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The Arabic version of Galen's De Sectis ad eos qui introducuntur

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

J. S. Wilkie  and
G. E. R. Lloyd
G. E. R. Lloyd
Affiliation:
Cambridge
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In this study we have compared an Arabic translation with a well-edited Greek text, in the preparation of which, moreover, the editors have found no evidence of any major lacunae in their MSS, and which we may suppose to correspond closely with Galen's original composition. It was, consequently, from the first improbable that we should make any very striking discoveries: nothing was to be expected at all comparable with the indubitable evidence for the inversion of a leaf in the codex from which are derived our Greek manuscripts of Galen's An in arteriis natura sanguis contineatur (Furley and Wilkie, CR xxii [1972] 164–7).

For anyone interested in the Arabic translations of Galen's works there was, however, a compensatory advantage in the possibility thus presented of assessing the quality of the Arabic version. The reputation of the translator, Hunain ibn Isḥāq, has, indeed, already been long established; and we were prepared to find his translation at the least respectable; it is safe to say, however, that we have found it uniformly excellent.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 98 , November 1978 , pp. 167 - 169
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1978

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References

1 We must express our warmest thanks to Dr M. C. Lyons of Pembroke College Cambridge, who has been most generous in allowing us to consult him on many particular points. He takes, of course, no responsibility for any inaccuracies that may remain.

2 See Slane, M. le Baron de, Catalogue des Manuscrits Arabes (Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Manuscrits) Paris 1883–1895Google Scholar; Hitti, Philip K., Faris, Nabih Amin, Ἁbd-al-Malik, Butrus, Descriptive Catalog of the Garrett Collection of Arabic Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library (Princeton Oriental Texts v) Princeton 1938Google Scholar.