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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language Arabic Subject Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800

1. Add MS 14056, ff 19r-123v

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Add MS 14056, ff 19r-123v
Title:
Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah كتاب في علم البيطرة
Scope & Content:
Treatise on horses compiled from the works of the Mamluk Amīr al-Sayfī Yashbak al-Faqīh al-Malikī al-Ashrafī (السيفي يشبك الفقيه الملكي الأشرفي, fl. ca 1450) and Abū Bakr al-Bayṭār (أبو بكر البيطار, for both of these names see title page, f. 19v, transcribed below). The second named authority is...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 870
Extent:

Ff. 19r-123v

2. Add MS 23416

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Add MS 23416
Title:
Kitāb al-furūsīyah wa-shiyāt al-khayl كتاب الفروسية وشيات الخيل Ibn Akhī Ḥizām, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb ابن أخي حزام، محمد بن يعقوب
Scope & Content:
One of the earliest Arabic texts on veterinary medicine, the treatise on hippiatrics, was written by Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb Ibn Akhī Ḥizām (أبو يوسف بن يعقوب بن أخي حزام, see title page, f. 2r), horse trainer of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu‘taḍid (المعتضد, reg. 892-902). The treatise is more commonly know...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+173+iii

3. Add MS 23417

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23417
Title:
al-Jamharah fī ‘ilm al-bayzarah الجمهرة في علم البيزرة Asadī, ‘Īsá ibn ‘Alī أسدي، عيسى بن علي
Scope & Content:
General manual on hunting with falcons, dogs and other animals by Abū al-Rūḥ ʿIsá ibn ‘Alī al-Asadī al-Baghdādī (أبو الروح عيسى بن علي الأسدي البغدادي, fl. 1150-70). The work was divided into two parts (جزءان), the first on the methods and techniques of hunting, and the second on the care and tr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+184+v

4. Or 1523

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1523
Title:
Kitāb al-bayṭarah كتاب البيطرة Azdī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAtīq أزدي، أحمد بن عتيق
Scope & Content:
A treatise on hippiatrics, discussing their good and bad points, training, diseases and treatment. The text is an abridgement of the Kitāb al-furūsīyah wa-l-bayṭarah (كتاب الفروسية والبيطرة) by Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb Ibn Akhī Ḥizām (محمد بن يعقوب بن أخي حزام; see British Library, Add. MS 23416). Th...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Rajab 620
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+111+i

5. Or 3830

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 3830
Title:
al-Aqwāl al-kāfiyah wa-l-fuṣūl al-shāfiyah الأقوال الكافية والفصول الشافية
Scope & Content:
A treatise on the selection, management, and training of horses, and on horse physiology and the treatment of diseases. The present copy is incomplete, ending abruptly at a section on elephants from the final chapter on other beasts of burden. The text was originally written ca. 1330 by al-Mali...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+128+ii

6. Or 5033

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5033
Title:
al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb القانون في الطبّ Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
The Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, Latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037). This complete copy of one of the most influential Arabic medical texts is richly illuminated, decorated and bound in Safavid ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
4 Shawwāl 1069
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+645+i

7. Or 7470, ff 185r-207v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7470, ff 185r-207v
Title:
al-Yaḥyāwīyah fī ḥubb khayr al-barīyah اليحياوية في حب خير البرية
Scope & Content:
Anonymous treatise on hippiatry entitled Treatise for Yaḥyá, on Love for the Best of Creation (اليحياوية في حب خير البرية, f. 185v, line 13). The copy was completed on 18 Rabīʿ I 893/ 2 March 1488 by the scribe ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāḍir ibn al-Ḥaydar (علي بن محمد بن الحاضر بن الحيضر, see coloph...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18 Rabīʿ I 893
Extent:

Ff. 185r-207v

8. Or 8187

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8187
Title:
Kitāb al-bayzarah كتاب البيزرة
Scope & Content:
Treatise on falconry focussing on the health and treatment of birds of prey by an unnamed author. The title appears on the title page (f. 3r) asكتاب البيزرة صنّفه الحكماء المتقدمين للملك الاسكندري (!) الرومي وهو كتاب عجيب مما يصلح بالملوك إذ لا بدّ لكلّ ملك من مسيره إلى الصيد بإحدى هذه الطيور ال...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
12 Jumādá II 1201
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+152+i

9. Or 14376

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14376
Title:
Kitāb fī ʿilm al-zardaqah كتاب في علم الزردقة Bayṭār, Abū Bakr ibn Mundhir بيطار، أبو بكر بن المنذر
Scope & Content:
Veterinary manual on the medical treatment of horses, consisting of a summary of the fifth and sixth chapters (مقالات) of the Kitāb kāmil al-ṣināʻatayn fī al-bayṭarah wa-al-zardaqah (كتاب كامل الصناعتين في البيطرة والزردقة), also known as Kāshif hamm al-wayl fī maʻrifat amrāḍ al-khayl (كاشف هم ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Āb 1838
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+95+ii

10. Or 15639

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 15639
Title:
al-Qānūn al-waḍīḥ fī ‘ilm al-bayzarah القانون الواضح في علم البيزرة Waṭwāṭ, وطواط
Scope & Content:
Treatise on falconry focussing on the health and treatment of birds of prey attributed on the cover page (f. 1r) to al-Waṭwāṭ (الوطواط), presumably Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá (محمد بن إبراهيم بن يحى, d. 1318) the Mamluk bookseller and author of the encyclopedia of natural history Mab...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+42+i