MS Ar. 1037 (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.

Author: ʿAli bin Ṭāhir al-Ṭabīb al-Sinǧārī علي بن طاهر الطبيب السنجاري

Title: Kitāb Taysīr al-Wuṣūl ʾilā tafsīr al-fuṣūl li-ʾAbuqrāṭ

Title: Making It Easy to Arrive at an Explanation of Hippocrates’ ‘Aphorisms’

Title: كتاب تيسير الوصول إلى تفسير الفصول لأبقراط

Original manuscript in Manuscrits de la Fondation Georges et Mathilde Salem.

This is a lemmatically arranged commentary. The introduction begins on f. 1b (as Pormann and Joosse point out, it has a longer version of the introduction); the beginning of each Book is as follows: Bk 1: 2b; Bk 2: 15a; Bk 3: 34b; Bk 4: 50a; Bk 5: 78b; Bk 6: 101a; Bk 7: 116b.

Language(s): Arabic

References

Río Sánchez, Francisco del, , Catalogue des manuscrits de la fondation Georges et Mathilde Salem (Alep, Syrie) 2008, volume pagesp. 131, no. 235.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 133 leaves (ff. 1a-133b)

Dimensions (leaf):

Layout

One column with 15 lines per page. The beginning of each lemma and the beginning of each commentary are in rubric.

Hand(s)

The text is written in naskh.

The first hand copied 1a-3a, 8a-10b

The second hand entered many corrections in the margin (frequently with the mark صح).

Additions:

Marginalia: The second hand entered many corrections in the margin (frequently with the mark صح).

History

Origin: The copy is unnamed and undated. Sbath estimates the date of copying around the 14th century CE. The title and author are given on the front page as كتاب تيسير الوصول إلى تفسير الفصول لأبقراط by علي بن طاهر الطبيب السنجاري.

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European Research Council

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