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Or 5618
- Record Id:
- 032-003378427
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003378427
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100046552772.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066399112.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5618
- Title:
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Kitāb mā lā yasaʿ al-ṭabīb jahluhu كتاب ما لا يسع الطبيب جهله
Kutubī, Yūsuf ibn Ismāʿīl كتبي، يوسف بن إسماعيل
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on materia medica arranged in alphabetical order by Yūsuf ibn Ismā‘īl ibn Ilyās al-Khūwaīyī al-Baghdādī al-Kutubī (يوسف بن إسماعيل بن إلياس الخويي البغدادي الكتبي, d. 1353), and based on the Comprehensive Book on Simple Drugs and Foods (جامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية) by Ibn al-Bayṭār (ابن البيطار, d. 1248, see f. 2r, line 28ff, partially mutilated).
The composition of the text was completed at Damascus on 15 Jumādá I 711/29 September 1311 (see Ullmann, 1970, p. 285, as the end of the text is mutilated in this copy, and the author's colophon is missing).
According to the title page, the scribe of this copy is Ibn al-Maylaṭ (ابن المَيلَط, see f. 1r).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله الذي لا تكتنه حقيقة معرفته العلوم والأفهام ولا يحيط بكنه
ذاته العقول والأوهام ابتدع الأجرام العلوية وزينها بأجمل مورة
Ends (f. 336r, lines 12-17, defective at end):
يلنجوج اسم عربي للعود الهندي وهو عود البخورة ...
يمام اسم للسفتين وقد ذكر في السين
ينبوت هو خرنور ...
وقد ذكر في الخاء
ينتون ...
الجبل ...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003378427
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003378427
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+336+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100046552772.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper (ff. 51-57, 70-89 and 283-304 are replacements on Western laid paper)
Dimensions: 215 x 145 mm leaf [155 x 85 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil, Eastern Arabic foliation (quire signatures?) occasionally visible in extreme upper edge corners of recto folios (e.g. ff. 30r and 121r)
Ruling: No ruling visible; 29 lines per page; vertical spacing 19 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Ibn al-Maylaṭ (ابن المَيلَط, see title page, f. 1r)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: Text frames of double borders in red on ff. 1v-3v
Binding: British Museum binding with marbled paper on both boards
Condition: Ff. 51-57, 70-89 and 283-304 are replacements on Western laid paper; all folios are mutilated towards the tail with loss of text on many folios, extensive mutilation towards tail and edge on ff. 303-336 worse towards end of volume with much loss of text
Marginalia: Annotations by many hands, see especially the long note on f. 40v
Seals: f. 1r
- Custodial History:
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- Sayyid Mūsá Ḥakīm (سيد موسى حكيم): his inscription with date 1240/1824-5 (f. 1r);
- Sayyid Mūsá Ḥakīmzādah (سيد موسى حكيم زاده): his inscription without date, and his (?) seal with date 1261/1845(f. 1r);
- Mullā Aḥmad, secretary in the dīwān of Aleppo (ملا أحمد الكاتب في ديوان حلب): his incription with date 1014/1605-6, and his seal defaced (f. 1r);
- Ḥājjī Khalīl ibn Marmūsh (حاجي خليل بن مرموش): his inscription with date Rajab 1212/December 1797-January 1798 (f. 1r);
- Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي)?, mathematician, astronomer, religious scholar, 1547-1621: his calligraphic signature (f. 1r);
- Darwīsh (درويش): his seal with date 1229/1813-4 (f. 1r);
- Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ḥamūdah al-Mawṣilī (إسماعيل بن عبد الله بن أحمد بن محمد حمودة الموصلي): his annotation relating a remedy he learned from a Turkish source (perhaps called غاية البيان), which he translated into Arabic (f. 40v).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from J.J. Naaman, 11 July 1899
- Finding Aids:
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- Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards, A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 45
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 248, pp. 200-03
- Publications:
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Studies:
- Iskandar, A.Z., A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1967), pp. 126-27
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 283 and 285
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)