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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Medicine, Medieval Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 6903

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Add MS 6903
Title:
Aphorisms كتاب الفصول Hippocrates أبقراط
Scope & Content:
A copy of the Aphorisms (Kitāb al-fuṣūl) attributed to Hippocrates (ca 460-370 BC), in an Arabic translation perhaps by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (AD 809-873). John Tytler, the editor of the first printed edition of this text (Calcutta, 1832), owned this manuscript as recorded on f. 1a (see Cus...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+27+v

2. Add MS 12187

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Title:
Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر and three other short medical texts
Scope & Content:
A copy of the medical encyclopaedia Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب) by Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar al-Anṭākī (داوود بن عمر الأنطاكي; d. 1599). The encyclopaedia is accompanied by three other short medical texts. The manuscript was copied in 183...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1838
Extent:

Codex; ff. vi+330+viii

3. Add MS 23409

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Title:
Kitāb al-‘umdah fī ṣinā‘at al-jirāḥah كتاب العمدة في صناعة الجراحة Ibn al-Quff, Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ابن القف ,أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق
Scope & Content:
A general introduction to the the art of surgery by Amīn al-Daulah Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff (أمين الدولة أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق بن القف; 630/1233-685/1286). The treatise it thought to be the earliest Arabic text devoted to surgery. It comprises twenty chapters (مقالات,...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1052
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+131+iv

4. Arundel Or 10

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Arundel Or 10
Title:
Medical compendium
Scope & Content:
Manuscript completed by an anonymous scribe on 3 Dhū al-Ḥijja 712/4 April 1313 in part in Aleppo (see colophon to Item 1; f. 9v, lines 5-7). The final colophon in the manuscript is dated late Sha‘bān 711/early January 1312, which perhaps indicates that the manuscript is bound out of its original...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
Codex; ff. iv+174+iii

5. Arundel Or 41

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Arundel Or 41
Title:
Firdaws al-ḥikmah فردوس الحكمة Ṭabarī, ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban طبري، علي بن سهل ربن
Scope & Content:
Encyclopedia of medicine by the Persian physician ʿAlī ibn Sahl ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī (810- c 855). This undated copy was produced by a maghribī scribe, probably in the late 13th century as suggested by Hebrew and Arabic ownership inscriptions (f. 2r) dateable to early fourteenth-century Georgia ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+276+ii

6. IO Islamic 3811

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IO Islamic 3811
Title:
Maqālat khalq al-insān مقالة خلق الإنسان Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين
Scope & Content:
Treatise on embryology, obstetrics, paediatrics and psychology by Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (أبو الحسن بن هبة الله بن الحسين; d. 1101), personal physician to the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī (المقتدي, reg. 1075-94). The text is divided into fifty chapters (أبواب), and ff. 1r-4v co...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16 Rajab 611
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+121+iv

7. Or 1347

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Or 1347
Title:
Taqwīm al-ṣiḥḥah تقويم الصحّة Ibn Buṭlān ابن بطلان
Scope & Content:
An elaborate presentation copy of Īwānīs al-Mukhtār ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbdūn ibn Saʻdūn's (إيوانيس المختار بن الحسن بن عبدون بن سعدون, known as Ibn Buṭlān [ابن بطلان], d. ca 1068) book on dietetic medicine produced for Saladin’s (صلاح الدين الأيوبي; d. 1193) son, al-Malik al-Ẓāhir (الملك الظاهر; ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Jumādá II 610
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+44+iii

8. Or 2600

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Or 2600
Title:
Kitāb al-ghādhī wa-al-mughtadhī كتاب الغاذي والمغتذي Ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن أبي الأشعث، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on dietetics and the nourishment of the parts of the body by Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath (أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي الأشعث; d. 360/970). The text is in two parts (مقالتان), divided into chapters (جمل), and further subdivided into sections (أبواب). This copy is m...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Dhū al-Qa‘dah 348
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+17+xxxiv

9. Or 2784

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Or 2784
Title:
Kitāb na‘t al-ḥayawān كتاب نعت الحيوان
Scope & Content:
Bestiary describing the characteristics and medical uses of a large number of animals. The anonymous compiler of the work (see f. 95r) claims it is based on writings by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس; d. 322 BC) and Abū Sa‘īd ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Jibrā’īl ibn ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Bakhtīshū‘ ibn Jibrā’īl ibn Bakh...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+258+iii

10. Or 3645

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Or 3645
Title:
al-Mughnī fī tadbīr al-amrāḍ wa-maʿrifat al-ʿilal wa-al-aʿrāḍ المغني في تدبير الأمراض ومعرفة العلل والأعراض Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين
Scope & Content:
Concise handbook of medicine by Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (أبو الحسن سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين; d. 1101), personal physician to the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī (المقتدي, reg. 1075-94) to whom this work is dedicated (f. 4v, line 7). The title of the text is often abbreviated...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+104+i

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