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Transmitting a text through three languages : the future history of Galen's Peri anomalou dyskrasias /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bos, Gerrit, 1948- (Author), McVaugh, M. R. (Michael Rogers), 1938- (Author), Shatzmiller, Joseph (Author)
Other Authors: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 809?-873 (Translator), Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187 (Translator), Caslari, David ben Avraham, -1315 (Translator), Galen
Format: Book
Language:English
Arabic
Latin
Hebrew
Language Notes:Also includes text in Greek.
Published: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society Press, [2014]
Series:Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 104, pt. 5.
Subjects:
Galen. > De inaequali intemperie.
Transmission of texts.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Manuscripts, Medical.
History, Ancient.
Translations.
Description
Item Description:Includes three versions of Galen's text: a 9th-century Arabic translation by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq; a Latin translation of the Arabic made by Gerard of Cremona in the 12th century (the Latin version bears the title De malitia complexionis diverse); and a 14th-century Hebrew version made from Gerard's Latin version by David Caslari.
Physical Description:viii, 168 pages ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9781606180457 (alk. paper)
1606180452 (alk. paper)
ISSN:0065-9746 ;