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Or 6591

Record Id:

032-002757266

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002757266

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100023025434.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100023646257.0x000002

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Or 6591

Title:

Kāmil al-ṣināʿah al-ṭibbīyah كامل الصناعة الطبية

Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās مجوسي، علي بن العباس

Scope & Content:

Encyclopaedia of the art of medicine. The text is divided into two books (جزئان), the first dealing with theory and the second with practice. Each book is divided into ten chapters (مقالات), which are further subdivided into parts (أبواب).

The manuscript appears to previously have been bound in two volumes, the first containing Book One to Book Two, Chapter Two (ff. 2-156) and the second containing Book Two, Chapters Three to Ten (ff. 257-282). Both volumes were copied in Cairo; they were begun on 17 Jumādá I 547/20 August 1152, and the first volume was completed at the end of Ṣafar 548/early May 1153, and the second on 16 Jumādá II 548/8 September 548 (see see colophon to Book Two, Chapter Two, f. 156r, lines 19, and final colophon, f. 282r, lines 17-18, both transcribed below).

Four leaves containing a fragment of a Persian text relating to hunting have been bound into the volume (ff. 283r-286v).

Contents:

Book One: Theory (الجزء الأول العلمي; ff. -114v);

Book Two: Practice (الجزء الثاني العملي; ff. 114v-282r)

Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-4):

المقالة الأولى من الجزء الأول من كتاب كامل الصناعة الطبية المعروف بالملكي

تأليف علي بن العباس المجوسي المتطبب تلميذ أبي حسن موسى بن سيار

وهي خمسة وعشرون بابًا...

Colophon to Book Two, Chapter Two (f. 156r, lines 17-20):

تمت المقالة الثانية من الجزء الثاني من كتاب كامل الصناعة الطبية المعروف بالملكي في الأدوية المفردة

والحمد لله على ذلك كثيرًا كما أهّله ومستحقه ولا حول ولا قوة إلا به وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلامه

وتمامها تم السفر الأول ذلك بمصر في أواخر صفر سنة ثمان وأربعين وخمسمائة

يتلوه إن شاء الله في أول السفر الثاني المقالة الثالثة في مداواة الحميات والأورام

Ends (f. 282, lines 12-14):

... والخريف [...]

[... يـ]ـنسون وبزر كرفس وكمون كرماني وبالكواة من كل واحد جزء فلفل أبيض ربع جزء قرنفل نصف جزء بزر (؟) وينحل ويو[...]

[...] مع شيء من مراب العسل نافع لـ.؟. الله عز وجل

Final colophon (f. 282r, lines 15-19):

تم المقالة العشرة من الجزء الثاني من الكتاب المعروف بكامل الصناعة الطبية المعروف بالملكي بالـ[...]

[... عـ]ـلي بن العباس المتطبب المعروف بالمجوسي وبتمامها تم جميع الديوان والحمد لله رب العالمين على حسن عونه [...]

[...] له وصلى الله على نبيه محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليمًا وذلك بمصر في السادس عشر من جمدى الآخرة سنة ثمان وأربعين وخمس مائة

وابتدأت بنسخه لسبع وعشر من جمدى الأول سنة سبع وأربعين وخمسمائة

والحمد لله على منه وأنعامه بالعون عليه حمدًا كثيرًا كما هو أهله ومستحقـ[ـه] ...

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+286+iii

Digitised Content:

https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023025434.0x000001

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1152

End Date:

1153

Date Range:

547-548

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Physical characteristics:

Material: Paper

Dimensions: 335 x 230 mm leaf [232 x 160 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah?; 42 lines per page; vertical spacing 18 lines per 10 cm

Script: Maghribī

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings

Binding: British Museum binding

Condition: Many holes repaired, especially f. 7; many folios have been laminated; ff. 2-282 pages framed (vassali) and boarded in gold at join

Marginalia: Numerous marginalia in Arabic and Persian, see especially ff. 156r-157r and 272r-282v

Seals: 2r, 157r

Custodial History:

‘Abd al-Bāqī ibn al-Faḍl (عبد الباقي ابن الفضل), his seal, undated (f. 2r);
Numerous owners' inscriptions (f. 2r);

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from E. Hindamian, 8 October 1904

Administrative Context:

Cairo

Finding Aids:

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. 43
Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 81, pp. 76-78

Publications:

Editions:

Majūsī, ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās, Kāmil al-ṣināʿa al-ṭibbiyya, 2 vols, (Būlāq: al-Maṭbaʻah al-Kubrá al-ʻĀmirah, 1877)
Majūsī, ʿAli ibn ʿAbbās, Kāmil al-ṣināʿah (Lucknow: Nāmī Press, 1954)

Study:

Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 140-146

Exhibitions:

Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural, Asmolean Museum, Oxford, 20 October 2016 - 15 January 2017

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Majūsī, ‘Alī ibn al-‘Abbās, physician, fl 10th century-11th century

Subjects:

Medicine, Arab
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine--Early works to 1800

Related Archive Descriptions:

Harley MS 4982
Harley MS 5098