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Aphorisms كتاب الفصول
Hippocrates أبقراط
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A copy of the Aphorisms (Kitāb al-fuṣūl) attributed to Hippocrates (ca 460-370 BC), in an Arabic translation perhaps by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (AD 809-873). John Tytler, the editor of the first printed edition of this text (Calcutta, 1832), owned this manuscript as recorded on f. 1a (see Custodial History for transcription). In an advertisement (i.e. introduction) to his edition of the text, Tytler describes how he came to possess it while living in India as an Assistant Surgeon at the Bengal Establishment of the East India Service :‘[the manuscript was] procured by myself from a native physician in Patna, through the favour of my friend, Henry Douglas, Esq. of that city…’ (Aphorisms of Hippocrates, 1932, Advertisement).
Tytler had two manuscripts of the Aphorisms at his disposal when he prepared his edition, and he considered his other manuscript to be ‘considerably more correct’ than this one (ibid.).
The text is divided in to 7 books (مقالات):
المقالة الأولى (Book 1; ff. 1v-5r);
المقالة الثانية (Book 2; ff. 5r-8v);
المقالة الثالثة (Book 3; ff. 8v-11v);
المقالة الرابعة (Book 4; ff. 11v-17r);
المقالة الخامسة (Book 5; ff. 17r-22r);
المقالة السادسة (Book 6; ff. 22r-24v);
المقالة السابعة (Book 7; ff. 24v-27r).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-6):
المقالة الأولى ثلثة عشرون فصلًا الفصل قال البقراط العمر
قصير والصناعة طويلة والوقت ضيق والتجربة خطر والقضاء عسر
وقد ينبغي لك أن لا تقتصر على اتوخي فعل ما ينبغي دون
أن يكون ما يفعله المريض ومن يحضره كذلك والأشياء
التي من خارج ...
Ends (f. 27v, lines 9-13):
... فصل من تزعزع
دماغه فإنه يصيبه من وقته سكتة فصل من كان لحمته (!) رطبًا فينبغي أن
يجوع فإن الجوع يخفف (!) الأبدان فصل العرق الكثير الذي يجري
دائمًا كان حارًا وباردًا يدل على أنه ينبغي أن يخرج من البدن رطوبة
إما في القوى فمن فوق وإما في الضعيف من أسفل
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Additional Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. ii+27+v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000006416.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 246 x 160 mm leaf [168 x 86 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 13 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm
Script: Ta‘līq
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlining in red
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: minor waterstains to lower margin, light foxing
Marginalia: Very few scribal corrections and other marginalia
- Custodial History:
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The following inscription is found on f. 1r: 'Aphorisms of Hippocrates (Arabic) Obtained at Patna by John Tytler Ass[is]t[ant] Surgeon Bengal Establishment East India Service'.
- 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), p. 456, Item 983
- Publications:
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- Hippocrates,الفصول الابقراطية The Aphorisms of Hippocrates, Translated into Arabic by Honain ben Ishak, Physician to the Caliph Motawakkul, ed. by John Tytler (Calcutta: The Education press, 1832)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Hippocrates, 460-380 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000435238545,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/287984736
Tytler, John, surgeon of the Bengal Medical Service, 1790-1836
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, physician and translator, 809?-873,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19690624 - Subjects:
- Hippocrates. Aphorisms
Medicine, Arab
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Medicine, Medieval
