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Or 9452
- Record Id:
- 032-002402790
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002402790
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000094.0x00011a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023513873.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 9452
- Title:
- Medical compendium
- Scope & Content:
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Contains two medical treatises and a collection of ten extracts from poets and medical authors.
- (1) Hippocrates (أبقراط), al-Fuṣūl (الفصول) (ff 1v-32r);
- (2) Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة), Minhāj al-bayān (منهاج البيان) (ff 21v-62r);
- (3) Ten extracts on medical topics in verse and prose (ff 62r-64v).
The title page (f. 1r) lists the contents as Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ (فصول أبقراط) and Fuṣūl al-sittah (فصول الستة).
The date of the manuscript is found in the colophon of maqālah 1 of the Minhāj al-Bayān (f. 32r, lines 8-9):
يوم الأربعاء الثالث من رمضان سنة تسعين وستمائة الهجرية ('Thursday 3 Ramaḍān 690 AH'/Thursday 30 August AD 1291).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002402790", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 9452: Medical compendium" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002404537", "parent" : "032-002402790", "text" : "Or 9452, ff 1v-21r: فصول أبقراطFuṣūl Abuqrāṭ" },{ "id" : "040-002404568", "parent" : "032-002402790", "text" : "Or 9452, ff 21v-62r: Fuṣūl al-sittah فصول الستةIbn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ‘Īsá ابن جزلة، يحيى بن عيسى" },{ "id" : "040-002404582", "parent" : "032-002402790", "text" : "Or 9452, ff 62r-64v: Three short poems and seven medical extracts" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002402790
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Or 9452, ff 1v-21r : فصول أبقراطFuṣūl Abuqrāṭ
Or 9452, ff 21v-62r : Fuṣūl al-sittah فصول الستةIbn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ‘Īsá ابن جزلة، يحيى بن عيسى
Or 9452, ff 62r-64v : Three short poems and seven medical extracts
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- 032-002402790
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 9452
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff v+64+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000094.0x00011a
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1291
- End Date:
- 1291
- Date Range:
- 3 Ramaḍān 690
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 155 x 80 mm leaf [128 x 47 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic pagination in black ink
Ruling: Misṭarah; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 19 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink; headings, titles and occasional text stops in gold; frames in red, blue and gold; illuminations in black, red, blue, green and gold
Decoration: Table of contents on title page (f. 1r) illuminated in black, red, blue, green and gold; kufic basmalah illuminated in black, red, blue, green and gold in rectangles spanning tops of ff. 1v and 2r; basmalah illuminated in black, red, blue, green and gold in rectangles at upper margin with foliate indicators in margin towards fore-edge on ff. 21v and 33v
Binding: Islamic binding in red leather with envelope flap; blind tooled foliated frame, large corner pieces, medallion and pendants on covers and flap; pastedowns and flyleaves front and back of paper painted bright yellow, varnished and polished
Condition: Moderate damage to leaves due to worms and ink corrosion repaired especially in first half of volume
Marginalia: Owners' notes on title page (f. 1r); very few marginal corrections (e.g. ff. 1v and 23r); one longer not has been preserved during trimming and extends beyond the average leaf dimensions (f. 22v)
- Custodial History:
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Two owners' notes on title page (f. 1r):
- Inscription dated early Rabī‘ I 1089 AH (late April 1678); name erased
- Inscription dated late Jumādá I 1174 AH (early January 1761); name unclear
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from M. Nahman, 14 June 1924
- Finding Aids:
-
Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte 1975), item 1
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)