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Or 5916
- Record Id:
- 032-003385315
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003385315
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100049747259.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066844153.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5916
- Title:
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Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn تذكرة الكحّالين
Kaḥḥāl, ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá كحّال، علي بن عيسى
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on diseases of the eye by ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá al-Kaḥḥāl (علي بن عيسى الكحّال; fl. first half of 11th century), the leading oculist of his time at the Abbasid capital, Baghdad.
The copy was completed on Tuesday 3 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 894/29 September 1489 at Sāveh (الساوة, Iran) by Aḥmad ibn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Awīb (?) (أحمد بن نظام الدين الأويب [؟], see colophon, f. 197v, lines 3-9, transcribed below).
The text is divided into three books (مقالات):
- Book One (المقالة الأولى, ff. 1v-20r);
- Book Two, in which I discuss perceptible eye diseases (المقالة الثاني أذكر فيها أمراض العين الظاهرة للحسّ, ff. 20v-150r);
- Book Three, in which I mention imperceptible eye diseases (المقالة الثالثة أذكر فيها أمراض العين الخفية عن الحسّ, ff. 150v-197v).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على محمد وآله
أجمـ[ـعين] رسالة يتضمن الكلام في رسالة الشيخ
العالم [علـ]ـي بن عيسى الكحال جوابًا عن ما سأله
بعض إخوانه في معرفة أمراض العين ...
Ends (ff. 197r, line 10-197v, line 2):
... وأنا
أسئلك أعزك الله إذا قرأته أن تتأمل جيدًا
أو قرأه بعض إخوانك فإنني استعملت في تأليفه
وجمعه قضاء حاجتك فإن كان فيه زللًا تصلحه
بعض أن تنعم النظر فيه وأن تجعل مكافاتي على ذلك
الدعاء إن شاء الله تعالى ...
Colophon (f. 197v, lines 2-10):
... وقد فرغ منه
يوم الثلثاء ثالث شهر ذي قعدة
الحرام سنة أربع وتسعين
وثمانمائة في البقعة الشريفة
الساوة حميت عن الآفة
على يد العبد الكئيب
أحمد بن نظام الدين
الأويب (؟)
غفرهما
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003385315
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003385315
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+198+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100049747259.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1489
- End Date:
- 1489
- Date Range:
- 3 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 894
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 173 x 125 mm leaf [100 x 70 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 14 lines per page; vertical spacing 14 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Aḥmad ibn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Awīb (?) (أحمد بن نظام الدين الأويب [؟], see colophon, f. 197v, lines 8-9)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: First opening (ff. 1v-2r) has text frames in green and black ink
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Ff. 1, 2, 39, 197, and 198 mutilated and repaired
Marginalia: Very few
Seals: None
- Custodial History:
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- Yūsuf ibn Darwīsh Aḥmad al-Mutaṭabib al-Adirnawī (يوسف بن درويش أحمد المتطبب الأدرنوي): his inscription, without date (f. 1r)
- Muḥammad (محمد, rest of name illegible): his partially-legible inscription, with date late Shawwāl 1162/early October 1749 (f. 1r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from David Fetto, 30 June 1901
- Administrative Context:
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Sāveh (الساوة, Iran)
- 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 90, p. 85
- Publications:
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Edition:
- Kaḥḥāl, ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá, Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn, ed. by Ghawth Muḥyī ʼal-Dīn al-Qādirī al-Sharafī (Ḥaydar’ābād: Maṭbūʻāt Dāírat ʼal-Maʻārif ʼal-ʻUthmānīyah, 1964)
Translations:
- Kaḥḥāl, ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá, Erinnerungsbuch für Augenärzte, trans. by Julius Hirschberg and Julius Lippert, in Die arabischen Augenärzte nach den Quellen, vol. 1, ed. by J. Hirschberg, J. Lippert, and E. Mittwoch (Leipzig: Veit & Co., 1904)
- Kaḥḥāl, ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá, Memorandum book of a tenth-century oculist for the use of modern ophthalmologists: a translation of the Tadhkirat of Ali ibn Isa of Baghdad (cir. 940-1010 A.D.), the most complete, practical and original of all the early textbooks on the eye and its diseases: the first edition in English, trans. by Casey A. Wood (Chicago: Northwestern University, 1936)
Study:
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 208-09
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)