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Delhi Arabic 1713

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032-003309628

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Delhi Arabic 1713

Title:

al-Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb المختار في الطب

Ibn Hubal, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ابن هبل، علي بن أحمحد

Scope & Content:

Comprehensive encyclopaedia of medicine by Muhadhdhib al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Hubal al-Baghdādī (مهذب الدين أبو الحسن علي بن أحمد بن علي بن هبل البغدادي, d. 1213).

An introduction to the text in Persian and written by a later hand (16th century?) is found on f. 1v, which identifies the author as Ibn Hubal and briefly outlines the contents of the work's sections, although it claims that the work is divided into three sections (أقسام) when in fact it is divided into four volumes (مجلدات).

The copy was completed at Tabriz in Dhū al-Ḥijja 683/February 1285 by Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ (محمد بن أبي الفتح; see colophon f. 359, lines 21-22, transcribed below). The colophon to Volume Three is dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 679/April 1281 also at Tabriz (f. 243r, lines 26-27, transcribed below).

The text is defective at the beginning and starts near the beginning of the Chapter (فصل) Three of Volume (مجلد) One (ed. Ḥaydarābād, vol. 1, p. 8, line 7).

Volume One (المجلد الأول; ff. 2r-136r);
Volume Two (المجلد الثاني; ff. 136v-169v);
Volume Three (المجلد الثالث; ff. 170r-243r);
Volume Four (المجلد الرابع; ff. 243v-360v).

Begins (f. 2r, lines 1-3; defective at beginning):

من الأعضاء الآلية التي هي آلات الأفعال كاليد والرجل وغيرهما من الأعضاء ثم إنّ كل واحد من الأعضاء الآلية مركب

من أعضاء متشابهة الأجزاء كالعظام والعروق والأعصاب والرباطات وكل واحد من هذه مركب من الأخلاط

الأربعة التي هي الأمشاج

Ends (f. 360v, lines 18-20):

... وقال خروج النفس من الأنف والفم باردًا قتال جدًا إذا كان ما يتقيآه المريض أخضر ثم صـ[ـار منتنًا]

فإنه يدل على أن الموت وحي وإذا تقيأ المريض ألوانًا مختلفة رديئة فإن ذلك قاتل قال الزكام والعطاس في جميع العـ[ـلل ...]

تكون في الرئة والأضلاع فهي دلائل رديئة وما عدا ذلك فهو جيد ...

Colophon to Volume Three (f. 243r, lines 23-27):

... تم المجلد

الثالث من كتاب المختار في الطب والحمد لله وحده

وصلوته على محمد وآله الطيبين الطاهرين كتبه الضعيف

محمد بن أبي الفتح بمدينة تبريز حرسها الله في آخر ذي الحجة سنة

تسع وسبعين وستمائة رحمه الله ورحم قارئه ورحم المؤمنين آمين

Colophon (f. 359, lines 20-23):

... تم الكتاب والحم لله وحده وصلواته على خـ[ـير خلقه ...]

على يد أضعف عباد الله وأفقرهم محمد بن أبي الفتح بمدينة تبريز حرسها

الله تعالى في أوائل ذي الحجة ثلث وثمانين وستمائة رحمه الله

ورحم صاحبه وقارئه ورحم المؤمنين بفضله آمين

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex; ff. v+360+iii

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1285

End Date:

1285

Date Range:

Dhū al-Ḥijja 683

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 260 x 170 mm leaf [190 x 135 mm written]

Foliation: India Office foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah; 27 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh; the scribe is Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ (محمد بن أبي الفتح; f. 359, lines 21-22)

Ink: Black ink, with overlinings, punctuation and some chapter (فصل) numbers in red

Binding: India Office blue half-leather binding; leather covers of original boards (with gold-tooled medallion with pendants) pasted to inside of current boards; lable from original spine is pasted to front paper v recto

Condition: Extensive insect damage; many instect holes and associated tears repaired and some folios covered in silk netting; all folios guarded

Marginalia: Marginal notes in many hands

Seals: ff. 1r and 359v

Custodial History:

The Government of India, its seal with central legend 'Delhi MSS' (ff. 1r and 359v)

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876

Administrative Context:

Tabriz

Publications:

Editions:

Ibn Hubal, ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad, Kitāb al-Mukhtārāt fī al-ṭibb, 4 vols (Ḥaydarābād al-Dakkan: Maṭba‘at Jam‘iyāt Dā’irat al-Ma‘ārif al-‘Uthmānīyah, 1362-64 [1943-45]; reprinted in Ibn Hubal, ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad, Kitāb al-Mukhtārāt fi l-ṭibb, Manshūrāt Maʻhad Tārīkh al-ʻUlūm al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Islāmīyah. Ṭibb al-Islāmī64-67, 4 vols [Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University 1996])
Ibn Hubal, ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad, al-Mukhtārāt fī al-ṭibb, ed. by Hāshim al-Nadwī (Jubayl: Dār wa-Maktabat Bībilyūn, 2005)

Partial edition:

Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, Traité sur le calcul dans les reins et dans la vessie, ed. and trans. by P. de Koning (Leyde: E.J. Brill, 1896) on pp. 186-227

Partial translations:

Thies, Dorothee, Die Lehren der arabischen Mediziner Tabari und Ibn Hubal über Herz, Lunge, Gallenblase und Milz, Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte des Orients 20 (Walldorf/Hessen: Verlag für Orientkunde H. Vorndran, 1968)
Thies, Hans-Jürgen, Erkrankungen des Gehirns: inbesondere Kopfschmerzen in der arabischen Medizin, Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte des Orients 19 (Walldorf-Hessen: Verlag für Orientkunde, 1968)

Study:

Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 162

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ibn Hubal, ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad, physician, 1122-1213

Subjects:

Medicine--Early works to 1800