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Shiw a) lock of hair b) tail c) a star d) beard
&Iji 4;s yS1Sl.p .s icJ
M&i&ith: a) beast b) tail c) star d) serpent
&I3 4;s yS,f G-
Cand.: a) lock b) tail d) tent
+ -3
-
&%
[s@iti%] [dunk] [yhita]
Dial.: a)lock x) ziqa d) serpent
+ =w
[sipia] [s@l bvfd
'Aja'ib: a) (star w.) lock d?) aragon
&lJi Ii 'u,f +-
e) homed animal etc.
392 .J 3%
e) horned animal
e) homed animal
A
[hayyiiB dqarn6hI
e) horned animal etc.
ru* aJ &e* &&A
[hayyOti% d-it leh qarne]
e) homed animal x) co~umns~~
&> li b,+ ibJ+ i u l
For item a), the agreement of Shqa' and Cd. strengthens the case for correcting
413 (dcfbba) found in the Hyderabad edition of Mwith to LIji (dhu'aa).
In d), Barhebraeus may have read the word he had before his eyes as -1
(akhbiya, "tents"). If so, this is more easily understood if the word before him
was &I as in Shifa' than if it was i+ as we have in the Hyderabad edition of
Mabahith, although the occurrence of "serpent" (kwya) in Dial. suggests that
the corruption of lihyah into kyyah had also taken place in the line of transmission
to which Bar Shakko had access (the "dragon" of 'Ajd'ib, too, is closer in
meaning to "serpent" than to "beard).
2.4. Others
a) Dioscorides, De materia medica
Most of the information on mineralogy and meteorology in the Second Base of
Cand. can be accounted for in the three sources mentioned so far.
There are also a small number of passages which must be based on sources
other than these three, as, for example, the brief list of stones with particular
medical properties found at the end of the section on the formation of mountains
(Cd. 84.4-85.3). As was noted by BakoS, the descriptions of the stones here go
back ultimately to Dioscorides' De materia medica. The brevity of the passage
makes it difficult to identify the immediate source used here by Barhebraeus, but
it may be remembered in this case that Barhebraeus is said himself to have
composed an abridgement of the De materia medica in .the list of his works
drawn up by his brother ~aqawma'~ and that we also have an extant work by
Barhebraeus on pharmacology, the abridgement of K. al-udwiya al-mufrada by
Ghafiqi (Muntakhab kit& jhic al-mufradat). 54
52 Cf. Rusa'il Ikhwh al-safa' [Busmi] 11.80 ult, tr. Dieterici (1876) 87 fin.
53 BH Chron. eccl. 11.477-20-24.
54 Partially published by Meyerhoff-Sobhy (1932-40).