Galen, De diebus decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic

This book presents the first edition, translation, and study of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic translation of the Galenic treatise De diebus decretoriis (kitab ayyam al-buhran 'Concerning the Critical Days'). It makes available this key text on prognosis in medicine, and at the same time throws new light on the activities of perhaps the most important translator in 9th-century Baghdad.

Glen M. Cooper is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Brigham Young University, USA

Contents: Foreword; Transliteration conventions; The scope of the present study; Part I Historical Background: Introduction; The Critical Days in Arabic; An historical reconstruction; The sciences in the Critical Days; Sources of the edition. Part II Edition and Translation of the De diebus decretoriis; Signs and conventions employed in the Apparatus Criticus; The Critical Days: Arabic edition: Book I; Book II; Book III; English translation: Book I; Book II; Book III. Part III Commentary: Preface to commentary; Referencing the main text; Book I; Book II; Book III. Part IV Appendices; Bibliography; Indices.