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Or 1348
- Record Id:
- 032-003389369
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003389369
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100050902515.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066114013.0x000002
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- Or 1348
- Title:
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Kitāb al-uṣūl fī sharḥ al-fuṣūl كتاب الأصول في شرح الفصول
Ibn al-Quff, Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq ابن القف ,أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق
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Commentary by Amīn al-Daulah Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff (أمين الدولة أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق بن القف, d. 1286) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC).
Folio 1 has been bound into the volume upside down.
The copy was completed on Friday 6 Shawwāl 787/10 November 1385 by Khalīl ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Sulaymān (خليل ابن عبد الله بن سليمان), who copied the text for his own use (f. 178v, lines 32-35, see colophon, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):قال الشيخ الفاضل أبو الفرج بن يعقوب المسيحي الملكي المتطبب المعروف بابن القف
الحمد لله خالق الخلق ومبدئه وباسط الرزق ومنيه ومقدر العمر ومحصيه وموجد
المرض ومنشفيه ورضوانه على أنبيائه وأوليائه أجمعين وبعد فقد سألني بعض من
اشتغل بصناعة الطب أن أشرح له كتاب الفصول للإمام أبقراط ...
Ends (f. 178v, lines 28-31):
... وهو أن تكون
الأغذية الكثيرة المقدار بعيدة العهد بالاستعمال فيستعملوها يكونون مرضى فإن مواد هذه الأغذية إذا طال زمانها
في البدن ولم تستفرغ أوجبت أخلاطًا فاسدة وهذه الأخلاط الفاسدة لا شك أن القوى تكون معها ضعيفة
واستيصال هذه المادة وتنقية البدن منها يكون بالإسهال وذلك من أسفل والله أعلم
Colophon (f. 178v, lines 32-36):
تمت المقالة السابعة من فصول الإمام أبقراط شرح الشيخ أبو الفرج ابن القف
في يوم الجمعة المبارك سادس شهر شوال سنة سبع وثمانين وسبع مائة
أحسن الله عاقبتها
علقه لنفسه الفقير الله تعالى خليل ابن عبد الله بن سليمان المتطبب عفا الله عنهما
والحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم وحسبنا الله ونعم والوكيل
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- 032-003389369
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-003389369
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+179+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100050902515.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1385
- End Date:
- 1385
- Date Range:
- 6 Shawwāl 787
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 262 x 175 mm leaf [195 x 130 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; quire marks (mostly quinions) on ff. 9r, 19r, 29r, 50r, 59r, 69r, 78r, 88r, 98r, 108r, 116r, 125r, 135r, 163r, and 173r; after f. 164, the folios are numbered in the following order: 165, 167, 166, 169, 168, 170 after which the normal order resumes
Ruling: No ruling visible; average 42 lines per page; average vertical spacing 23 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Khalīl ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Sulaymān (خليل ابن عبد الله بن سليمان, f. 178v, line 35)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: Illuminated title page (f. 1r)
Binding: Red, leather British Museum binding, with blind-tooled medallion and corner-pieces
Condition: Minor tidemarks towards head and tail
Marginalia: Numerous by many hands
Seals: None
- Custodial History:
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- Semi-legible owner's inscription, without date (f. 178v, beneath colophon);
- Aḥmad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Ḥarīrī (?) al-Ḥanafī (?) al-Mutaṭabib (أحمد بن إسماعيل الحريري [؟] الحنفي [؟] المتطبب): his inscription, without date (f. 179r);
- Yūsuf (?) ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Mutaṭabib, ophthalmologist and surgeon at the Bīmāristān al-Nūrī, Damascus (يوسف [؟] بن عبد الله المتطبب بالكحل والجراح بدمشق بالبيمارستان النوري): his inscription, with date Dhū al-Ḥijja (year not legible) (f. 179r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Sir Charles Augustus Murray (1806-95), 12 June 1875
- 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 229, p. 193
- Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 804, pp. 545-46
- Publications:
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Edition of text commented upon:
- Hippocrates, الفصول الابقراطية The Aphorisms of Hippocrates, Translated into Arabic by Honain ben Ishak, Physician to the Caliph Motawakkul, ed. by John Tytler (Calcutta: The Education press, 1832)
Studies:
- Hamarneh, Sami Khalaf, The Physician, Therapist, and Surgeon, Ibn al-Quff (1233-1286): An Introductory Survey of his Time, Life , and Works (Cairo: Atlas Press 1974)
- Hamarneh, Sami Khalaf, 'An Arab pioneer of preventive medicine: Ibn al-Quff', Studies in History of Medicine 4 (1980) pp. 280-303
- Karimullah, Kamran, 'Transformation of Galen’s Textual Legacy from Classical to Post-Classical Islamic Medicine: Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms', Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 5.3 (2017) 311-58
- Pormann, Peter and Kamran Karimullah, 'The Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms: Introduction', Oriens: Journal of the International Society for Oriental Research 45.1-2 (2017), 1-52
- Rosenthal, Franz, '"Life Is Short, the Art Is Long": Arabic Commentaries on the First Hippocratic Aphorism', Bulletin of the History of Medicine 40, 1966, p. 226-45
- Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 31.
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 176-77
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)