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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).
THE GRECO-SYRIAC AND ARABIC SOURCES OF BARHEBRAEUS' MINERALOGY b) Abii'l-Barakat al-Baghdiidi, K. al-mu 'tabar (?) The following passage provides an illustration of how in looking for Barhebraeus' sources, we need to check the source at the level of single words and phrases. Cand. 120.7-121.4 (underline: agreement with Mab@ith; italic: agreement with Nic.): &*a 4 AG.~. 4uLL +& du+&a &d &a* -.+.~iir % &%%la am +*- ++dm. &- *b & . &+=,a l s a A d \ ~ - + . r ~ & . ~ ~ ~ u . r . r l c ~ c ~ ~ ~ ~ r ~ ~ a . o y a U . r ~ ~ d i W . r d . r ~ + ~ & ~ a a A % ~ . ~ r ~ + t d a + , + & ~ --.+A&&.r&.*-Le+A*plrr.r& t-3- rr m a qtnj, A. -Ma &*fa tGua%m e- +.r&Apr~enw&r~oa.d&*d.r~~~ .-.r+&a&+C;Lurd*ir-.*& [120.13 BakoS et Ci~ek: +& PBV et Nic. 11 121.1 Le+A: he+& Pet Nic.] (1) me@l d6qides awket lampide w-belsusyatii d-metwn b-laylawatii. (2a) dukkyatii hiinen d-it bhen kyiina kebritiinayiyl sdqin menhen 'ew kebritiinaye, (b) w-s&-n b-a'k haw detratpb b-qaniriitii lelyaytii, (c) w-h-a meshtwap hii haw %"fir la-kyfin5 dahhina dadlil 1-metnabmhu. (d) metnabrash &n men zalliqay kawkak, (e) akmii d-gadshi ba-shgi d-men dalqa da-lcel ddeq ayni da-lmt meneh. (3) w-hiikanna nuk saggi'e ak 'ammiid5 mettpen d-n*tin w-I-arC2 wa-1-yamrna. (4a) w-niM Mb saggi'atii methen b-lelya d-qaymin w-msattetiin, yattira'it b-s&w& (b) Men d-pehtiitii metqryfin w-'ammuqe, w-haggage saggiJe d-madmiiniye wa-&6rit&x3ye w-argwmye, (c) b-hay d-gawna map@ d-niir& kad 'am heshsh6k bir methallas gawne d-ak hden 'abed. (5) w-mi d-bdeq nuhra hi dukktii panwiya d-pehtii 'am. (6) w-b-im2m8 man 15 metlyzyiin hden nabrshatii mettul d-shemsha. (1) On 'dokides' or 'lampAdesl and & [belsusyitii] which acsematnight (pl.). (2a) Sulphureous exhalations rise from those phxwhkhhmein&em [d-it b-hen] a sulphureous substance [kyfina kebrithiyii] (b) and adhere to that air which has been moistened by the nocturnal coldness; (c) and thus that air is transformed into an oily [dahhinf~] substance which is easily kindled, (d) and iskindled@ the rays of rhe stars, (e) m happens with a a that (the lamp below) catches fire from the light of (the lamp) above. (3) Thus are seen many lights, like columns, falling both to the earth and to the sea. (4a) Many fires are also seen at night which are stationary and fid, especially in clear weather, (b) those called chasms and depths, and many illusions [haggage], blood-red, scarlet and purple [in colour], (c) because when the radiant colour of fire is mixed a little with darkness, it produces such colours. (5) When the light comes [?, bdeqp that place produces a 'phantasia' of a chasm. (6) These blazes are not seen during the day because of the sun. The section here as a whole is evidently based, as often, mainly on Mabwth and 55 . Perhaps representing Arist. Me@. 342b 17 mvdv (see n. 58 below).
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