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Or 11211
- Record Id:
- 032-003380071
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003380071
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100048077278.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066106459.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 11211
- Title:
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Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان
Ḥalabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم
- Scope & Content:
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Book One (الكتاب الأول) of a medical compendium on pharmacognosy by Ṣāliḥ ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (صالح بن نصر الله بن سلوم الحلبي, d. 1669), personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV (محمد رابع, reg. 1648-87). The subject of Book One is diseases and their therapies.
The copy was completed by Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad al-Ṭabīb (حافظ محمد الطبيب, see colophon, f. 236v, line 19, transcribed below). To either side of the last line of the colophon are the numerals 4 (right) and 2 (left), written in a different ink and perhaps by a different hand and possibly indicating that the copy was completed in 1124/1712-13.
Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-6):
وبعد فلما كان علم الطب بحرًا لا يدرك له قرار وتيهًأ واسعًا لا يشق له
غبار وقد دون في أصوله وفروعه الأساطين من حكماء اليونان
وأطباء الاتين ما لا يعد ولا يحصى من الأسفار ثم إن الخلف من فحول
الأطباء (!) الإسلام فصلوا تلك الأصول تفصيلًا لائقًا بالاعتناء و
الاعتبار ...
Ends (f. 236v, lines 9-15):
... صفة سفوف لذلك مشكطرا مشيع نصف أوقية
خشب الدبق أو قيتان كاردونباديتي درهم ونصف
الشربة من درهم إلى درهمين بالشراب
الأبيض يلازم على ذلك مدة ويسقي
[...]ـدرات كالفوم والاسارون
والكرفس وغير ذلك
تمت
Colophon (f. 236v, lines 19-21):
سوده الفقير إلى الله القدير حافظ محمد الطبيب
حامدًا لله تعالى ومصليًا على نبيه محمد وآله
وصحبه أجمعين
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003380071
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003380071
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+236+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100048077278.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Western laid paper, without watermark
Dimensions: 239 x 148 mm leaf [162 x 178 mm written]
Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in red ink; British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 29 lines per page; vertical spacing 18 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad al-Ṭabīb (حافظ محمد الطبيب, see colophon, f. 236v, line 19)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: Text frames in red ink on first opening (ff. 2v-3r)
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Insect damage towards back of volume causing minor loss of text
Marginalia: Very few by more than one hand
Seals: None
- Custodial History:
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Sharaf Muḥammad ‘Ishqī Beg (شرف محمد عشقي بيك): his inscription in Ottoman Turkish, with date 7 Muḥarram 1232/27 November 1816 (f. 1r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Oskar Rescher (1884-1972), 10 May 1930
- Finding Aids:
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Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 324, pp. 239-40
- Publications:
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Studies:
- Savage-Smith, Emilie, 'Drug Therapy of Eye Diseases in Seventeenth-Century Islamic Medicine: The Influence of the "New Chemistry" of the Paracelsians', Pharmacy in History 29.1 (1987), 3-28
- Shefer, Miri, 'An Ottoman Physician and His Social and Intellectual Milieu: The Case of Salih bin Nasrullah Ibn Sallum', Studia Islamica n.s. 1 (2011), 133-58
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 182-84
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1972), p. 248
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)