Yahya Ibn Sarafiyun
يحيى بن سرافيون
Yahya ibn Sarafiyun — Serapion, whose two Kunnash were Englished into Arabic 1
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Yahya ibn Sarafiyun. All that he composed was in Syriac, and he was at the height of the state. His two books on medicine were translated into Arabic: the great Kunnash, in twelve treatises, and the small Kunnash, in seven treatises, according to Ibn al-Nadim 2.
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- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim
- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, p.412
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