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1. Add MS 6903

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Add MS 6903
Title:
Aphorisms كتاب الفصول Hippocrates أبقراط
Scope & Content:
A copy of the Aphorisms (Kitāb al-fuṣūl) attributed to Hippocrates (ca 460-370 BC), in an Arabic translation perhaps by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (AD 809-873). John Tytler, the editor of the first printed edition of this text (Calcutta, 1832), owned this manuscript as recorded on f. 1a (see Cus...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+27+v

2. Add MS 23406

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Title:
Kitab Jālīnūs fī ‘amal al-tashrīḥ كتاب جالينوس في عمل التشريح
Scope & Content:
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq''s (حنين بن إسحق) Arabic version of Galen''s major work on anatomy the De anatomicis administrationibus (Περὶ ἀνατομικῶν ἐγχειρήσεων τῶν σωζομένων βιβλία ἐννέα; كتاب عمل التشريح). The manuscript was copied in the year 887 AH/1482 AD (see colophons of the first two chapters on f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
887
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+258+iii

3. Add MS 23407

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Add MS 23407
Title:
Alexandrian Summaries of eight medical treatises by Galen
Scope & Content:
Eight treatises by the Greco-Roman physician Galen of Pergamon (جالينوس ; d. ca 216) in the summarised forms produced for the late-Antique medical schools of Alexandria, the so-called Alexandrian Summaries (جوامع الإسكندرانيين). The Summaries were translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (حنين بن إسحق; d....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+291+iii

4. Arundel Or 10

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Arundel Or 10
Title:
Medical compendium
Scope & Content:
Manuscript completed by an anonymous scribe on 3 Dhū al-Ḥijja 712/4 April 1313 in part in Aleppo (see colophon to Item 1; f. 9v, lines 5-7). The final colophon in the manuscript is dated late Sha‘bān 711/early January 1312, which perhaps indicates that the manuscript is bound out of its original...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
Codex; ff. iv+174+iii

5. Arundel Or 10, ff 28r-55r

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Arundel Or 10, ff 28r-55r
Title:
Isagoge كتاب إيساغوجي Galen جالينوس Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī حنين بن إسحق العبادي
Scope & Content:
An Arabic translation in question-and-answer format of the Ars medica (Τέχνη ἰατρική) by Galen of Pergamon (جالينوس ; d. ca 216). The Arabic title إيساغوجي (Īsāghūjī) transcribes the the Greek word εἰσαγωγή (eisagōgē), meaning ‘introduction’. The Arabic version was begun by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 28r-55r

6. Arundel Or 17

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Arundel Or 17
Title:
كتاب اختصار الستة عشر لجالينوس تلخيص يحيى النحوي Kitāb ikhtiṣār al-sittat ‘ashr li-Jālīnūs talkhīṣYahyá al-Naḥwī
Scope & Content:
Epitome of the Sixteen Books of Galen, treatises by Galen for beginners selected to form the primary medical curriculum in late-antique Alexandria. The title page (f. 2) reads: كتاب اختصار الست عشر لجالينوس تلخيص يحيى النحوي ('Epitome of the Sixteen Books by Galen summarised by Yaḥyá the grammar...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
615
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii.141.iii

7. Arundel Or 52

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Arundel Or 52
Title:
Ars medica (Ars parva) الصناعة الصغيرة Galen جالينوس With commentary by Abū al-Faraj ‘Abd Allāh Ibn al-Ṭayyib (أبو الفرج عبد الله بن الطيب)
Scope & Content:
A copy of Galen''s Τέχνη ἰατρική (Ars medica) in the Arabic version thought to be by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī. In Arabic, the text is called الصناعة الصغيرة (Ars parva). The text is accompanied by a commentary by Abū al-Faraj ‘Abd Allāh Ibn al-Ṭayyib (أبو الفرج عبد الله بن الطيب). The copy is ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
448
Extent:
Codex; ff. iii+114+ii

8. Or 1347

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Or 1347
Title:
Taqwīm al-ṣiḥḥah تقويم الصحّة Ibn Buṭlān ابن بطلان
Scope & Content:
An elaborate presentation copy of Īwānīs al-Mukhtār ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbdūn ibn Saʻdūn's (إيوانيس المختار بن الحسن بن عبدون بن سعدون, known as Ibn Buṭlān [ابن بطلان], d. ca 1068) book on dietetic medicine produced for Saladin’s (صلاح الدين الأيوبي; d. 1193) son, al-Malik al-Ẓāhir (الملك الظاهر; ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Jumādá II 610
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+44+iii

9. Or 3366

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Or 3366
Title:
Kitāb Dīsqūrīdis fī mawādd al-‘ilāj كتاب ديسقوريدس في موادّ العلاج Dīsqūrīdis (Dioscorides) ديسقوريدس
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of De materia medica (Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς; Kitāb mawādd al-‘ilāj), by Pedanius Dioscorides (Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, ديسقوريدس; ca AD 40- ca 90) of Anazarbus (modern Anavarza in south-central Turkey). This copy was completed at Baghdad on 10 Rabī‘ I 735/8 November 1334 (see colophon...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
735
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+182+ii

10. Or 6670

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Or 6670
Title:
Three Medical Treatises by Galen (جالينوس)
Scope & Content:
A copy of three medical treatises by the extremely influential Graeco-Roman physician Galen (Claudius Galenus of Pergamon, 129-c 200). The Greek texts were translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, and the texts preserved here are probably his Arabic versions (see colophon of Item 2, f. 142v, li...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
580
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+191+ii