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Or 2600
- Record Id:
- 032-002736804
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002736804
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022561723.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023596866.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 2600
- Title:
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Kitāb al-ghādhī wa-al-mughtadhī كتاب الغاذي والمغتذي
Ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن أبي الأشعث، أحمد بن محمد
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on dietetics and the nourishment of the parts of the body by Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath (أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي الأشعث; d. 360/970). The text is in two parts (مقالتان), divided into chapters (جمل), and further subdivided into sections (أبواب). This copy is missing Part One entirely and begins near the end of Chapter 2, Section 6. The copy was made at Mosul in Dhū al-Qa‘dah 348 (January-February 960) from the author's autograph copy written in Barqī Castle (قعلة برقي) in Armenia in Ṣafar 348 (April-May 959).
At the foot of folio 17v is a summary of the colophon in Hebrew written in pencil presumably by M.W. Shapira, the manuscript's previous owner.
Contents:
- Chapter 2 (ff. 1r-4v);
- Chapter 3: Nourishment of the Natural Soul and its Organs (الجملة الثالثة في اغتذاء الروح الطبيعية وآلاته [!]; five sections, f. 5r-6v);
- Chapter 4: Nourishment of the Organs of Innate Power (الجملة الرابعة في اغتذاء آلات القوة المولدة; three sections, ff. 6v-12r);
- Chapter 5: Nourishment of the Body Parts that Have Powers through themselves and Powers which Vivify (?) through them (الجملة الخامسة في اغتذاء الأعضاء التي لها قوى من أنفسها وقوى تحيها من عبرها; two sections, ff. 12r-13v);
- Chapter 6: Nourishment of the Body Parts Through which there is no Responsibility (?) and which are not under Responsibility (?) (الجملة السادسة في اغتذاء الأعضاء التي ليست مسئولية على عبرها ولا عبرها مسئوليا عليها; ten sections, ff. 13v-17v).
Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-3):
... بتألف من الروح الحيواني ومن الهواء
الذي لا يوجد له رائحة بتة ويكون هذا التركيب
محمودًا ...
Ends (f. 17v, lines 1-3):
لم يكن بعد [...] لأعضاء وأحصائها وإنما كان
عرضي أن أذكر اغتذائها وقد ينبغي أن أقطع كلامي
في هذه المقالة واحد فيما يتلوها إن شاء الله
Colophon (f. 17v, lines 4-13):
تمت المقالة
الثانية من كتاب الغاذي والمغتذي
وفيها يذكر الغذاء والاغتذاء صنعه
أحمد بن محمد بن محمد المعروف
بابن أبي الأشعث والحمد لله رب العلمين (!)
وعمل دستور هذه المقالة بقعلة
برقي من أرمينية في صفر سنة
ثمان وأربعين وثلثمائة
ونقلت بالموصل في ذي القعدة
من هذه السنة
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- 032-002736804
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-002736804
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+17+xxxiv
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022561723.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 0960
- End Date:
- 0960
- Date Range:
- Dhū al-Qa‘dah 348
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 260 x 160 mm leaf [230 x 130 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: No ruling visible; an average of 21 lines per page; vertical spacing an average of 10 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Some tears and wormdamage repaired; text is defective at beginning
Marginalia: None
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from M. W. Shapira, 8 July 1882
- Administrative Context:
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Mosul
- 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 74, p. 66
- Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts (London: The British Museum 1894), Item 786, pp. 536-37
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Studies:
- Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp 301-2
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medzin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 138 and 200
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)