Galen's "Commentaries" on Hippocrates' "Epidemics" :Edition and Translation of the Arabic Version of Books One and Two. (360G-Wellcome-084192_Z_07_Z)

We request funding for two RAs for 36 months each to edit and translate into English the Arabic version of Galen s Commentaries on Hippocrates Epidemics 1-2. The Arabic (c.130,000 words) and English (c.200,000 words) constitute a manageable and coherent portion of Galen s total commentary on Epidemics (which runs to c.350,000 words in Arabic). The edition will be based mainly on one manuscript in Milan (abbr. M) and one in Madrid (E1) (see Details of Research Project). For Book One , where only E1 is known, collation of the largely extant Greek with Hunain s Arabic will assist the edition, yield important results in the field of Graeco-Arabic studies and specifically regarding the development of Arabic medical terminology, and lay the foundation for understanding the Arabic of Book Two where the Greek is lost. For Book Two itself we will use M and E1 to produce a critical text. We are helped by the fact that the copyist of M preserved many interesting variants from man uscripts later destroyed by fire. An introduction will discuss the cultural and intellectual contexts of the commentary in Galen s day and in ninth- and tenth-century Baghdad, and outline the influence of Hunain s translation on medieval Islamic medicine.