He pulsibus ad tirones
(Περὶ τῶν σφυγμῶν τοῖς εἰσαγομένοις; In the Little Pulse to Tawthorn) translated from the Greek by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (Hunayn ibn Ishaq; d. 873).
Begins (f. 48v, lines 1-2):
...the variegated veins, some of which you perceive its movement by sense, and some of which you do not perceive
Its movement is sensed, and the movement is not sensed by sense, but sense is missed...
Ends (f. 72v, lines 1-3):
If the causes of stomach fluctuation increase and the pulse becomes irregular
The one who has a single pulse is the one who, when the beating sweat is released, feels it
Who feels that sweat is like crumbled urine...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 72v, lines 3-4):
...The Alexandrian mosques were compiled from a book
Galen for small pulse...
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 61, pp. 44-45
Edition of Arabic version (not Alexandrian summary):
Jālīnūs,
Kitāb Jālīnūs ilá Ṭutharan fī al-nabḍ al-ṣaghīr lil-mutaʿallimīn
, edited by Muḥammad Salīm Sālim (Cairo: Maṭbaʿat Dār al-Kutub, 1985)
Edition of Original full Greek text (not Alexandrian summary):
Kühn, Karl Gottlob, ed.,
Claudii Galeni opera omnia
. vol. VIII,2 (Leipzig: Nachdruck d. Ausg., 1821–1833; reprint Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1964–1965), pp. 453-492