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Or 6670
- Record Id:
- 032-002409423
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002409423
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000005112.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023991410.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 6670
- Title:
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Three Medical Treatises by Galen (جالينوس)
- Scope & Content:
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A copy of three medical treatises by the extremely influential Graeco-Roman physician Galen (Claudius Galenus of Pergamon, 129-c 200). The Greek texts were translated by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, and the texts preserved here are probably his Arabic versions (see colophon of Item 2, f. 142v, line 8).
The manuscript was completed in Damascus on 9 Rabī‘ I 580 (20 June 1184) by Ibrāhīm ibn Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Munīr al-Kīlānī (?), who made the copy for his own use (see colophon to Item 3, f. 191v, lines 9-12).
Folio 1r contains a table of contents in Arabic; f. 1v contains two lines of pious poetry and a short piece of text linking illnesses with the letters of the alphabet; f. 2r contains six owners’ inscriptions (two deleted), a deleted seal and a prescription for a bandage for headache; f. 143r is blank.
Contents:
- (1) Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-Buḥrān (كتاب جالينوس في البحران; De crisibus libri III; ff. 2v-82r);
- (2) Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ayyām al-Buḥrān (كتاب جالينوس في أيام البحران; De diebus decretoriis libri III; ff. 82v-142v);
- (3) Kitāb Jālīnūs fī aṣnāf al-ḥummayyāt (كتاب جالينوس في أصناف الحميّات; De differentiis febrium libri II; ff. 143v-191v).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- 032-002409423
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Or 6670, ff 2v-82r : Kitāb Jālīnūs fī al-Buḥrānكتاب جالينوس في البحران Galen (Jālīnūs) جالينوس
Or 6670, ff 82v-142v : Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ayyām al-Buḥrānكتاب جالينوس في أيام البحران Galen (Jālīnūs) جالينوس
Or 6670, ff 143v-191v : Kitāb Jālīnūs fī aṣnāf al-ḥummayyāt كتاب جالينوس في أصناف الحميّاتGalen…
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- 032-002409423
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. ii+191+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000005112.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1184
- End Date:
- 1184
- Date Range:
- 580
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 239 x 162 mm leaf 187 x 113 mm written
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic foliation in pencil
Ruling: No signs of ruling; 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; fully dotted and heavily vocalised
Ink: Black
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Some waterstains worse towards beginning and end (affects legibility most on ff. 49v-50r), minor wormholes, and light foxing; the lower corners towards the fore edge of ff.187-191have been torn off and repaired, but some text has been lost
Marginalia: Some longer marginal notes especially in Item 1 (ff. 2v-82r); very few after that
Seals: f. 2r
- Custodial History:
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F. 2r contains six owners'' inscriptions (two deleted) and one deleted seal. From top down and from right to left, the legible elements are:
- مسلم الشامي الصفوري (؟) (Muslim al-Shāmī al-Ṣufūrī ?), his inscription, no date;
- في شهر ذي القعدة سنة 1058 (''In the month of Dhū al-Qa‘dah, in the year 1058'' = November-December 1648), no name;
- Pious inscription, no name, no date;
- السيد مصطفى مسعود ... الطبيب (al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Mas‘ūd ... the physician), his inscription, no date.
- Administrative Context:
- Damascus
- Finding Aids:
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- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte 1975), items 17-19
- Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards, A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 42
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)