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Add MS 6026
- Record Id:
- 032-003376933
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003376933
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100044433795.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100079025526.0x000002
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- Add MS 6026
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Kitāb al-ḥikmah fī al-ṭibb كتاب الحكمة في الطب
Qurashī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh قرشي، علي بن عبد الله
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Collection of prescriptions, notes on materia medica, anecdotes and poetry concerning medicine and related topics drawn from various sources. The author is said to be Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad al-Qurashī (أبو الحسن علي بن عبد الله محمد القرشي, see ff. 93v, line 13-94r, line 2). This may be meant to be the famous physician of Cairo known as Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس, d. 1288). The author's name in the present manuscript corresponds in every way to that of Ibn al-Nafīs except that where the present author has '‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad' as his father's name, Ibn al-Nafīs' father appears in his genealogy (nasab) as 'Abū al-Ḥazm' (أبو الحزم), although there is nothing to prevent the names ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad and Abū al-Ḥazm from referring to the same person.
Sources quoted, and discussed include ancient authorities (e.g. Kisrá Anūshirwān [كسرى أنوشروان] f. 10r, Hippocrates [بقراط] f. 87v, Plato [أفلاطون] f. 96r, and Aristotle [أرسطاطاليس] f. 98v), early Islamic figures (e.g. the Prophet Muḥammad [محمد رسول الله] f. 79v and Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib [علي بن أبي طالب] f. 75r), and later authors (e.g. al-Būnī [البوني] f. 2v, Avicenna [ابن سينا] f. 3r, and Ibn Maḥmūd al-Khūlānī [ابن محمود الخولاني] f. 20r). The nature of the quotation attributed to al-Būnī [البوني], suggests that the well-known sufi mystic and occultist Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī al-Būnī (أبو العباس أحمد بن علي البوني, d. ca 1225) is meant, which provides a late thirteenth-century terminus post quem for the text.
The scribe is Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-‘Ammūrī al-Mālikī (محمد بن موسى العموري المالكي; see colophon, f. 109r, lines 4-7, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-8):
فائدة من كلام البوني
اعلم إنما سميت الفاتحة بأم القرأن
لا سيما لها على جميع معانيه أصولًا وفروعًا
فكلما فيه من مدح وثناء وشكر لله سبحانه وتعالى
يندرج تحت قوله الحمد لله وكلما فيه من ذكر
الملائكة والأنبياء والمرسلين والأنس والجن
تحت قوله رب العالمين ...
Ends (f. 109r, lines 1-4):
... لا حول ولا قوة إلا
بالله العلي العظيم وصلى الله
على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليمًا كثيرًا ثم ...
Colophon (f. 109r, lines 4-15):
... وكمل على يد أفقر
العباد إلى الله تعالى محمد العموري بلدًا
المالكي مذهبًا الفقيه مجمعين محمد بن موسى الفقيه
العموري غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشائخه
ولمن كان سببًا في كتابته وأدام النفع
به والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على
من لا نبي بعده وعلى آله وصحبه
وسلم تسليمًا كثيرًا دائمًا
أبدًا إلى يوم الدين
والحمد لله رب
العالمين
تم
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
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Codex; ff. 111
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100044433795.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
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Material: Western laid paper
Dimensions: 252 x 138 mm leaf [151 x 95 mm inner border of text frame]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 13 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-‘Ammūrī al-Mālikī (محمد بن موسى العموري المالكي; see f. 109r, lines 4-7)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: Red text frames of two borders on all folios
Binding: Brown leather binding with flap; blind-tooled borders and medallion with pendants
Condition: Some grime from fingering
Marginalia: Very few
Seals: None
- Custodial History:
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- al-Amīr Yūsuf (الأمير يوسف): his inscription, dated 1178/1764-5 (f. 109r, on either side of colophon);
- Aḥmad Ḥāwish al-Majnūn (أحمد حاوش المجنون): his inscription, dated 10 (?) Rabī‘ I 852/14 (?) May 1448, but this date is untrustworthy as the inscription was certainly added after the inscription above (f. 109r, to right of colophon).
- 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 465, pp. 226
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 9, p. 6
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)