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Or 11615
- Record Id:
- 032-003388903
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003388903
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100050515544.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066110783.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 11615
- Title:
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Quwá al-adwiyah al-mufradah قوى الأدوية المفردة
Ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن أبي الأشعث، أحمد بن محمد
- Scope & Content:
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Volume One (الجزء الأول) of a compendium on materia medica by Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath (أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي الأشعث; d. 970).
In the preface (f. 7v), the author states that the text is divided into three treatises (مقالات), but the manuscript is defective at the end, and only the first and a large portion of the second of the three treatises announced in the preface are preserved.
Contents:
- Preface (ff. 1v-7v);
- Treatise One (المقالة الأولى, ff. 7v-85v);
- Treatise Two (المقالة الثانية, ff. 86r-190v, defective at end).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
المقالة الأولى من كتاب قوى الأدوية
المفردة على مذهب جالينوس وفيها تذكر
القوانين الكلية صنعة أبي جعفر
أحمد بن محمد المعروف بابن أبي الأشعث
Ends (f. 190v lines 18-21, defective at end):
هذا أصل و قانون عظيم المنفعة ينبغي أن يحذر منه في جميع أنواع
الأغذية وإذا كان جالينوس قال هذا القول في القثاء فكم بالجري (؟) هو
الذي يستكثر الناس من أكله في آخر الصيف ويسميه
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003388903
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003388903
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+190+iii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100050515544.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 253 x 160 mm leaf [175 x 115 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; quire numeration (quinions) visible towards gutter margin (beginning on f. 10r); quire signatures visible in upper edge corners of some folia
Ruling: Misṭarah; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Brown iron-gall ink, with some rubricated division numbers and overlinings in red especially towards back of volume
Decoration: None
Binding: British Museum half-leather binding
Condition: Edge margins of ff. 1-8 mutilated and repaired; water damage obscures the text in some places (e.g. ff. 113-116 and 179-188); f. 190 is a replacement
Marginalia: Numerous by many hands
Seals: f. 1r
- Custodial History:
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- Abū al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥalabī (?) (أبو الحسن ابن عبد الله الحلبي [؟]): his endowment statement (وقفية), without date (f. 1r);
- Ḥakīm Muḥammad Hāshim (حكيم محمد هاشم): his inscription without date, and his seal with date 1099/1687-8 (f. 1r);
- Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Mutaṭabib (محمد بن عبد العزيز المتطبب): his inscription, with date 733/1332-3 (f. 1r);
- Muḥammad Abū al-Tayyib al-Ḥanafī (محمد أبو الطيب الحنفي): his inscription, without date (f. 1r);
- [... ibn] Abī al-Sa‘ādāt ibn Abī al-Barakāt ibn al-Ḥarrāth (?) al-Mutaṭabib ([... بن] أبي السعادات بن أبي البركات بن الحراث المتطبب): his inscription, dated Dhū al-Qa‘dah 656/October-November 1258 at Mosul, recording his acquisition of the manuscript (?) "from two sons of his brother Dawūd" (من ولدي أخوه داوود; f. 1r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from S.H. Taqizadeh 10 October 1936
- 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 75, pp. 66-8
- Publications:
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Studies:
- Fulton, A. S., 'Arabic Medical Manuscripts', The British Museum Quarterly 11.2 (1937), pp. 81-83
- Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp 301-2
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medzin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 138 and 266
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)