Arabic MSS suppl. 87 (Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)

Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project collection

Summary of Contents: This manuscript contains commentary on the book of Aphorisms attributed to Hippocrates.

Title: Galen's commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms

Original manuscript in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

This is Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq's Translation of Galen's commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms. The first several folios are missing, so it begins in the middle of comm. on lemma i. 15. The beginning of each Book is as follows: Bk2: 13a; Bk3: 44b; Bk4: 72b; Bk5: 111a; Bk6: 144a; Bk7: 161a.

The copy is unnamed.

Language(s): Arabic

References

de Slane, 1883-95, p. 511.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 196 leaves

Dimensions (leaf):

Layout

One column with 19 lines

Hand(s)

The text is written in naskh.

Additions:

Marginalia: The copy has been collated with the exemplar as well as with another manuscript. The copyist has entered many corrections in the margins.

History

Origin: The copy was completed in 1163 H; (1691 AD) by Muhammad al-Ghafiri. 1691 AD.

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Funding of Cataloguing

European Research Council

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