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IO Islamic 1296

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032-003150767

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Reference (shelfmark):

IO Islamic 1296

Title:

al-Mu‘ālajah al-buqrāṭīyah المعالجة البقراطية

Ṭabarī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad طبري، أحمد بن محمد

Scope & Content:

Compendium (كناش) of medicine by Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī al-Turunjī (أبو الحسن أحمد بن محمد الطبري الترنجي), personal physician to the Buyid amīr Rukn al-Dawlah (ركن الدولة; reg. 947-76).

A table of contents by a hand other than that of the main scribe appears on ff. 1Cr-3v.

According to the final colophon, the copy was completed by Kaẓim (كاظم) in the month of Rajab during the second regnal year, but the monarch whose regnal year is intended is not mentioned (f. 659v, lines 4-7, transcribed below). More specific details are given in the colophon to Book Six, although this colophon, in Persian, appears to have been added by another, perhaps later, hand and is therefore suspect. According to the colophon to Book Six, the copying of that section was completed at the residence of Sayyid Zayn al-‘Ābidīn (سيد زين العابدين) in Shāhjahānābād (Delhi) by Muḥammad Kāẓim Kashmīrī (محمد كاظم كشميري) on Thursday 3 Sha‘bān 1117/20 November 1705 (f. 301r, lines 18-21, transcribed below). This date is somewhat difficult to reconcile with the regnal date given in the final colophon, since if we take that date to refer to the second year of the reign of Bahādur Shāh I whose reign began in 1119/1707, we get a completion date of Rajab 1121/September-October 1709, some four years after the completion of Book Six.

The text is divided into ten books (مقالات). Book One is subdivided into sections (فصول), and Books Two to Ten are subdivided into chapters (أبواب).

Contents:

Book One (المقالة الأولى; ff. 5v-48r);
Book Two (المقالة الثانية; ff. 48r-81r);
Book Three (المقالة الثالثة; ff. 82r-155v);
Book Four (المقالة الرابعة; ff. 155r-232v);
Book Five (المقالة الخامسة; ff. 233r-256r);
Book Six (المقالة السادسة; ff. 256v-301v);
Book Seven (المقالة السابعة; ff. 302v-407r);
Book Eight (المقالة الثامنة; ff. 407v-450r);
Book Nine (المقالة التاسعة; ff. 450v-550v);
Book Ten (المقالة العاشرة; ff. 550v-659v).

Begins (f. 4v, lines 2-3):

الحمد لله المتفرد بالوحدانية والقدرة والرحمة والإفاضة والجود مبدع

الكل ومشرف النفس وواهب العقل والجواد الذي لم نجل العالم قط من فيضه

Colophon to Book Six (f. 301r, lines 16-21):

تمت المقالة السادسة من الكناش المعروف بامعالجات البقراطية

والحمد لواهب العقل ومبدع الكلّ وصلواته على نبيه لمحمّد (!) وآله

كتبه فقير الحقير محمد كاظم كشميري

در خانه سيادت ونجابت دستكاه سيد زين العابدين سلمه اه در دار خلافه شاهجهان آباد

يوم چهار شنبه سيوم شعبان المعظم

باتمام رسيد سنة 1117 هجري

Ends (f. 659r, line 22-659v, line 2):

وهذا الموضع فيجب أن يتأمله الطبيب تأملًا شافيًا فإن مصقي الكنانيش فصروا في

هذا النوع وإنما يستخرج هذا من قوة كلام جالينوس ومن الأولى والأشبه من سائر

العالاجات تفقد أذلته من الأعراض و مما يجده ومتى وقع تقصير في تأمل شيء

من ذلك وقع بحسبه نقصان في المعالجة ...

Colophon (f. 659v, lines 2-7):

... تمت المقالة العاشرة من الكناش

الملقب بالمعالجات البقراطية

تمت في شهر رجب المرجب

في وقت العصر يوم

السبت سنة 2 جلوس

كتبه كاظم

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex; ff. i+661

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1117

End Date:

1121

Date Range:

1117-1121

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 286 x 165 mm leaf [205 x 100 mm written]

Foliation: India Office Library foliation stamped in pencil

Ruling: No ruling visible; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh; the scribe is Muḥammad Kāẓim Kashmīrī (محمد كاظم كشميري; see colophons, ff. 301r, line 18 and 659v, line 7)

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red; spaces left blank for rubricated headings after f. 524v

Binding: India Office binding

Condition: Minor insect damage

Marginalia: Marginal notations in many hands, some severed

Seals: ff. 1Cr and 659v

Custodial History:

East India Company Library, its seal (ff. 1Cr and 659v)

Source of Acquisition:

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

Administrative Context:

Delhi

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 773, p. 226

Publications:

Facsimile edition with English introduction:

Ṭabarī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, al-Muʿālajāt al-Buqrāṭīyah. The Hippocratic treatments (Frankfurt am Main : Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1990) 2 vols

Study:

Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 140

Study and partial translation:

Rihab, Mohamed, Der arabische Arzt Abū el-Ḥasan Aḥmed ibn Moḥamed Aṭ-Ṭabarī: Übersetzung einzelner Abschnitte aus seinen "Hippokratischen Behandlungen" (Leipzig: Universität Leipzig, 1927)

Study and partial edition:

Qalʻahjī, Muḥammad Rawwās and Muḥammad Ẓāfir al-Wafāʾī, Amrāḍ al-ʻayn wa-muʻālajātuhā min kitābay: al-Muʻālajāt al-Buqrāṭīyah. Firdaws al-ḥikmah (London: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1998)

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ṭabarī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, physician, fl 10th century

Subjects:

Medicine--Early works to 1800