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Add MS 5931
- Record Id:
- 032-003314642
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003314642
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100032176486.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100052709121.0x000002
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 5931
- Title:
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Two medical texts
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript was produced in Egypt as confirmed by the use in the colophon (f. 184v, lines 7-8, transcribed below) of the Coptic date alongside the hijrī year. The copy was completed on 28 Hatūr 1393 (of the Coptic era)/28 Ramaḍān 1087/4 December 1676. A small note below the colophon gives the subsequent (collation?) date 18 Ṭūbah [1394] (of the Coptic era)/[29] Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1088/23 January 1678.
The manuscript was probably collected by the Scottish surgeon and naturalist Patrick Russell (1726-1805) during his service as physician to the Levant Company factory in Aleppo (1753-71). While in Aleppo, Russell studied the outbreaks of plague in 1760-62, so may have been interested in the recipe (f. 1r) for pills (حبوب), five of which were to be taken in the morning, before breakfast, during plague season (في أيام الوباء). This recipe is said to have been received from Ibn al-Ḥākhām ('son of the Rabbi') Mūsá on 7 Rajab 1138/11 March 1726 (see Custodial History).
Contents:
- (1) al-‘Aynzarbī (العينزربي), al-Kāfī fī ṣinā‘at al-ṭibb (الكافي في صناعة الطب; ff. 2r-172v);
- (2) al-Qawṣūnī (القوصوني), Zād al-masīr fī ʿilāj al-bawāsīr (زاد المسير في علاج البواسير; ff. 173r-185r).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
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Codex; ff. iii+185+iv
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- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100032176486.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1676
- End Date:
- 1676
- Date Range:
- 28 Ramaḍān 1087
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Western laid paper, with Tre lune watermark
Dimensions: 209 x 150 mm leaf [140 x 95 mm written]
Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink, British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 16 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Binding: Red leather binding, with stamped medallion, pendants corner and edge pieces; marbled doublures and recto-side of first front and end flyleaves
Condition: Minor water damage to lower, outer corner towards front and end of volume
Marginalia: Few; most (all?) by hand of scribe
Seals: None
- Custodial History:
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- Ibrāhīm Efendī Murād al-Ḥanafī (إبراهيم أفندي مراد الحنفي): his inscription, without date (f. 1r);
- Medical recipe apparently in hand of Ibrāhīm Efendī Murād al-Ḥanafī (إبراهيم أفندي مراد الحنفي), dated 7 Rajab 1138/11 March 1726 (f. 1r);
- Yūsuf wuld Jirgī wuld Buṭrus Dīyah (?) al-Ṭabīb (يوسف ولد جرجي ولد بطرس ديه [؟] الطبيب): his inscription, dated 15 Aylūl (September) 1756 (f. 1r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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From the legacy of Patrick Russell (1726-1805), surgeon and naturalist
- Administrative Context:
- Egypt
- Finding Aids:
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- Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 453, p. 223
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 153 and 309, pp. 129-31 and 229
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Studies:
- Hawgood, BJ, 'The life and viper of Dr Patrick Russell MD FRS (1727–1805): Physician and naturalist', Toxicon: official journal of the International Society on Toxinology 32.11 (1994), pp. 1295–304
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 161 and 180-81
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)