London, BL, Add. 14661
source date: vith or viith cent.
edition published: 2023-04-21-05:00
language: ar; ar-Syrc; ar-Syrn; cop; de; en; fr; grc
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United Kingdom, London, British Library, Oriental Manuscripts, https://bl.syriac.uk/ms/429, Add. 14,661, London, BL, Add. 14,661, BL Add MS 14661, William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1838, 1004, William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1838, MIV

[This manuscript contains: Galen. The sixth, seventh and eighth books of the treatise of Galen, entitled de Simplicium Medicamentorum Temperamentis ac Facultatibus translated by Sergius of Ras-'ain. In total, including sub-sections, this manuscript contains 13 items.]

Syriac

author: Galen
title: The sixth, seventh and eighth books of the treatise of Galen, entitled de Simplicium Medicamentorum Temperamentis ac Facultatibus translated by Sergius of Ras-'ain
rubric: ܦܢܩܝܬܐ ܕܣܡ̈ܡܢܐ ܦܫ̈ܝܛܐ
See Galeni Opera, ed. Kuhn, t. xi., pp. 789—892, t. xii., pp. 1—158.
To each book there is prefixed a short introduction (ܥܠܬܐ.) by Sergius, addressed to the priest Theodore (see Add. 14,658, no. 1); and also a list of the names of the plants which are treated of in it, with their Syriac equivalents. Compare Sachau in the Hermes for 1869, Bd. iv., p. 73.
  author: Galen
  title: Book VI
    author: Sergius of Ras-'ain
    title: Introduction
    rubric: [ܥܠܬܐ:] ܕܡܐܡܪܐ: ܕܫܬܐ: ܕܓܠܝܢܣ: ܥܠ: ܣܡܡ̈ܢܐ: ܦܫ̈ـ[ـܝܛܐ]: ܕܥܒܝܕܐ: ܠܣܪܓܝܣ: ܩܫܝܫܐ: ܘܐܪܟܝܛܪܘܣ: ܠܘ[ܬ: ܬ]ܐܕܘܪܐ: ܩܫܝܫܐ܀
    author: Sergius of Ras-'ain
    title: List of Plant Names in Book VI, with their Syriac equivalents
    author: Galen
    title: Book VI, translated by Sergius of Ras-'ain
  author: Galen
  title: Book VII
    author: Sergius of Ras-'ain
    title: Introduction
    author: Sergius of Ras-'ain
    title: List of Plant Names in Book VII, with their Syriac equivalents
    author: Galen
    title: Book VII, translated by Sergius of Ras-'ain
  author: Galen
  title: Book VIII
  Slightly imperfect
    author: Sergius of Ras-'ain
    title: Introduction
    author: Sergius of Ras-'ain
    title: List of Plant Names in Book VIII, with their Syriac equivalents
    author: Galen
    title: Book VIII, translated by Sergius of Ras-'ain

Vellum, about 10 in. by 6 1/2, consisting of 73 leaves, a few of which are slightly stained and torn, especially foll. 1 and 56. The quires, signed with arithmetical figures, are ten in number, the last being imperfect, owing to the loss of two leaves after fol. 72. There are from 29 to 44 lines in each page.

73 ff.

- Vellum, about 10 in. by 6 1/2, consisting of 73 leaves, a few of which are slightly stained and torn, especially foll. 1 and 56. The quires, signed with arithmetical figures, are ten in number, the last being imperfect, owing to the loss of two leaves after fol. 72. There are from 29 to 44 lines in each page.

This volume is written in a good, regular Estrangela of the vith or viith cent.

See additions.

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[N.B., folio location may not be available for some items below.]

- Colophon:

ܫܠܡ: ܠܡܟܬܒ: ܦܢܩܝܬܐ. ܕܬܪ̈ܬܝܢ: ܕܣܡ̈ܡܢܐ. ܦܫ̈ܝܛܐ. ܕܐܝܬ. ܒܗ̇: ܡܐܡܪ̈ܐ: ܬܠܬܐ: ܕܫܬܐ: ܘܕܫܒܥܐ: ܘܕܬܡܢܝܐ܀

- Later hands have added some Arabic names of plants on the margins, written partly with Arabic, partly with Syriac letters.

6th or 7th century

Manuscript description based on Wright's Catalogue . abbreviated by the Syriaca.org editors.

William Wright Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1838 London 1870 MIV 3:1187