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An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sina: First Supplement (1990-1994). By JULES L. JANSSENS. Textes et etudes du Moyen Age, vol. 12. Louvain-la-Neuve: FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DES INSTITUTS D'ETUDES MEDIEVALES, 1999. Pp. xvii + 218. BeF 990.57; $22.90 (paper).
This volume is the promised supplement to the author's An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sina (1970-1989). Like its predecessor, the supplement is bibliographic scholarship at its best. The text consists of seventeen pages of introductory material, seventeen chapters, and twenty pages of indices. The indices include a section on "Ancient Authors" and one on "Contemporary Authors." Janssens breaks the section on ancient authors into the finer divisions of "Greek and Roman Authors," "Arabic Authors," "Jewish Authors," and "Western Authors (Middle Ages, Renaissance and Modern Times)."
The seventeen rubrics under which Janssens groups his bibliographical notes are: I: Works, Editions and Translations (further divided into "Major Philosophical Works: Collective Works, Shifa and Other Major Philosophical Writings)," "Major Medical Works" and "Minor Works"; II: Bibliography; III: Biography; IV: Collective Works (and Addenda 1980millenary); V: General...