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Record Id:

032-003380177

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032-003380177

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Reference (shelfmark):

Or 9128

Title:

Kitāb al-taysīr fī al-mudāwāt wa-al-tadbīr كتاب التيسير في المداواة والتدبير

Ibn Zuhr, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʻAlāʼ ابن زهر، عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء

Scope & Content:

Medical compendium on drug therapy, dietetics and pharmacopoeia by the Andalusian physician Abū Marwān ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Abī al-‘Alā’ Zuhr (أبو مروان عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء زهر, d. 1162), known as Ibn Zuhr (ابن زهر), Latinised as Avenzoar.

The text is divided into three sections (أجزاء) or books (أسفار):

Book One (السفر الأول, ff. 1r-115r);
Section Two (الجزء الثاني, ff. 117r-211r);
Section Three (الجزء الثالث, ff. 211v-234r).

The last page (f. 234r) has been replaced by a much later hand.

Begins (f. 1r, lines 4-5):

كتاب التيسير في المداواة والتدبير

قال عبد الملك بن زهر الحمد لله ...

Ends (f. 234r, lines 3-7):

وجعلت هذا الجزء لكتابي هذا كالختم وجعلت هذا

القانون الكلي والطريق السهل ختمًا أيضًا فإن يكن

أمانة بتوفيق الله تعلى (!) وإن يكن تقصير فقد اجتهدت

والله تعلى (!) شاهدي وهو سبحانه ينفع بكتابي ويعلي

أمرك وذكرك بمنه والسلام ...

Colophon (f. 234r, lines 7-8):

... تم الكتاب بحمد الله وحسن

عونه وصلى الله على سيدنا ومولانا محمد

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+234+ii

Digitised Content:

https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100048155982.0x000001

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 234 x 171 mm leaf [197 x 130 mm written]

Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink (begins at 1 at beginning of each section [جزء]: ff. 1r, 117r and 212r); British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: No ruling visible; 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm

Script: Maghribī

Ink: Black ink, with some marginal headings in red and green ink

Decoration: None

Binding: British Museum half-leather binding; damage to f. 155 indicates that the manuscript was previously bound in a binding with a flap

Condition: All folios guarded; some margins mutilated and repaired, worse towards front and back of volume; insect damage, some repaired with silk gauze; minor iron-gall ink corrosion, some repaired with silk gauze; f. 1r mostly illegible due to abrasion, insect damage and overlaid silk gauze; damage with loss of text on f. 155 due to iron-gall ink corrosion

Marginalia: Few by more than one hand

Seals: None

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from Ḥājjī ‘Abd al-Majīd Belshah, 10 June 1922

Administrative Context:

North Africa or Islamic Spain

Finding Aids:

Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 155, pp. 133-35

Publications:

Edition:

Ibn Zuhr, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʻAlāʾ, Kitāb al-taysīr fī al-mudāwāh wa-al-tadbīr, ed. by Mīshīl al-Khūrī (Dimashq: Dār al-Fikr, 1983)

Partial edition:

Ibn Zuhr, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ, al-Ṭibb al-ʿArabī fī al-Andalus: muqadimah li-kitāb al-taysīr fi ̄al-mudāwāh wa-al-tadbīr, ed. by Faḍīlah Bū ʿUmrān (al-Abyār, al-Jazāʼir: Thālah, 2007)

Translations:

Numerous Latin translations printed in Europe from 1490 under the title Liber Theysir or Liber Teisir
Ibn Zuhr, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʻAlāʼ, Le traité médical = Kitâb al-Taysîr, trans. by Fadila Bouamrane (Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2010)

Study:

Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 162-63

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ibn Zuhr, ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Abī al-‘Alā’, physician, d 1162

Subjects:

Medicine--Early works to 1800