Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, ? 809-873 (Arab Nestorian Christian scholar, translator, physician, and scientist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 0809? - 0873
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
'Ysagoge Johannicii in microtegni Galieni', also known as Isagoge Ioannitii ad Tegni Galieni, 12th century
Part
Identifier: MS 163/ff. 1r-20v
Contents
ff. 1r-20v of MS 163 contain the text on medicine, known as Isagoge Ioannitii ad Tegni Galieni ('Hunayn's Introduction to the Art of Galen'). This text was composed in Baghdad in the 9th century by physician and scholar, Hunayn bin Ishaq (known in the West as Ioannitius). Hunayn bin Ishaq's work was based on Galen, and it came to form the central text of a collection of bound medical treatises used to teach medicine in the Middle Ages, the...
Dates:
12th century