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IO Islamic 1142

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032-003121224

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Reference (shelfmark):

IO Islamic 1142

Title:

Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah جامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية

Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ابن البيطار، عبد الله بن أحمد

Scope & Content:

The most influential and important Arabic handbook of materia medica, written by the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad (ضياء الدين أبو محمد عبد الله بن أحمد; d. 1248), known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (ابن البيطار), Chief Herbalist (رئيس العشابين) to the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil (reg. 1218-38). The text is here called the Jāmi‘ Ibn Bayṭār fī ma‘rifat al-adwīyah wa-khwāṣṣihā wa-manāfi‘ihā wa-maḍārrihā (جامع ابن بيطار في معرفة الأدوية وخواصها ومنافعها ومضارها; see colophon on f. 550r, line 10, transcribed below). This copy was completed 'in the late morning of the second Friday of the third tenth of Sha‘bān, in the year 925 AH' (= 29 Sha‘bān 925/26 August 1519), by ‘Alī ibn Ḥusayn ibn Maḥmūd, nicknamed Kamāl al-Kātib (علي بن حسين بن محمود الملقّب بكمال الكاتب; see colophon on f. 550r, lines 11-12 and 14-16, transcribed below).

Begins (f. 1v, lines 1-2):

الحمد لله الذي أقام بلطيف حكمته بنية الإنسان فأختصه بما علمه من بديع البيان و

سخر له ما في الأرض من جماد ونبات وحيوان ...

Ends (f. 550r, lines 6-8):

... ينمة الينمة معروفة بالقيروان وهي عندهم مختبرة في الجرا

وهي نبتة بيضاء ورقها أزغب لها ورق فيما بين ورق لسان الحمل البري وورق آذان الغزال

إلا أنه أصغر يخرج من ورقها في الوسط ساق طولها شبر وأقل وأكثر في غلظ الغرل وارق

Colophon (f. 550r, lines 9-19):

تمت

كتابة الكتاب المسمى بجامع ابن بيطار في معرفة الأدوية وخواصها ومنافعها ومضارها

بعون الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه ضحوة الجمعة الثاني من عشر الثالث من شعبان

سنة خمس وعشرين وتسعمائة الهجرية النبوية المصطفوية صلوات الله وسلامه

وتحيته وبركاته الطيبات الزاكيات الوفيات عليه وآله وشيعته

وأهل بيته أفضل صلوات الله عدد معلومات الله على الأمل (؟) العبد

الفقير الحقير علي بن حسين بن محمود الملقب بكمال

الكاتب أصلح أحواله وغفر ذنوبه

برحمته وفضله العميمة الواسعة

الجليلة وكرمه الغطيمة

الوافية

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex; iii+550+iv ff

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1519

End Date:

1519

Date Range:

29 Sha‘bān 925

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Eastern wove paper set in frames of Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 255 x 155 mm leaf [140 x 90 mm written]

Foliation: British Library foliation in pencil

Ruling: No ruling visible; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh; the scribe is ‘Alī ibn Ḥusayn ibn Maḥmūd nicknamed Kamāl al-Kātib (علي بن حسين بن محمود الملقّب بكمال الكاتب)

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headwords and names of cited authorities

Decoration: Headpiece illuminated with gold and blue, white, red, yellow and greeen pigments; includes calligraphed basmallah

Binding: Western binding with boards covered with mabled paper; leather corners; white paper

Condition: Spine missing; boards detached; wormholes, some repaired

Marginalia: Some headwords added in margin by various hands, mostly (if not entirely) restricted to the first 74 folios

Seals: ff. 1r and 550v

Custodial History:

Two illegible seals, the upper one with the word Khān (خان) legible;
Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Mīr Kurrah (محمد مصطفى مير كرة): his seal, dated 1170/1756-57 (f. 1r);
Richard Johnson (1753-1807), Assistant to the Resident in Lucknow (1780-82), Resident in Hyderabad (1784-85): his inscription in Persian, undated (f. 1r, above and to left of East India Company seals);
Seal of the East India Company (ff. 1r and 550v).

Source of Acquisition:

From the library of Richard Johnson (1753-1807), incorporated into the collection of the East India House in 1807

Finding Aids:

Loth, Otto, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office (London : Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1877), Item 790, p. 230

Publications:

Editions:

Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, al-Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah (Bayrūt: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmīyah, 1992)
Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Kitāb al-Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah ([Būlāq]: al-Maṭbaʿah al-ʿāmirah, 1291 [1874]; reprinted in series Manshūrat Maʻhad Tarīkh al-ʻUlūm al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Islamīyah, al-Ṭibb al-Islamī; 69, 70 [Frankfurt am Main : Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1996])
Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Tanqīḥ mufradāt Ibn al-Bayṭār al-ʿashshāb al-Mālaqī min kitābihi al-Jāmiʿ, (ed. by Muḥammad al-ʿArabī al-Khaṭṭābī), (Bayrūt: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 1990)

Translations:

Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Grosse Zusammenstellung über die Kräfte der bekannten einfachen Heil- und Nahrungsmittel von Abu Mohammed Abdallah Ben Ahmed aus Malaga bekannt unter dem Namen Ebn Baithar, (trans. by Joseph von Sontheimer), (Stuttgart: Hallberger'sche Verlagshandlung, 1840-42)
Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Traité des simples, (trans. by Lucien Leclerc), in Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques, vols 23.1 (1877), 25.1 (1881) and 26.1 (1883) (reprinted Paris: Institut du Monde arabe, 1987)

Study:

Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 280-83

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Chief Herbalist, botanist, physician, 1197-1248

Subjects:

Medicine--Early works to 1800