Galen: Simple Drugs in Syriac Book 6 [mellel]

The Graeco-Arabic translation movement has been well studied, but Syriac, the vital connection between these two languages, is often ignored. This is partly the result of a lack of surviving Syriac texts. One such text, a sixth-century translation of Galen's On Simple Drugs by Sergius of Rēš ʿAynā, exists in the undertext of an eleventh-century liturgical work, known as the Syriac Galen Palimpsest. This palimpsest contains part of this translation. By using pioneering philological and imaging techniques, the team deciphered most of the undertext of books 6–9 and collated it with other direct and indirect witnesses. We present our digital critical edition here for the first time.希腊-阿拉伯翻译运动已有充分研究，但作为这两种语言间关键纽带的叙利亚语（Syriac）却常被忽视。这一现象部分源于留存至今的叙利亚语文本匮乏。现存的此类文本之一，便是由雷什艾奈的塞尔吉乌斯（Sergius of Rēš ʿAynā）译于六世纪的盖伦（Galen）《论简单药物》（On Simple Drugs），该文本藏于一件十一世纪礼拜仪式作品的重写本（palimpsest）之下，即后世所称的《叙利亚语盖伦重写本》（Syriac Galen Palimpsest）。该重写本仅存该译本的部分内容。研究团队借助开创性的语文学与成像技术，解读了该书第6至9卷的大部分下层文本，并将其与其他直接、间接佐证文本进行了校勘。本文首次公开该数字批判校勘本（digital critical edition）的研究成果。