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Or 8294
- Record Id:
- 032-003380344
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003380344
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100048368830.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100069825224.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 8294
- Title:
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Quwá al-adwīyah قوى الأدوية
Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣāʿid ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد
- Scope & Content:
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Handbook on the potencies of materia medica by Amīn al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id (أمين الدولة أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد) known as Ibn al-Tilmīdh (ابن التلميذ, d. 1165), chief physician at the ‘Aḍudī Hospital in Baghdad, and later court physician to the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtafī (المقتفي, reg. 1136-1160).
After an introductory section (ff. 1v-14v), materia medica are listed alphabetically and their name are given in Arabic, Persian and Syriac (in Syriac script). Some short passages are also given in Syriac (e.g. f. 178v).
Spaces have been left blank for illustrations of the materia medica described, but only the illustration of the mandrake (يبروح, f. 222v) has been completed, and that was perhaps added by a later hand.
The copy was completed at Baghdad on 15 Shawwāl 654/5 November 1256 by Ya‘īsh ibn Jaddā (?) al-Naṣrānī al-Mutaṭabib al-Arbīlī (يعيش بن جدا النصراني المتطبب الأربيلي, see colophon, f. 224r, lines 4-10, transcribed below). A note to the left of the colophon states that the collation was completed in Rajab 655/July-August 1257.
The title page (f. 1r) reads:
كتاب قوى الأدوية
المفردة التي يكثر استعمالها
في تركيبات البيمارستان مرتبة
على حروف المعجم جمعها (؟) و ألّفها السيد
الأجل الفيلسوف أمين الدولة رئيس
الحكماء أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد
رحمه الله تعالى
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
كل ما يرد على البدن مما يجري بينهما فعل وانفعال فلا يخلو
من أن يفعل في البدن أو ينفعل عنه أو ينفعل عنه ويفعل فيه
فالذي يفعل في البدن فقط هو السم المطلق ...
Ends (ff. 223v, line 10-224r, line 1):
ويستعمل اللفاح وقشور أصله
من المركبات البيمارستانية
في الأقراص المثلثة للصداع
ويستعمل قشوره في
قراص الكوكب فاعلم ذلك
Colophon (f. 224r, lines 2-10):
تم الكتاب
ولله الحمد والمنة كما هو أهله
ومستحقه وذلك بمحروسة بغداد
حرسها الله تعالى في منتصف
شهر شوال من سنة أربع وخمسين وستمائة
الهلاية العربية بعون الله تعالى
كتبه العبد الفقير إلى رحمة ربه
يعيش بن جدا النصراني المتطبب
الأربيلي
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003380344
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003380344
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+224+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100048368830.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1256
- End Date:
- 1256
- Date Range:
- 15 Shawwāl 654
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 203 x 148 mm leaf [140 x 105 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 13 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Ya‘īsh ibn Jaddā (?) al-Naṣrānī al-Mutaṭabib al-Arbīlī (يعيش بن جدا النصراني المتطبب الأربيلي, see colophon, f. 224r, lines 9-10)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: Calligraphic frontispiece framed in gold and blue ink, with title in black ink over gold, two rosettes in gold outlined in black at foot of title
Binding: Eastern binding in dark green/black leather, with blind-tooled borders, medallion and pendants, without flap
Condition: Title page (f. 1r) overlain with paper reinforcement with aperture cut for frontispiece; very minor tidemarks towards lower edge corner; very minor insect damage, some repaired; some folios mutilated towards tail margin and lower edge corner and repaired (except f. 17, where mutilated lower edge corner is not repaired)
Marginalia: Few
Seals: Ff. 1r, 224r, and 224v (all illegible)
- Custodial History:
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Mukhtār ibn Abū (!) Ṭālib (مختار بن أبو [!] طالب): his inscription, without date (f. 224).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Ḥājjī ‘Abd al-Majīd Belshah, 8 November 1919
- Administrative Context:
- Baghdad
- 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 159, pp. 139-40
- Publications:
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Study:
Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp.160-61 and 275
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)