MS ebr. 426 (Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project)
Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: This manuscript contains commentary on the book of Aphorisms attributed to Hippocrates.
Original manuscript in the Vatican Library.
This is a Judaeo-Arabic MS of Ḥunayn ibn Ishaq's Translation of Galen's commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms. The beginning of each Book is as follows: Bk1: 8a; Bk2: 25b; Bk3: 44a; Bk4: 59a; Bk5: 81b; Bk6: 99b. It is incomplete, ending in the middle of comm. on lemma vi. 5.
Language(s): Arabic
References
, 2008, pp. 365-366.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 101 leaves (ff. 1a-101b)
Dimensions (leaf):
Layout
One column with 30 lines
One column with 29 lines
Hand(s)
The text is written in Sephardic cursive calligraphic script.
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 is unnamed and undated. Beit-Arié estimates the date of copying around the late 14th century CE.
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