El <em>Kitāb fī l-šarāb</em> o <em>Tratado sobre el vino</em> de Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Zakariyyā’ al-Rāzī. Edición y traducción de la segunda y última <em>maqāla</em> (folios 82r-86v)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present the Arabic edition and Spanish translation of the second and last maqāla of Kitāb fī l-sharāb, or Treatise on wine, by al-Rāzī. The treatise is organized into two sections: the first is a description of the benefits and harm caused by drinking wine, while the second presents the different types of wines. This second section is the subject of this paper. The manuscript used in this undertaking is manuscript number 5240 of the National Library of Spain, a miscellaneous volume containing eleven treatises of varying lengths, whose themes revolve around medicine, pharmacology and dietetics. In its entirety the treatise studied comprises over fourteen folios (fols. 73r-86v) while the part that concerns us here is between fols. 82r-86v.