Glen M Cooper

Galen, De diebus decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic

A Critical Edition, with Translation and Commentary, of Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Kitab ayyam al-buhran

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the first edition, translation, and study of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic translation of the Galenic treatise De diebus decretoriis (kitab ayyam al-buhran 'Concerning the Critical Days'). It makes available this key text on prognosis in medicine, and at the same time throws new light on the activities of perhaps the most important translator in 9th-century Baghdad.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9781138250833
• ISBN-10: 113825083X
• Artikelnr.: 53022348

Autorenporträt

Glen M. Cooper is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Brigham Young University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword
Transliteration conventions
The scope of the present study
Part I Historical Background: Introduction
The Critical Days in Arabic
An historical reconstruction
The sciences in the Critical Days
Sources of the edition. Part II Edition and Translation of the De diebus decretoriis
Signs and conventions employed in the Apparatus Criticus
The Critical Days: Arabic edition: Book I
Book II
Book III
English translation: Book I
Book II
Book III. Part III Commentary: Preface to commentary
Referencing the main text
Book I
Book II
Book III. Part IV Appendices
Bibliography
Indices.