MS. Huntington 359 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Ibn Abī Uṣaibiʻah I. 453-4, who mentions this work

It was transcribed in the month of Ṣafar 924 (12 Feb.–12 Mar. 1518) by an unnamed copyist. The copy is incomplete. The first maqālah begins on folio 1b and the second on folio 6a, but the second maqālah ends abruptly on folio 10b16 at the fortieth aphorism, with no commentary. The text then continues in the middle of the third maqālah with the commentary on the twenty-second aphorism. The fourth maqālah begins on folio 12b, the fifth on 15b, the sixth on 21a, and the seventh on 26a. The seventh maqālah ends with the aphorism before the last one in that chapter − that is, it ends with the fifty-eighth aphorism of the last maqālah in the edition by John Tytler, The Aphorisms of Hippocrates, Translated into Arabic by Honain ben Ishak, physician to the Caliph Motawukkul (Calcutta: Education Press, 1832).

Dimensions 21.8 × 15.4 (text area 16.3 × 9.8) cm; 19 lines per page. The title and the name of the commentator, Galen, and the editor, al-Nīlī, occur at the beginning of the treatise and on the title page (folio 1a) which reads: هذا من الطب فى تلخيص تفسير جالينوس لفصول ابقراط شرح فصول ابقراط للشيخ الفاضل ابى سهل سعيد بن عبد العزيز النيلي رحمة الله عليه برحمته الواسعة The text area has been frame-ruled. The text is written in a medium-small, fairly casual and inelegant, but consistent, Naskh, not fully dotted and employing some ligatures; it is written in black ink with headings in black and black overlinings. There are catchwords. On the lower half of folio 23b the handwriting changes and then returns to the original hand on folio 24a; there is no catchword on folio 23b. It is soiled with thumbing on folios 2a−3a, 7a, and 11a.

The text has been collated (collation notes folio 11a, 11b, 15b, 16b, 21a, 21b, 22b, 24a, 24b, 25b, 26a, 27b, 28a, 30a). There are marginal corrections and marginal indications of chapters; on folio 4b there are pious phrases in the margin written by a later hand.

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The copy was completed toward the end of Shaʿbān 924 (Aug.–Sept. 1518). The unnamed copyist is the same person who copied the first item in the volume (see entry for Talkhīṣ tafsīr Jālīnūs li-Fuṣūl Ibqurāṭ ).

It is a nearly complete copy, with one small lacuna on folio 115a. The first maqālah begins on folio 32a, the second on 44b, the third on 56b, the fourth on 66a, the fifth on 86a, the sixth on 102b, and the seventh on 120a.

Dimensions 21.8 × 15.4 (text area 15.8 × 9.6) cm; 19 lines per page. The title is not given. The author is named at the beginning of the treatise.

The text area is frame-ruled. The text is written in a medium-small, fairly casual and inelegant, but consistent, Naskh, without full diacritical dots and employing some ligatures. It is written in dense-black ink; some black overlining was added later. There are catchwords.

The text has been collated, with collation notes throughout. Space has been left blank on folio 115a. There are also marginal corrections. Folio 31a has twenty lines in a large later hand concerned with the meaning of terms used in describing temperaments and humours. On folio 130b there is a later therapeutic note on phrenitis or meningitis (sirsām) and forgetfulness (nisyān).

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