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Or 8293
- Record Id:
- 032-002430845
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002430845
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000006825.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023479284.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 8293
- Title:
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Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam أقراباذين مدينة السلم
Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد
and other pharmaceutical texts
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript was completed in 625 AH/AD 1227-28 by ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī (علي بن أبي طالب بن علي بن علي بن علي بن الحسين الحلبي), probably at Baghdad (see title page f. 2v, lines 6-9, transcribed below).
Title page (f. 2v, lines 1-9):
إقراباذين (!) مدينة السلم
بغداد
انتزعه من عدّة أقراباذينات
هبة الله بن صاعد بن إبرهيم المعروف
بابن التلميذ تجاوز الله عنه
فرغ من نسخه الفقير إلى رحمة الله تعالى
علي بن أبي طالب بن علي بن علي بن علي بن الحسين
الحلبي حامدًا لله على نعمه وصليًا على محمد النبي وآله
أجمعين في سنة 625 هجرية
Contents:
- (1) Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id (ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد), Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam (أقراباذين مدينة السلم) (ff. 2r-128v)
- (2) Collection of medical extracts and prescriptions (ff. 129v-170r)
- (3) Three medical prescriptions (f. 170v)
In the box containing this manuscript are also fragments of its earlier binding that were removed and kept during previous conservation work.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002430845
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Or 8293, ff 2r-128v : Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam أقراباذين مدينة السلمIbn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id…
Or 8293, ff 129v-170r : Collection of medical extracts and prescriptions
Or 8293, f 170v : Three medical prescriptions
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- 032-002430845
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 8293
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. i+170+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000006825.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1227
- End Date:
- 1228
- Date Range:
- 625
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 200 x 146 mm leaf [141 x 91 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 11 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm
Script: Very clear, well pointed and vocalised naskh; the scribe was ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: Title page (f. 2a), title and author information in cloud bands in box with gold borders, on background of blue with foliate arabesque design partially shaded in red; below and to the left of this is a similar, but less ornate, box containing information relating to the scribe
Binding: Ottoman (?) binding in red leather with blind-tolled borders, medallion and pendants; no envelope flap
Condition: light waterstains, some foxing, and a notable amount bleed-through of black ink
Marginalia: Frequent marginalia by more than one hand
Seals: ff. 1r, 2r, 3r, 170r
- Custodial History:
- Folio 1r contains a number of annotations including owners’ inscriptions and seals.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Ḥājjī ‘Abd al-Majīd Belshah, 8 November 1919
- Administrative Context:
- Baghdad (?)
- Finding Aids:
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- Edwards, E. 'Some rare and important Arabic and Persian manuscripts from the collections of Hajji Abu l-Majid Belshah now either in the British Museum or in the private collection of Professor Edward C Browne', in A Volume of Oriental Studies presented to Edward C Browne on his 60th Birthday, ed. by T.W. Arnold and R.A. Nicholson (Cambridge 1922), p. 139
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte 1975), page 139, Item 158
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)