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Or 3645
- Record Id:
- 032-002787874
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002787874
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023431928.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023696659.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 3645
- Title:
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al-Mughnī fī tadbīr al-amrāḍ wa-maʿrifat al-ʿilal wa-al-aʿrāḍ
المغني في تدبير الأمراض ومعرفة العلل والأعراض
Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين
- Scope & Content:
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Concise handbook of medicine by Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (أبو الحسن سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين; d. 1101), personal physician to the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī (المقتدي, reg. 1075-94) to whom this work is dedicated (f. 4v, line 7). The title of the text is often abbreviated to Kitāb al-mughnī fī al-ṭibb (كتاب المغني في الطبّ).
The text is arranged by illness, and each one is assigned to a table. Each table takes up a page, and all pages of the text except for 4v, 5r and 104r contain tables. the tables are divided into four cells containing information about (1) the illness (مرض); (2) its cause (سبب); (3) its symptoms (عرض); and (4) the regimen (تدبير) recommended for its cure, often including a prescription (صفة).
Folios 1r-3v contain medical notes in Persian and Arabic.
The completion date in the colophon of this manuscript is barely legible (f. 104r, lines 9-10), but appears to read Jumādá I 307/September-October 919. This can hardly be the true transcription date since the author was not born until 436 AH/AD 1045. The reading of the date in this colophon has been the subject of controversy, and two Persian notes below the colophon discuss the date. The first reads the date in the colophon as 309 AH/AD 921-22 and notes that this does not conincide with the regnal dates of caliph al-Muqtadī; the second correctly dates the end of al-Muqtadī's reign to 487 AH/AD 1094. The two printed catalogues in which this manuscript appears read the date in the colophon as 534 AH/AD 1139, just 38 years after the death of the author.
Begins (f. 4v, lines 2-3):
[...] الخبير أبو الحسن سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسن الفيلسوف إنّ أولى ما نطق به اللسان وثبت برهانه في الجنان (؟)
[...] الأزمان التي أوجد المخلوقات بقدرته وفضل الإنسان على جميعها بحكمته وجعله عالمًا متوسطًا ...
End and colophon (f. 104) are mutilated and mostly illegible.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002787874
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002787874
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+104+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023431928.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Farsi
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 225 x 170 mm leaf [200 x 145 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; eastyern Arabic foliation in black ink
Ruling: No ruling visible; average of 20 lines per page; vertical spacing 10 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Badly water damaged; many leaves mutilated and repaired especially towards front and back of volume
Marginalia: Infrequent, by more than one hand
Seals: Ff. 4r, 104v
- Custodial History:
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- Partial seal, illegible (f. 4r);
- Anonymous inscription, dated 759 AH/1357-58 (f. 4r);
- ‘Alī-Riḍā ... (عليرضا ...): his inscription, dated 1247 AH/AD 1831-32 at Qom (f. 104v);
- Seal, erased (f. 104v).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Sidney Churchill, 28 December 1888
- Finding Aids:
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- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 135, pp. 119
- Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 794, pp. 540
- Publications:
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Edition:
- Saʻīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn, al-Mughnī fī tadbīr al-amrāḍ wa-maʻrifat al-ʻilal wa-al-aʻrāḍ, ed. by Muḥammad Yāsir Zakkūr (Jiddah: Dār al-Minhāj lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2011)
Study:
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 160-61
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)