MS árabe 878 (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: Taḥqīq al-wuṣūl ʾilā šarḥ al-Fuṣūl

Title: Facilitating the Understanding of a Commentary on the Aphorisms

Original manuscript in El Escorial.

This is a lemmatically arranged commentary. The introduction begins on f. 1b; the beginning of each Book is as follows: Bk1: 3b; Bk2: 26a; Bk3: 51b; Bk4: 67b; Bk5: 88b; Bk6: 107b; Bk7: 119a.

Language(s): Arabic

References

Derenbourg-Renaud, 1941, volume2ii pagesp. 90.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 128 leaves (ff. 1a-128b)

Dimensions (leaf):

Layout

One column with 19 lines per page. The beginning and text of each lemma and the beginning of each commentary are in rubric.

Hand(s)

The text is written in naskh.

Additions:

Marginalia: The copyist has entered some corrections in the margins (sometimes marked with صح).

History

Origin: The copy was completed in 893 AH; (1488 CE) by Muḥammād ibn ʾIsmāʿīl ibn Aḥmād al-Buḥayri.

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Funding of Cataloguing

European Research Council

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