MS arabe 2839 (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 BNF.

This is a lemmatically arranged commentary. The introduction begins on f. 1b; the beginning of each Book is as follows: Bk1: 2b; Bk2: 22a; Bk3: 43a; Bk4: 57a; Bk5: 86b; Bk6: 111b; Bk7: 138b.

Language(s): Arabic

References

de Slane, 1883-95, p. 511-12.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 161 leaves (ff. 1a-161b)

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 margins (frequently marked with صح).

History

Origin: The copy is unnamed and undated. de Slane estimates the date of copying as 15th century CE.

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Funding of Cataloguing

European Research Council

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