MS Arabe 2841 (Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)

Display:

Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project collection

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

Author: Naǧm al-Dīn ʾAḥmad ibn al-Minfāḫ نجم الدين أحمد بن المنفاخ

Title: Risāla fī radd al-iʿtirāḍāt ʿalā kitāb al-Fuṣūl

Title: رسالة في رد الاعتراضات على كتاب الفصول

Title: Epistle Refuting the Objections against the Book of Aphorisms

Original manuscript in BNF.

This is a lemmatically arranged commentary (note that he only commented on a part of the lemmata). The introduction begins on f. 1b; the beginning of each Book is as follows: Bk1: 2a; Bk 2: 20a; Bk 3: 29b; (Bk 4 is lacking); Bk 5: 37b; Bk 6: 38b; Bk 7: 39b.

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 40 leaves (ff. 1b–40a)

Dimensions (leaf):

Layout

One column with 19 lines per page.

Hand(s)

The text is written in naskh.

Additions:

Marginalia: The copy has been collated with the exemplar. The copyist has entered many corrections in the margin (frequently with mark صح).

History

Origin: produced in thirteenth century. CE

Availability

Please check with the holding institution for access details.

Funding of Cataloguing

European Research Council

Subjects

TO TOP