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Or 3366
- Record Id:
- 032-002559685
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002559685
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022531380.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023468510.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 3366
- Title:
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Kitāb Dīsqūrīdis fī mawādd al-‘ilāj كتاب ديسقوريدس في موادّ العلاج
Dīsqūrīdis (Dioscorides) ديسقوريدس
- Scope & Content:
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Arabic version of De materia medica (Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς; Kitāb mawādd al-‘ilāj), by Pedanius Dioscorides (Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, ديسقوريدس; ca AD 40- ca 90) of Anazarbus (modern Anavarza in south-central Turkey).
This copy was completed at Baghdad on 10 Rabī‘ I 735/8 November 1334 (see colophon on f. 181r, transcribed below).
Contents:
- Book 3 (المقالة الثالثة; ff. 2r-115v);
- Book 4 (المقالة الرابعة; ff. 116v-181r).
Begins (f. 2r, lines 1-3):
مستقيمة والذكر منه مستدير وليس بذي طبقات بل هو شيء واحد
وكلاهما في الطعم متشابهين أوّل ما بدا فإن يوجد في طعمها
حلاوة ثمر من بعد يتغير طعمه فيه شيء من مرارة ...
Ends (f. 181r, lines 5-8):
سڡورٮٮوٮداس
وهو ذنب العقرب ويسمى صامريوما هو نبات له ورق
قليل وبزر شبيه بأذناب العقرب وهذا البزر إذا صمد به نفع
الملسوعين من العقارب
Colophon (f. 181r, lines 9-11):
تمت المقالة الرابعة من ديسقوريدس من نسخها ونقشها يوم الخميس
عاشر ربيع الأول من سنة خمس وثلثين وسبعمائة هجرية على يدي العبد
الضعيف الحاج النقاش بمدينة السلم بغداد حامدًا ومصليًا ومسلمًا
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002559685
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002559685
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+182+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022531380.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1334
- End Date:
- 1334
- Date Range:
- 735
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 244 x 165 mm leaf [192 x 116 mm written]
Foliation: Arabic-Indic foliation in black ink; British Museum foliation in pencil; quire signatures with catchwords only at quire breaks
Ruling: Misṭarah; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; mostly vocalised; many transliterated foreign words unpointed; the copyist was also the illuminator as indicated in the colophon (f. 181r)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: 287 colour illustrations of plants; 52 spaces left blank for illustrations (note the outlines for an unfinished illustration on f. 88r)
Binding: Ottoman binding (19th century?) in brown leather with envelope flap and blocked stamped mandorla with pendants; marbled doublure
Condition: Excellent condition, but some water damage especially to illustrations on first 19 folios
Marginalia: Very occasional marginalia
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from A. Brown, 17 July 1886
- Administrative Context:
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Baghdad
- 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), Item 13, pp. 11-13
- Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts (London: The British Museum 1894), Item 785, p. 536
- Publications:
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Study:
- Sadek, Mahmoud M., The Arabic Materia Medica of Dioscorides (Québec: Éditions du Sphinx, 1983)
Edition of Original Greek text:
- Max Wellmann, ed., Pedanii Dioscuridis Anazarbei de materia medica libri quinque, 3 vols (Berlin: 1907-14)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)