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Add MS 12187
- Record Id:
- 032-002041901
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041901
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000046.0x0001c7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023517840.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 12187
- Title:
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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:
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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 1838, in Cairo, by the scribe Ayyūb of Nazareth (see colophon, f. 330, lines 9-13, transcribed below).
Contents:
- (1) al-Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar (الأنطاكي، داوود بن عمر), Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب) (ff. 3v-324v);
- (2) Anonymous notes on the medical properties of foods drawn from various medical books (من بعض كتب الطب) (ff. 325r-326r);
- (3) Hippocrates (بقراط), Kitāb al-buthūr fī ‘alāmāt al-mawt (كتاب البثور في علامات الموت) (ff. 326r-327v);
- (4) Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, ابن سينا), Extracts from the Canon [of Medicine] (القانون) (ff. 327v-330r).
Folios 1v-2r contain a table of contents to the entire manuscript.
Colophon (f. 330, lines 9-17):
وكان الفراغ من نساخة هذا الكتاب في يوم الخامس والعشرين
من شهر نيسان سنة ألف وثمانمائة وثمان وثلاثين
مسيحية في مدينة مصر المحمية على يد العبد الفقير
إلى ربه أيوب من مدينة ناصرة الجليل من عيلة
بيت مبارك فأرجو كل من نظر إلى
هذه الأسطر الحقيرة
ووجد غلطًا فيصلحه
ولا يلومني بذلك
صح
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Add MS 12187, ff 3v-324v : Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع…
Add MS 12187, ff 325r-326r : Anonymous notes on the medical properties of foods
Add MS 12187, ff 326r-327v : Kitāb al-buthūr fī ‘alāmāt al-mawt كتاب البثور في علامات الموتHippocrates بقراط
Add MS 12187, ff 327v-330r : Extracts from the Canon [of Medicine] نقل من القانونAvicenna ابن سينا
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. vi+330+viii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000046.0x0001c7
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1838
- End Date:
- 1838
- Date Range:
- 1838
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 295 x 212 mm leaf [198 x 127 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic pagination in red ink
Ruling: Misṭarah; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 10 lines per 10 cm; the written area is enclosed by a frame of double lines in red ink
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red; text frame in red ink
Binding: British Museum binding in dark brown leather
Condition: Excellent condition
Marginalia: None
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from the Rev. Hen. Tattam 13 November 1841
- Administrative Context:
- Cairo
- Finding Aids:
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- Cureton, William, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum 1846-71) pp. 458-59, Item 989
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte 1975), Item 318
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)