Intro -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- A. The sources -- I. Direct transmission -- a) Scorialensis arab. 804 -- b) Parisinus arab. 6734 -- c) Istanbul, Ayasofya 3642 -- d) The relationship between the manuscripts -- II. Indirect transmission -- a) Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. 873) -- b) Ishaq ibn All al-RuhawI (fl. 870) -- c) Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya' al-RazI (d. 925) -- d) Ya'qub al-KaskarI(fL 920) -- e) Abu 1-Hasan All ibn Ridwan (d. 1068) -- f) Abu "Imran Musa ibn 'Ubayd Allah ibn Maymun (Maimonides) (d. 1204) -- g) The anonymous annotations of Parisinus arab. 6734 -- III. Wenkebach's Greek edition and the role of the Arabic translation -- B. The Arabic translation -- I. Textual history -- II. Style -- C. Editorial conventions -- I. The Arabic edition -- II. The English translation -- Edition and translation -- Notes -- Indices -- A. Index of Arabic proper names -- B. Index of Arabic words -- C. Index of proper names and subjects to the translation -- D. Greek-English-Arabic glossary -- E. Index of passages cited.

This volume offers the first critical edition of Book I of the Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics. The Arabic text is accompanied by an English translation and extensive notes on the differences between the Greek original and the Arabic version. The introduction outlines the complex history of the Greek and Arabic text and discusses the author, date and stylistic features of the Arabic translation.

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