paru en 2009International audienceIn a series of articles published in the 1970's, Rainer Degen identified three Syriac manuscripts of a medical treatise probably compiled and translated from Greek sources in 9th century ʿAbbāsid Baghdad by the celebrated physician and scholar Ḥunayn ibn-Isḥāq. The compilation is essentially an abridged Syriac translation of Galen's treatise On the Properties of Foodstuffs (De Alimentorum Facultatibus, Περὶ τροφῶν δυνάμεων, Kühn VI 453-748) to which the compiler has added thematically related extracts drawn from other Greek medical authorities, including Dioscorides, Hippocrates, Rufus of Ephesus, and several minor authors whose writings were apparently known to Ḥunayn through the Medical Collection of Orib...