Untitled alphabetical list of substitute drugs by an unnamed author. Begins (f. 116v, lines 1-2): في أبدال الأدوية حرف الألف آس بدله خناء وورد ... Ends (f. 122v, lines 26-27): ... ياقوت بدله ضعفه ذهب ياسمين بدله سوسن انتهى ما أردنا ذكره من الأبدال
Dastūr lil-iḥtirās min al-wabāʾ wa-al-ṭāʿūn wa-ʿilāj lil-jamrah al-musammāh bi-lughat ahl al-Mawṣil ḍarabah (دستور للاحتراس من الوباء والطاعون وعلاج للجمرة المسماة بلغة أهل الموصل ضربة)
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Medical manual on the maintenance of health during times of pestilence. The mention of Mosul in the title suggests that the author is Muḥammad Badīʿ (محمد بديع), author of the preceding text on an outbreak of smallpox and measles at Mosul in 1223/1808-9 (see f. 159v, lines 5-7). If this identifi...
Contents: 1) Target 26 from the Book of Targets: Poisons, the signs of having swallowed them, their universal treatment, animal bites, the stings of vermin and repelling them (المقصد السادس والعشرون من كتاب المقاصد في السموم علامة شربها وعلاجها الكلي ونهش الحيوانات ولدغ الحشرات وطردها, ff. 145v-...
Collection of prescriptions and short chapters on medical topics
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Contents: 1) Recipes and prescriptions for the preparation and use of various medicines (ff. 90v-93v); 2) Chapter explaining the definition of the pillars on which the animal body stands, which are the four elements (فصل في بيان تعريف الأركان التي عليها قوام البدن الحيواني وهي العناصر الأربعة, f...
Untitled text on smallpox and measles Muḥammad Badīʿ محمد بديع
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Medical text on smallpox and measles (الجدري والحصبة) composed during an outbreak of those two diseases at Mosul in 1223/1808-9, by Muḥammad Badīʿ (محمد بديع, see f. 159v, lines 5-7). Muḥammad Badīʿ was a son of the Ottoman litterateur, poet and physician of Mosul Muḥammad Amīn Bek ibn Ibrāhīm B...
Medical prescriptions and two extracts on weights and measures
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Contents: 1) Medical prescriptions (f. 123r); 2) On Measures and Weights (في ذكر المكائيل والأوزان, ff. 123v-124r); 3) Medical prescriptions (f. 124r); 4) An Explanation of Measures and Weights from another Perspective (في بيان المكاييل والأوزان على وجه آخر, ff. 124v-125r); 5) Explanation of Som...
Excerpt on dysmenorrhoea from Kitāb al-dhakhīrah (كتاب الذخيرة)
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Excerpt on the treatment of dysmenorrhoea said to be from the Book of the Treasure (كتاب الذخيرة) attributed to Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت ابن قرة, d. 901; see line 18). Although material on this topic features in the edited text of the Book of the Treasure (see ed. Sobhy, chapter 18, pp. 117-18), ...
Kitāb al-abrār fī barī al-qalam wa-ʿamal al-aḥbār كتاب الأبرار في بري القلم وعمل الأحبار
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Treatise on pen trimming and ink making in eleven chapters (أبواب). The author is not named. Begins (f. 171v, lines 2-3): اعلم وفقنا الله تعالى وإياك وجعل الجنة منزلك ومأواك يشتمل هذا الكتاب على إحدى عشر بابًا... Ends (f. 180v, lines 6-14): ... صفة حبر يابس تأخذ درهم عفص وصمغ عربي وزاج ...
Kitāb Qarābādhīn كتاب قراباذين Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
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Pharmacopeia by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). The main text is preceded by a table of contents (ff. 2v-3r). Begins (f. 3v, lines 11-16): هذا كتاب قراباذين نجيب الدين السمرقندي مؤلف كتاب الأسباب ...
Two short extracts on tuberculosis. The first extract (ff. 1v, line 1-2r, line 9) is said to be from the Hippocratic Treatments (المعالجات البقراطية), a medical compendium by Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī al-Turunjī (أبو الحسن أحمد بن محمد الطبري الترنجي), personal physician to the B...