MS Veliyeddin Efendi 2508 (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: Commentary on Hippocratic Aphorisms

Original manuscript in Veliyeddin Efendi.

This is a lemmatically arranged commentary. The introduction begins on f. 1b; the beginning of each Book is as follows: Bk1: 2a; Bk 2: 13b; Bk 3: 25b; Bk 4: 34a; Bk 5: 51a; Bk 6: 65b; Bk 7: 81b..

Language(s): Arabic

References

Ṣeṣen, Ramazan, 1984-88, pagesp. 8

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 91 leaves (ff. 1a-91b)

Dimensions (leaf):

Layout

One column with 25 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.

Additions:

The copy has been collated with the exemplar as well as with another manuscript. The copyist has entered many corrections in the margins (frequently marked with صح).

History

Origin: This copy was completed in 460 AH, 1067 CE by Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Sayyid, who recorded on f. 92b that this copy was based on the copy written in Ibn Abī Ṣadiq ’s own hand.

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership and waqf stamps are found throughout the copy.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

European Research Council

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