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Add MS 23409
- Record Id:
- 032-002737835
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002737835
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022565463.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023385025.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 23409
- Title:
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Kitāb al-‘umdah fī ṣinā‘at al-jirāḥah كتاب العمدة في صناعة الجراحة
Ibn al-Quff, Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ابن القف ,أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق
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A general introduction to the the art of surgery by Amīn al-Daulah Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff (أمين الدولة أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق بن القف; 630/1233-685/1286). The treatise it thought to be the earliest Arabic text devoted to surgery.
It comprises twenty chapters (مقالات, subdivided into sections (فصول); the chapters and their titles are listed on ff. 2v-3r. This copy is defective at the end, finishing abruptly on f. 131v in the middle of Chapter Twenty, Section Six (begins at f. 130r, line 1); Sections Seven through Eleven are missing.
The title page (f. 2r) contains a bio-bibliographical notice about the author by the hand of the scribe.
The manuscript was copied in 1052/1642-3 by ‘Abd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad ibn Taqī al-Dīn ibn Khālid al-Rifā‘ī (عبد اللطيف بن محمد بن تقي الدين بن خالد الرفاعي), who made the copy for his own use (علقه لنفسه; f. 2r).
Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-6):
قال الفقي إلى الله تعالى أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق المعروف بابن القف المتطبب المسيحي الملكي
المذهب الحمد لله الذي خلق الخلق بقدرته وسهل لهم الطريق إلى الحق بحكمته وهداهم إلى سلوكها برحمته
ودعاهم إلى الإطلاع على أنوار ملكوثه وندبهم إلى الوقوف أسرار جبروته وأوصلهم إليه برحمته
وأيقظ أهل العناية لحذمته وبعد فقد شكا إلى بعض جرائحته زماننا قلة اهتمام أرباب
هذا الفن بأمر هذه الصناعة ...
Ends (f. 131v, lines 30-33):
... مرهم الافربيون ينفع [تعقد العـ]ـصب ويحلل التربل
وينفع من أوذيما وأنواع السلع بمعنى أنه يعين على انضاجها و يحلل موادها أفربيون أربعة
دراهم جندبا دستر خمسة دراهم حب غار ستة دراهم [شمع أ]صفر عشرة دراهم دهن بابونج
أو دهن زنبق أو دهن سوسن أو زيت عتيق ثلاثون دراهمًا يعمل مرهم ويستعمل قيروطي
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002737835
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-002737835
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+131+iv
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022565463.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1642
- End Date:
- 1643
- Date Range:
- 1052
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 282 x 180 mm leaf [205 x 113 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; previous foliation in western Arabic numerals cancelled
Ruling: Misṭarah; 33 lines per page; vertical spacing 16 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is ‘Abd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad ibn Taqī al-Dīn ibn Khālid al-Rifā‘ī (عبد اللطيف بن محمد بن تقي الدين بن خالد الرفاعي; f. 2r)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Binding: Red leather on boards, blind tooled medalion with pendants, no envelope flap
Condition: Water damage to outer margins; ff. 114-131 damage to margins of leaves repaired; ff. 130-131 hole in folio repaired with some text missing
Marginalia: Marginal corrections thoughout, some longer notes, one in Karshūnī (f. 67r), marks that may be pen trials are visible on many pages
Seals: f. 2r
- Custodial History:
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- ‘Abd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad ibn Taqī al-Dīn ibn Khālid al-Rifā‘ī (عبد اللطيف بن محمد بن تقي الدين بن خالد الرفاعي), scribe of the manuscript, his inscription, dated 1052/1642-3 (f. 2r, centre);
- Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Wafā’ī (محمد بن محمد الوفائي), his inscription dated 1077/1666-7 (f. 2r, centre);
- ‘Abd al-Raḥīm the astrologer (عبد الرحيم المنجم), his inscription dated 1181/1767-8, and his seal dated 1179/1765-6 (f. 2r, upper margin);
- ‘Abd Allāh ibn Mawāhib al-Shirbīnī (عبد الله ابن مواهب الشربيني), his inscription, no date (f. 2r, upper half of outer margin);
- Yūsuf al-Ruhājī ? (يوسف الرهاجي ؟), his inscription, no date (f. 2r, centre).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Mrs Taylor, April 1860
- Administrative Context:
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Syria or Iraq?
- 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), Item 1361, pp. 632
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte 1975), Item 225, pp. 191-92
- Publications:
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Edition:
- Ibn al-Quff, Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq, al-ʿUmdah fī ṣināʿat al-jirāḥah, Sāmī Khalaf al-Ḥamārnah, ed., (ʿAmmān: al-Jāmiʿah al-Urdunnīyah, ʿImādat al-Baḥth al-ʿIlmī, 1994)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)