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IO Islamic 3811
- Record Id:
- 032-002782778
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002782778
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023384118.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023627808.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 3811
- Title:
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Maqālat khalq al-insān مقالة خلق الإنسان
Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on embryology, obstetrics, paediatrics and psychology by Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (أبو الحسن بن هبة الله بن الحسين; d. 1101), personal physician to the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī (المقتدي, reg. 1075-94).
The text is divided into fifty chapters (أبواب), and ff. 1r-4v contain a table listing their contents.
The copy was completed in Jerusalem on 16 Rajab 611/21 November 1214 by Mūsá ibn ‘Imrān al-Isrā’īlī (موسى بن عمران الإسرايلي; see colophon, f. 121v, lines 10-14, transcribed below). It is defective at the beginning, missing some brief introductory material before the table of contents.
There is a short unfoliated note bound into the volume between ff. 104 and 105.
Begins (f. 1r, lines 3-7):
وعدد هذه المقالة ...
خمسون بابًا
الباب الأول
في العلة التي من أجلها جعلت الطبيعة نوع
الإنسان مقسوم بالذكر والأنثى
Ends (f. 121v, lines 4-7):
وإذ قد بيّنا على عرض هذه المقالة لنقلع (؟)
الكلام فيها في هذا الموقع ونقلع (؟) ذلك
بحمد لله و الثنا عليه كما ابتدائها في افتتاحها
وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل
Colophon (f. 121v, lines 8-14):
تمت المقالة وأحمد لله وحده كثيرًا
المسماة خلق الإنسان
وكتب بالقدس الشريف عرسـ ...
وكتبها العبد الفقير إلى رحمة الله تعالى
موسى بن عمران الإسرايلي ببيت المقدس
وكان الفراغ منها يوم الأربعة سادس عشر شهر
رجب سنة أحد عشر وستمائة الحمد لله وصلوة صلعم
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002782778
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-002782778
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+121+iv
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023384118.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1214
- End Date:
- 1214
- Date Range:
- 16 Rajab 611
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 237 x 163 mm leaf 193 x 125 mm written
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; three further sets of foliations in eastern Arabic numerals in ink
Ruling: No ruling visible; 18 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Mūsá ibn ‘Imrān al-Isrā’īlī (موسى بن عمران الإسرايلي; see colophon, f. 121v, line 12)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Insect damage, water stains, heavely repaired, many leaves covered in netting
Marginalia: Short corrections and annotations by many hands
- Custodial History:
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Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū Rayyūn (?), physician (محمد بن محمد أبو ريون ؟ الطبيب): his inscription, undated (f. 1r)
- Administrative Context:
- Jerusalem
- Publications:
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Edition:
- Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn, Kitāb khalq al-insān, ed. by Kamāl al-Sāmarā’ī (Baghdād: Dār al-shu’ūn al-thaqāfīyah al-‘āmah, 1990)
Study:
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 160-61
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)