A Manuscript of Hunayn's Masä'Il Fi'Ilm Al-Tibb in the Leeds University Collection

A MANUSCRIPT OF HUNAYN'S MASÄ'IL FI'ILM AL-TIBB IN THE LEEDS UNIVERSITY COLLECTION BY R.Y. EBIED AND M.J.L. YOUNG AMONG the collection of Arabic MSS in the possession of the Univer- sity of Leeds is an unbound MS 1 of 46 folios entitled : Kitab #alt-1 ft-hi masa'il Hunayn fi '?I*lm al-tibb, thus clearly a,scribing the work to the great scholar whose anniversary we are celebrating today 2. Hunayn's Masa'il fi 1-tibb still awaits a critical, printed edition. The book was one of Hunayn's own compositions, not a translation, and according to Dietrich in his Medicinalia Arabica 3 it became the

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