New Arabic Evidence on the Division of Medicine: A Text in the Margin of MS Paris, BnF, Arabe 2859, the Alexandrians’ Summaries of Galen, Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Galenic Commentaries, and Ḥunayn’s <i>Medical Questions</i>Mélanges de l’Université Saint-JosephSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/Z6ZIKFK8/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.RuthHammerschmiedElviraWakelnigNew Arabic Evidence on the Division of Medicine: A Text in the Margin of MS Paris, BnF, Arabe 2859, the Alexandrians’ Summaries of Galen, Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Galenic Commentaries, and Ḥunayn’s <i>Medical Questions</i>http://syriaca.org/cbss/Z6ZIKFK8https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/Z6ZIKFK8https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/Z6ZIKFK8Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph692021-2022183-215On the title page of a Paris manuscript containing the Arabic translation of Galenic treatises, a later hand has added a division of medicine. This division draws on material related to Galen’s <i>On Sects and Therapeutics to Glaucon</i> but cannot be linked to any particular model preserved in Greek. However, it shows remarkable parallels to the most famous introduction to medicine in Arabic, that is, Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s <i>Medical Questions</i>, and appears, almost verbatim, at the beginning of Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s <i>Résumé of the Alexandrian Summary of On Sects</i>. The article presents an edition and translation of this division of medicine, and studies its relations to other divisions preserved in Greek, Latin and Arabic. The conclusion that suggests itself is that the ultimate source of the division at stake goes back to Late Antiquity.
Hammerschmied, Ruth, and Elvira Wakelnig. “New Arabic Evidence on the Division of Medicine: A Text in the Margin of MS Paris, BnF, Arabe 2859, the Alexandrians’ Summaries of Galen, Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Galenic Commentaries, and Ḥunayn’s Medical Questions.” Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph 69 (2022 2021): 183–215.
Ruth Hammerschmied and Elvira Wakelnig, New Arabic Evidence on the Division of Medicine: A Text in the Margin of MS Paris, BnF, Arabe 2859, the Alexandrians’ Summaries of Galen, Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Galenic Commentaries, and Ḥunayn’s Medical Questions,” Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph 69 (2022 2021): 183–215.Arab ChristiansGalenGreek scienceHunayn ibn IshaqIX CEIbn at-TayyibNestoriansVII-XVIII CEXI CEmedicineprimary sources [Arabic] + English translation