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032-003463277 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Or 6273

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6273
Title:
A collection of works and extracts mostly on medicine
Scope & Content:
Collection of treatises, extracts and notes on medicine followed by a treatise on pen cutting and ink-making. The manuscript appears to have been in the possession of the Āl al-Muftī (آل المفتي), a family of physicians in Ottoman Mosul. Extracts of a work by the litterateur, poet and physician ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+180+i

2. Or 6273, ff 116v-122v

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Or 6273, ff 116v-122v
Title:
Alphabetical list of substitute drugs
Scope & Content:
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
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 116v-122v

3. Or 6273, ff 163v-165r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6273, ff 163v-165r
Title:
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)
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 163v-165r

4. Or 6273, ff 145v-158v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6273, ff 145v-158v
Title:
Extracts from Kitāb al-maqāṣid (كتاب المقاصد)
Scope & Content:
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 Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 145v-158v

5. Or 6273, ff 90v-113r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6273, ff 90v-113r
Title:
Collection of prescriptions and short chapters on medical topics
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 90v-113r

6. Or 6273, ff 159v-163r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6273, ff 159v-163r
Title:
Untitled text on smallpox and measles Muḥammad Badīʿ محمد بديع
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 159v-163r

7. Or 6273, ff 123r-126r

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Or 6273, ff 123r-126r
Title:
Medical prescriptions and two extracts on weights and measures
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 123r-126r

8. Or 6273, f 116r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6273, f 116r
Title:
Excerpt on dysmenorrhoea from Kitāb al-dhakhīrah (كتاب الذخيرة)
Scope & Content:
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), ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

F. 116r

9. Or 6273, ff 171v-180v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6273, ff 171v-180v
Title:
Kitāb al-abrār fī barī al-qalam wa-ʿamal al-aḥbār كتاب الأبرار في بري القلم وعمل الأحبار
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 171v-180v

10. Or 6273, ff 2v-90v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6273, ff 2v-90v
Title:
Kitāb Qarābādhīn كتاب قراباذين Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 2v-90v