Volume 1
The abridged version of "The book of simple drugs" of Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Ghâfiqî / by Gregorius Abu'l-Farag (Barhebraeus) Ed. from the only two known manuscripts with an English Translation, commentary and indices, by M. Meyerhof, G.P. Sobhy.
- Abū Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad, al-Ghāfikī, -1165.
- Date:
- 1932-1940
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The abridged version of "The book of simple drugs" of Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Ghâfiqî / by Gregorius Abu'l-Farag (Barhebraeus) Ed. from the only two known manuscripts with an English Translation, commentary and indices, by M. Meyerhof, G.P. Sobhy. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ Fol. 1 v. ] In the Name of God the Merciful the Compassionate ! The following is a resume of the meaning of what Abu Ga‘far Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Khulaid al- Ghafiqi, may God have mercy on him, said. The book which 1 had begun, to prepare was originally intended as a memorandum for myself. I did not wish to publish it for two reasons: firstly, because 1 knew of the public’s imperfect knowledge of the difference between the authentic and the non-authentic works; secondly in order not to expose myself to the censure of critics, covetous of those who possess intelligence and perspicacity. When one of my friends, however, encouraged me in its copying, I wrote a preface to express its purpose1 and the method of its production, and this was also in two parts : first a collation of the sayings of the Ancients with that of the Moderns on this subject, and second a commentary on the unknown names. Various people had tried to work on these two lines; but I did not find among them anyone who attempted to verify the exactitude of his own work; on the contrary, most of them repeated the mistakes of their predecessors. Thus, some of them made faults in collating the sayings of others, as did Ibn Wafid when he collated the text of Dioscurides with that of Galen on two different remedies and thought 1. G : my purpose.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31362667_0001_0064.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
