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A NEW “EDITION” OF ḤUNAYN'S RISĀLA

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Ḥunayn ibnIsḥāq, Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq on his Galen Translations, ed. and trans. John C.Lamoreaux. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 2016. xxxiii-207 pages, series “Eastern Christian Texts” 6.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2018

Dimitri Gutas
Dimitri Gutas*
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Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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One of the most important medieval documents in the history of medicine and scholarship, and of culture in general, is doubtless the bibliographical treatise (“epistle”, Risāla) by Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (808-873) addressed to his patron and patron of the arts, the gentleman courtier ‘Alī b. Yaḥyā b. al-Munaǧǧim (d. 275 / 888-889), listing the translations of Galen into Syriac and Arabic. Its transmission and publication history, though, is extremely complicated.

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Arabic Sciences and Philosophy , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , September 2018 , pp. 279 - 284
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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