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Arundel Or 10

Record Id:

032-002409588

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002409588

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000005583.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100023878596.0x000002

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Arundel Or 10

Title:

Medical compendium

Scope & Content:

Manuscript completed by an anonymous scribe on 3 Dhū al-Ḥijja 712/4 April 1313 in part in Aleppo (see colophon to Item 1; f. 9v, lines 5-7). The final colophon in the manuscript is dated late Sha‘bān 711/early January 1312, which perhaps indicates that the manuscript is bound out of its original order (see colophon to Item 8, f. 174r, lines 13-14).

Folio 1 appears to have been salvaged from within a previous binding. It contains a densely written text, unrelated to medicine, entitled ‘a tale (حكاية)’.

Folios 2r-3v contain a poem against wine and those who praise it (هذه قصيدة في ذم الخمر وذم مادحها; f. 2r, line 2) by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Quwwās (صلاح الدين القواس). The poem was copied in an undisciplined hand, presumably that of a reader, on the front papers of the manuscript and around other notes and marginalia.

Apart from the two short texts on ff. 1r-3v, three further naskh hands are distinguishable in the remainder of the manuscript. Items 1-2 (ff. 4v-27v) were written by one hand; Items 3-5 and 7-8 (ff. 28v-104v and 109r-174r) were written by a second hand; and Item 6 (ff. 105v-108v) was written by a third and later hand vertically on the page and in reverse order so that the text is to be read turning the pages from right to left (the foliation has been reversed for this item). Folios 104v-108r (NB: this is one opening) and 123v have been left blank.

Judging by the facts that the items on ff. 4v-27v and those on ff. 28v-174r were written by separate hands, and that a title page is found on f. 28r that lists the texts on ff. 28v-174r but does not mention those on ff. 4v-27v, it seems that ff. 4v-27v and ff. 28v-174r were originally two separate manuscripts that were subsequently bound together. The paper, however, on which these two sections of the present volume were written, appears to be identical.

Contents:

(1) Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (ابن تيمية، أحمد بن عبد الحليم), Refutation of an anonymous poem excusing disbelief in God (ff. 4v-9v);
(2) Fragment of an anonymous text on domestic economy (10r-27v);
(3) Galen (جالينوس), Isagoge (كتاب إيساغوجي; Introductio sive medicus) (ff. 28r-55r);
(4) Anonymous, al-Rawdah al-ṭibbīyah (الروضة الطبي) (ff. 55v-82r);
(5) Anonymous, Mukhtaṣar fī ‘ilm al-uṣūl (مختصر في علم الأصول) (ff. 82r-104v);
(6) Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarālī (أبو الحسن الحرالي), Untitled work on the virtues and uses of the letters (ff. 105v-108v; foliation reversed);
(7) Avicenna (Ibn Sīna) (ابن سينا; actual author Ibn al-Tilmidh [ابن التلميذ]), al-Maqālah al-Amīnīyah fī faṣad al-‘urūq (المقالة الأمينية في فصد العروق) (ff. 109r-123r);
(8) Abū al-Ḥasan Sa‘īd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan (أبو الحسن سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسن), Maqālat al-ḥudūd wa-al-furūq (مقالة الحدود والفروق) (ff. 124r-174r)

Title page (f. 28r, lines 1-12):

جملة ما في هذه المجلدة [؟] من الكتب

كتاب إيساغوجي لجالينوس

انتحله حنين ومات من غير تتمة

وانحل حبيش تتمته وادعائه لهما

ولذلك هو معنون بمسائل حنين بزيادات حبيش

ولم يشعرو[ا] الأطباء المتأخرين بذلك يسمي لهما

وفي كتاب الروضة الطبية وفيه مختصر الـ[ـأ]صول

وفيه المقالة الأمينية في الفصد وفيه

كتاب الحدود لأبي الحسين سعيد بن هبة الله

بن الحسن الطبيب

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Arundel Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

Hierarchy Tree:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+174+iii

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1312

End Date:

1313

Date Range:

711-712

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper

Dimensions: 174 x 124 mm leaf [130 x 94 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling:

Misṭarah; 11 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm (ff. 4v-27v);
Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing lines per 10 cm (ff. 28v-104r and 109r-174r);
No ruling visible; average 18 lines per page; 16 lines per 10 cm (ff. 105v-108v)

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and over lining in red

Binding: British Museum binding in brown leather

Condition: minor waterstains, some foxing and light grime from thumbing, some folios torn and repaired (e.g. ff. 10, 11 and 68)

Marginalia: Occasional marginal annotations and corrections

Custodial History:

See note on f. 28r of one Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Khalīl (?) ibn al-Ḥaṣūn (?) who inspected and copied the texts on ff. 28v-104r and 109r-174r on 17 Jumādá II 829/26 April 1426.

Front paper i verso contains an anonymous bookplate with motto ‘NULLIUS IN VERBA’.

Folio 4r contains stamp inscribed ‘Soc. Reg. Lond. ex dono Henr. Howard Norfolciensis’.

Administrative Context:

Aleppo

Finding Aids:

Cureton, William, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum 1846-71), pp. 456-57 (Item 984)

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Avicenna, Persian polymath, 980-1037,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121430876,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89770781
Galenus, Claudius, called Galen of Pergamon, physician and philosopher, c 0129-c 0216,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121302401,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/44299175
Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id, physician, 1073?-1164?
Ṭabarī, ‘Alī ibn Sahl Rabban, physician, fl 9th century

Subjects:

Medicine, Arab
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine, Persian
Medicine--Early works to 1800