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A Manuscript of Hunayn's Masä'Il Fi'Ilm Al-Tibb in the Leeds University Collection

A Manuscript of Hunayn's Masä'Il Fi'Ilm Al-Tibb in the Leeds University Collection A MANUSCRIPT OF HUNAYN'S MASÄ'IL FI'ILM AL-TIBB IN THE LEEDS UNIVERSITY COLLECTION BY R.Y. EBIED AND M.J.L. YOUNG AMONG the collection of Arabic MSS in the possession of the Univer- sity of Leeds is an unbound MS 1 of 46 folios entitled : Kitab #alt-1 ft-hi masa'il Hunayn fi '?I*lm al-tibb, thus clearly a,scribing the work to the great scholar whose anniversary we are celebrating today 2. Hunayn's Masa'il fi 1-tibb still awaits a critical, printed edition. The book was one of Hunayn's own compositions, not a translation, and according to Dietrich in his Medicinalia Arabica 3 it became the standard catachetical work in the medical literature of the Muslim East. Hunayn produced two other books using the same material differently arranged, and M. Ullmann has discussed the diffe- rences between them in his Die Medizin im Islam 4. The work was translated into Latin by Rufinus Alexandrinus under the title Ques- tiones medicae 5. It has been discussed by a number of authorities, including L. Leclerc in his Histoire de la Médecine Arabe 6, M. Meyerhof in his Book of the Ten Treatises on the Eye ascribed to Hunain ibn Ishaq 7, and F. Sezgin in his http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Arabica Brill

A Manuscript of Hunayn's Masä'Il Fi'Ilm Al-Tibb in the Leeds University Collection

Arabica , Volume 21 (3): 264 – Jan 1, 1974

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Brill
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© 1974 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0570-5398
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1570-0585
DOI
10.1163/157005874X00418
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Abstract

A MANUSCRIPT OF HUNAYN'S MASÄ'IL FI'ILM AL-TIBB IN THE LEEDS UNIVERSITY COLLECTION BY R.Y. EBIED AND M.J.L. YOUNG AMONG the collection of Arabic MSS in the possession of the Univer- sity of Leeds is an unbound MS 1 of 46 folios entitled : Kitab #alt-1 ft-hi masa'il Hunayn fi '?I*lm al-tibb, thus clearly a,scribing the work to the great scholar whose anniversary we are celebrating today 2. Hunayn's Masa'il fi 1-tibb still awaits a critical, printed edition. The book was one of Hunayn's own compositions, not a translation, and according to Dietrich in his Medicinalia Arabica 3 it became the standard catachetical work in the medical literature of the Muslim East. Hunayn produced two other books using the same material differently arranged, and M. Ullmann has discussed the diffe- rences between them in his Die Medizin im Islam 4. The work was translated into Latin by Rufinus Alexandrinus under the title Ques- tiones medicae 5. It has been discussed by a number of authorities, including L. Leclerc in his Histoire de la Médecine Arabe 6, M. Meyerhof in his Book of the Ten Treatises on the Eye ascribed to Hunain ibn Ishaq 7, and F. Sezgin in his

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Published: Jan 1, 1974

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