Contadini A
Department of the History of Art, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Irl.
Med Secoli. 1994;6(2):349-64.
The Ibn Buhtīsū' Book on the usefulness of Animals is extant in several copies, five of them illustrated. After giving an account of the text, the Author of the article investigates its sources, finding that they are two-folded: partly coming from a Greek tradition ultimately related to Aristotle's Zoology, and partly coming from Ibn Buhtīsū' medical writings, which seem to stem from the lengthy tradition of the famous School of Gondēsāpūr. A profile of the main representatives of the Ibn Buhtīsū' family, for the first time translated here from the Arabic sources, is also given.
伊本·布提苏的《动物的用途》一书现存多个抄本，其中五个有插图。在介绍了文本内容之后，本文作者探究了其来源，发现来源有两个方面：部分源自希腊传统，最终与亚里士多德的《动物志》相关；部分源自伊本·布提苏的医学著作，这些著作似乎源于著名的贡德沙普尔学派的悠久传统。本文还首次从阿拉伯文资料中翻译了伊本·布提苏家族主要代表人物的简介。
