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Or 7499
- Record Id:
- 032-002737103
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002737103
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022562271.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023461550.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 7499
- Title:
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منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān
ابن جزلة، يحيى ابن عيسى Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʿĪsá
- Scope & Content:
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Alphabetically arranged handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى ابن عيسى), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100), composed for the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadi bi-Amr Allāh (المقتدي بأمر الله; reg. 1075-94). This copy was completed in Rajab 489 (June-July 1096) by Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan (هبة الله بن الحسن; see colophon, f. 239v, lines 10-11, transcribed below). This copyist may have been the father of the famous Nestorian physician of Baghdad Sa‘īd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan (or al-Ḥusayn; سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسن or الحسين; d. 1101), although the date of his son's death at almost 100 years of age makes this unlikely. Perhaps he was another member of the same family.
Regardless of the identity of the scribe, the copy was made during the lifetime of the author and was checked by recitation (see note on f. 13r: بلغت القراءة ['the recitation was completed']) in the presence of the author or another certified to teach the text. The perceived quality of the text is also evidenced by the four inscriptions, amongst the numerous owners' inscriptions on f. 239v, stating that owners of other copies of this text collated (قابل and عارض) their own copies against this one. The title page (f. 1r) contains annotations by many hands, including a long note on gynaecology below the title in the middle of the page.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله الذي ظهرت بدائع مصنوعاته وبهرت غرائب مبتدعاته ودل بظواهر
[صنعتـ]ـه على لطيف حكمته وأنعم على الخلائق بضروب نعمه وعم البرايا بأنواع النبات
[والثما]ر المختلفة المنافع والبحار تسقى بماء واحد ونفضّل بعضها على بعض في الأكل
Ends (f. 239v, lines 4-5):
ينتون هو الثافسيا أي صمغ السداب الجبلى وهو حار
يابس يسهل البلغم وقد اسثوفي ذكره وشرحه في باب الثاء ولله الحمد
Colophon (f. 239v, lines 6-11):
تم كتاب منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله
الإنسان ولله الحمد والمنّة وصلى الله على
سيدنا محمد النبي المصطفى وآله الطيبين الطاهرين
وعباده الصالحين وأنبيائه المرسلين وسلم تسليمًا
كتبه هبة الله بن الحسن ووافق الفراغ
في رجب سنة تسع وثمانين وأربع مائة
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002737103
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002737103
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+239+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022562271.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1096
- End Date:
- 1096
- Date Range:
- Rajab 489
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 230 x 172 mm leaf [184 x 126 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; earlier Arabic foliation and quire marks visible on some folios
Ruling: Misṭarah; 21-24 lines per page; vertical spacing approximately 13 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated section (باب) headings
Binding: Bound between card boards covered in marbled paper with marbled paper doublures
Condition: Minor waterstains towards head; ff. 1-2 and 239 hacve been damaged around the edges and repaired
Marginalia: Numerous short corrections and occasional longer marginal notes; many notes on f. 1r; ownership inscriptions and on f. 239v
- Custodial History:
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Numerous owners' inscriptions and collation notes, some dated (f. 239v)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from I.E. Gejou, 7 May 1910
- Finding Aids:
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- Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards, A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 45
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte 1975), Item 141, p. 122
- Publications:
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Study:
- J.S. Graziani, Arabic Medicine in the Eleventh Century as represented in the Works of Ibn Jazlah (Karachi: Hamdard Academy, 1980)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)