Research Catalog

Title

Commentary on Hippocrates' Epidemics book I parts I-III / Galen ; edition of the Arabic version with English translation and notes by Uwe Vagelpohl.

Author

Galen

Publication

Berlin : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

Vagelpohl, Uwe

Description

736 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"The present volume offers the first critical edition of Book I of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics produced by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 870). The edition is based on all extant Arabic textual witnesses, including the Arabic secondary transmission. The translation of this text became a crucial source for the development of medicine in the Islamic world, especially in the nascent field of clinical medicine; the number and extent of quotations in later Arabic medical works and the wide range of didactic writings created on the basis of this translation attest to its importance. The English translation, which aims to convey some of the favour of the Arabic translation, comes with extensive notes on the differences between the Greek original and the Arabic translation. A thorough comparison between the two versions of the commentary provided important insights into the translation style and terminology of Hunayn ibn Ishaq and his associates."--

Series Statement

Corpus medicorum Graecorum. Supplementum orientale ; V,1

Uniform Title

Corpus medicorum Graecorum. Supplementum orientale ; 5,1.

Alternative Title

• Hippocrates' Epidemics book I parts I-III
• In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum I commentariorum I-III versionem Arabicam
• Commentary on the ... book of Hippocrates' Epidemics
• In Hippocratis Epidemiarum Librum I, Commentariorum I-III versionem Arabicam
• Galen : comentary on Hippocrates' Epidemics Book I, Parts I-III
• Galen : commentary on Hippocrates' Epidemics Book I, Parts I-III

Subject

• Hippocrates
• Hippocrates
• Medicine > Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Greek and Roman
• Epidemics > history
• Greek World
• History, Ancient

Genre/Form

• Early works
• Early works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 9-11) and indexes.

Language (note)

• Arabic translation of the Greek with English translation of the Arabic text on facing pages; with English commentary.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 3110405830
• 9783110405835

OCLC

• 896840472
• SCSB-12779298

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library