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 72v-157r
Record ID
vdc_100023514115.0x000004
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)
Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo libri II
(Τῶν πρὸς Γλαύκωνα θεραπευτικῶν βιβλία β'; To Gloqan in the Healing of Diseases) translated from the Greek by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (Hunayn ibn Ishaq; d. 873).
Contents:
Chapter One (Article One; ff. 72v-129v);
Chapter Two (Article Two; ff. 129v-157r);
Beginnings (f. 72v, lines 8-10):
...The name of nature runs in the words of Hippocrates
It has four aspects, one of which is the mood of the body, the second is the form of the body, and the third is strength
The director of the body and the fourth is the movement of the soul...
Ends (f. 157r, lines 1-3):
... The presentation in treatment (?) is two things, one is analysis and the other
Excreting that water with iron treatment, burning medicine, and putrid medicine, as well as both
One type of muharraq is stronger and thicker, while the molded is less strong and gentle
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 157r, lines 4-5):
The second article from the book of Galen to Igluqan has been compiled and is
The whole book...
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 70 , pp. 50-51
Edition of Arabic version (not Alexandrian summary):
Jālīnūs,
Kit
āb Jālīnūs ilá Ghulūqun fī al-ta’ttī li-shifā’ al-amrāḍ
, edited by Muḥammad Salīm Sālim (Cairo: Maṭbaʿat Dār al-Kutub, 1982)
Edition of Original Greek text (not Alexandrian summary):
Kühn, Karl Gottlob, ed.,
Claudii Galeni opera omnia
. vol. XI,1 (Leipzig: Nachdruck d. Ausg., 1821–1833; reprint Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1964–1965), pp. 1-146
