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The record is made up of Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ii+291+iii. It was created in 17th century. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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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. 873).
Contents:
- 1) Galen (جالينوس), Alexandrian Summary of On the Sects of Medicine (جوامع الإسكندرانيين لكتاب جالينوس في فرق الطب; ff. 2v-20v);
- 2) Galen (جالينوس), Alexandrian Summary of the Small Art of Medicine (جوامع الإسكندرانيين لكتاب جالينوس في الصناعة الطبيّة الصغيرة; ff. 20v-48r);
- 3) Galen (جالينوس), Alexandrian Summary of the Small Book of the Pulse to Teuthras (جوامع الإسكندرانيين لكتاب جالينوس في النبض الصغير إلى طوثرن; ff. 48r-72v);
- 4) Galen (جالينوس), Alexandrian Summary of the Therapeutics to Glaucon (جوامع الإسكندرانيين لكتاب جالينوس إلى غلوقن في اسم الطبيعة وفي شفاء الأمراض; ff. 72v-157r);
- 5) Galen (جالينوس), Alexandrian Summary of the On Elements according to Hippocrates (جوامع الإسكندرانيين لكتاب جالينوس في عناصر بحسب رأي أبقراط; ff. 157r-176r);
- 6) Galen (جالينوس), Alexandrian Summary of On Mixture (جوامع المزاج; ff. 176r-208r);
- 7) Galen (جالينوس), Alexandrian Summary of On Natural Faculties (جوامع كتاب جالينوس في القوى الطبيعية; ff. 208v-239v);
- 8) Galen (جالينوس), Alexandrian Summary of On Anatomy for Students (جوامع كتاب جالينوس في التشريح للمتعلمين (ff. 239v-291r).
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- Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ii+291+iii
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- 37 imagesRef: Add MS 23407, ff 2v-20v56 imagesRef: Add MS 23407, ff 20v-48r50 imagesRef: Add MS 23407, ff 48r-72v170 imagesRef: Add MS 23407, ff 72v-157r39 imagesRef: Add MS 23407, ff 157r-176r65 imagesRef: Add MS 23407, ff 176r-208r63 imagesRef: Add MS 23407, ff 208v-239v105 imagesRef: Add MS 23407, ff 239v-291r
- Physical characteristics
Material: Paper
Dimensions: 243 x 125 mm leaf [156 x 70 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: None visible; 18 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cm
Script: Nasta‘līq
Ink: Black ink, with headings and overlinings in red
Binding: Red, full leather, Islamic-style binding, with unsupported spine
Condition: Excellent; very few wormholes towards front of volume
Marginalia: Very few and all in hand of copyist
Seals: F. 2r
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- Arabic in Arabic script
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- Manuscript
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- British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
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- Add MS 23407
- Date(s)
- 17th century (CE, Gregorian)
- Immediate source of acquisition
Purchased from Mrs Taylor, April 1860
- Finding aids
Cureton, William, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum 1846-71), Item 1356, p. 629-30
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- جوامع الإسكندرانيين لكتاب جالينوس في فرق الطبّ Jawāmi‘ al-Iskandarānīyīn li-kitāb Jālīnūs fī firaq al-ṭibb Galen جالينوس
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- جوامع الإسكندرانيين لكتاب جالينوس في الصناعة الطبّية الصغيرة على الشرح والتلخيص Jawāmi‘ al-Iskandarānīyīn li-kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-ṣinā‘ah al-ṭibb al-ṣaghīrah ‘alá al-sharḥ wa-al-takhlīṣ Galen جالينوس
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- جوامع الإسكندرانيين لكتاب جالينوس في النبض الصغير إلى طوثرن ترجمة حنين بن إسحق المتطبب Jawāmi‘ al-Iskandarānīyīn li-kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-nabḍ al-ṣaghīr ilá Ṭūtharan tarjamat Ḥunayn ibn Isḥaq al-Mutaṭabbib Galen جالينوس
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- جوامع الإسكندرانيين لكتاب جالينوس إلى غلوقن في اسم الطبيعة وفي شفاء الأمراض Jawāmi‘ al-Iskandarānīyīn li-kitāb Jālīnūs ilá Ghulūqun fī ism al-ṭabī‘ah wa-fī shifā’ al-amrāḍ Galen جالينوس
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- جوامع الإسكندرانيين لكتاب جالينوس في عناصر بحسب رأي أبقراط ترجمة حنين بن إسحق Jawāmi‘ al-Iskandarānīyīn li-kitāb Jālīnūs fī ‘anāṣir bi-ḥasabi ra’y Abuqrāṭ tarjamat Ḥunayn ibn Isḥaq Galen جالينوس
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- جوامع كتاب جالينوس في القوى الطبيعية إخراج حنين بن إسحق Jawāmi‘ kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-quwá al-ṭabī‘īyah ikhrāj Ḥunayn ibn Isḥaq Galen جالينوس
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