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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Medicine, Medieval Level [40] File

1. Arundel Or 10, ff 28r-55r

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 10, ff 28r-55r
Title:
Isagoge كتاب إيساغوجي Galen جالينوس Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī حنين بن إسحق العبادي
Scope & Content:
An Arabic translation in question-and-answer format of the Ars medica (Τέχνη ἰατρική) by Galen of Pergamon (جالينوس ; d. ca 216). The Arabic title إيساغوجي (Īsāghūjī) transcribes the the Greek word εἰσαγωγή (eisagōgē), meaning ‘introduction’. The Arabic version was begun by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
ff. 28r-55r

2. Or 2601, ff 1r-38v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2601, ff 1r-38v
Title:
Kitāb fīhī ajzā’ min Minhāj al-ṭibb كتاب فيه أجزاء من منهاج الطب
Scope & Content:
Extracts concerning pharmacology from the Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān (منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان) by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100) and from the Pandects or Kunnāsh (كناش), called here the Nushat al-bīmāristān (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Ff. 1r-38v

3. Or 2601, ff 39r-78v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2601, ff 39r-78v
Title:
al-Irshād li-maṣāliḥ al-anfus wa-al-ajsād الإرشاد لمصالح الأنفس والأجساد Ibn Jumayʿ, Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn ابن جميع، هبة الله بن زين
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a general guide to medicine by al-Muwaffiq Shams al-Riyāsah abū al-‘Ashā’ir Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn (الموفق شمس الرياسة أبو العشائر هبة الله بن زين; d. 1198) known as Ibn Jumay‘ (ابن جميع), personal physician to the sultan of Egypt and Syria Saladin (صلاح الدين الأيوبي; d. 1193). The w...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Ff. 39r-78v

4. Or 9452, ff 62r-64v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9452, ff 62r-64v
Title:
Three short poems and seven medical extracts
Scope & Content:
The three short poems on f. 62r are not about medicine. The seven medical extracts are as follows: 1. Recipe for the medicine bakhtajūsh (بختجوش) made from grape juice (f. 62v) 2. Discussion of two bezoars (بادزهر), the ḥajar al-thīrān (حجر الثيران) and the ḥajar al-tays (حجر التيس) and their...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
3 Ramaḍān 690
Extent:
ff. 62r-64v

5. Sloane MS 3032

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3032
Title:
المقالة الثالثة من كتاب جالينوس في حيلة البروء al-Maqālah al-thālithah min Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ḥīlat al-burū’ Jālīnūs جالينوس
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of Book Three of Galen's (جالينوس) De methodo medendi (Θεραπευτικὴ μέθοδος; حيلة البروء). The Arabic translation from the Greek was made by Ḥubaysh ibn al-Ḥasan (حبيش بن الحسن known as Ḥubaysh al-A‘sam [حبيش الأعسم]; AD 9th century), and partially revised by his uncle, Ḥunayn ibn ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+64+ii