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Or 1523
- Record Id:
- 032-002747112
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002747112
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022599336.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023486694.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 1523
- Title:
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Kitāb al-bayṭarah كتاب البيطرة
Azdī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAtīq أزدي، أحمد بن عتيق
- Scope & Content:
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A treatise on hippiatrics, discussing their good and bad points, training, diseases and treatment. The text is an abridgement of the Kitāb al-furūsīyah wa-l-bayṭarah (كتاب الفروسية والبيطرة) by Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb Ibn Akhī Ḥizām (محمد بن يعقوب بن أخي حزام; see British Library, Add. MS 23416). This abridgement is attributed to Abū Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn ‘Atīq al-Azdī (أبو محمد أحمد بن عتيق الأزدي; see ff. 1r, 1v and 111r where he is called Abū Aḥmad [أبو أحمد]).
The text contains two illustrations. The first (ff. 22v-23r) labels the horse's good points; the second (ff. 62v-63r) its defects. On f. 110v appear two amuletic squares for the treatment of 'rupture (انقطاع)'.
The copy was completed 10 (?) Rajab 620/9 (?) August 1223 (see colophon, f. 111v, lines 5-6 transcribed below) by an unnamed scribe.
Contents:
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-3):
قال الشيخ الجليل أحمد بن عتيق الأزدي
الحمد لله مبتدع الخلق بلا مثال ومنشي الأشياء من
غير أشكال حمد مبتدع مزيده معتقد توحيده مصدق
Ends (f. 111r, line 12-111v, line 1):
قال الشيخ أبو أحمد هذا الذي وجته
من الأدوية والعلاجات وهما جهي (؟) على السنة
الحكماء الهندية والرومية وما التزمناه من الفروسية
وآلاتها وبالله التوفيق عليه أتوكل ولا حول
ولا قوة إلا بالله العلي العظيم
Colophon (f. 111v, lines 2-11):
تم كتاب البيطرة بحمد الله
وعونه
وحسن توفيقه ومنّه
بتأريخ العشر الأوسط من شهر رجب
سنة عشرين وستمائة
غفر الله لمن دعا لكاتبه ولصاحبه بالرحمة والمغفرة
وللمسلمين أجمعين
وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين وآله صحبه
أجمعين
وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002747112
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002747112
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+111+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022599336.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1223
- End Date:
- 1223
- Date Range:
- Rajab 620
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 210 x 140 mm leaf [152 x 95 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; quire signatures in black ink are occsionally visible
Ruling: Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing 10 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black, with illustrations in red, yellow and black
Binding: Morocco leather Islamic binding, without flap; blind tooled medallion, pendants and border
Condition: Minor insect damage, some grime, minor repairs to f. 1
Marginalia: Very few
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Sir H. Rawlinson, 24 November 1877
- Finding Aids:
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Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts (London: The British Museum 1894), Item 813, pp. 550-51
- Publications:
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Studies:
- Shehada, Housni Alkhateeb, Mamluks and Animals: Veterinary Medicine in Medieval Islam, (Brill: Leiden, 2013), pp. 118-20 and 169-70
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 219-20
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)