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MEDICORVM GRAECORVM
SVPPLEMENTVM ORIENTALE
EDIDIT
ACADEMIA BEROLINENSIS ET BRANDENBVRGENSIS
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GALENI
IN HIPPOCRATIS EPIDEMIARVM LIBRVM VI
COMMENTARIORVM I–VIII
VERSIONEM ARABICAM
EDIDIT, IN LINGVAM ANGLICAM VERTIT
UWE VAGELPOHL
VOL. I: COMMENTARIA I–III
DE GRUYTER
AKADEMIE FORSCHUNG
BEROLINI IN AEDIBVS WALTER DE GRUYTER MMXXII
GALEN
COMMENTARY ON HIPPOCRATES’ EPIDEMICS BOOK VI
PARTS I–VIII
EDITION OF THE ARABIC VERSION
AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION
BY
UWE VAGELPOHL
VOLUME I: PARTS I–III
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Bibliography .................................................................................................................................... 𝟿
Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 𝟷𝟻
A. The sources ............................................................................................................................ 𝟸𝟶
I. Direct transmission .......................................................................................................... 𝟸𝟶
a) Scorialensis arab. 𝟾𝟶𝟻 .................................................................................................. 𝟸𝟷
b) Ambrosianus B 𝟷𝟹𝟻 sup. ............................................................................................. 𝟹𝟸
c) Istanbul, Ayasofya 𝟹𝟼𝟺𝟸 .............................................................................................. 𝟹𝟼
d) The relationship between the manuscripts ................................................................ 𝟺𝟶
II. Indirect transmission ....................................................................................................... 𝟺𝟷
a) Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (d. 𝟾𝟽𝟹) .......................................................................................... 𝟺𝟸
b) Isḥāq ibn ʿAlī al-Ruhāwī (fl. 𝟾𝟽𝟶) ................................................................................ 𝟺𝟿
c) Isḥāq ibn ʿImrān (d. 𝟿𝟶𝟽) ............................................................................................ 𝟻𝟷
d) Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyāʾ al-Rāzī (d. 𝟿𝟸𝟻) ................................................ 𝟻𝟹
e) Yaʿqūb al-Kaskarī (fl. 𝟿𝟸𝟶) ............................................................................................ 𝟻𝟻
f) ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maǧūsī (d. betw. 𝟿𝟾𝟸 and 𝟿𝟿𝟻) .................................................... 𝟻𝟻
g) ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Buḫtīšūʿ (d. 𝟷𝟶𝟻𝟾) ........................................................................... 𝟻𝟼
h) Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Riḍwān (d. 𝟷𝟶𝟼𝟾) ...................................................................... 𝟻𝟽
i) Abū Naṣr Asʿad ibn Ilyās ibn al-Muṭrān (d. 𝟷𝟷𝟿𝟷) ...................................................... 𝟼𝟹
j) Abū ʿImrān Mūsā ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Maymūn (Maimonides) (d. 𝟷𝟸𝟶𝟺) ............. 𝟼𝟺
k) Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Šaraf al-Dīn al-Tifāšī (d. 𝟷𝟸𝟻𝟹) ....................................................... 𝟼𝟿
III. The Greek text and Pfaff's German translation ............................................................... 𝟽𝟶
B. Context and Content ............................................................................................................. 𝟽𝟹
I. The Greek commentary .................................................................................................... 𝟽𝟹
II. The Arabic translation ..................................................................................................... 𝟽𝟻
a) Authorship ....................................................................................................................... 𝟽𝟻
b) Translation style ............................................................................................................... 𝟽𝟾
C. Editorial conventions ............................................................................................................ 𝟾𝟺
I. The Arabic edition ............................................................................................................ 𝟾𝟺
II. The English translation .................................................................................................... 𝟾𝟼
Edition and translation ................................................................................................................... 𝟾𝟿
Conspectus siglorum et compendiorum .............................................................................. 𝟿𝟶
Part I ....................................................................................................................................... 𝟿𝟸
Part II ..................................................................................................................................... 𝟸𝟺𝟶
Part III .................................................................................................................................... 𝟺𝟷𝟺
Volume 2
Part IV .................................................................................................................................... 𝟻𝟾𝟾
Part V ...................................................................................................................................... 𝟽𝟻𝟶
Part VI .................................................................................................................................... 𝟿𝟸𝟾
8 Table of contents
Volume 3
Part VII .................................................................................................................................. 𝟷𝟶𝟿𝟺
Part VIII ................................................................................................................................. 𝟷𝟸𝟼𝟸
Indices .............................................................................................................................................. 𝟷𝟺𝟼𝟶
A. Index of Arabic proper names ............................................................................................... 𝟷𝟺𝟼𝟶
B. Index of Arabic words ........................................................................................................... 𝟷𝟺𝟼𝟿
C. Index of proper names and subjects to the translation ......................................................... 𝟷𝟼𝟿𝟻
D. Index of passages cited ........................................................................................................... 𝟷𝟽𝟾𝟸
Addenda et corrigenda .................................................................................................................... 𝟷𝟾𝟶𝟷
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