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Or 6419
- Record Id:
- 032-003393192
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003393192
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100054614610.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066974136.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 6419
- Title:
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Sharḥ fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ شرح فصول أبقراط
Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم
- Scope & Content:
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Commentary by ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī (علاء الدين علي بن أبي الحزم القرشي), known as Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس, d. 1288) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC).
The copy is defective at beginning, and was completed on 26 Ramaḍān 724/16 September 1324 by Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Amr (أحمد ابن عبد الرحمن ابن عمرو, see colophon, f. 98, lines 16-18, transcribed below).
The commentary is followed by notes on various subjects (ff. 99r-101v).
Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-4, defective at beginning):
بالنسبة إلى الآخر وقيل المراد أن العمر قصير بالنسبة إلى الصناعة والصناعة
طويلة في نفسها وهو ظاهر كلام جالينوس وما ذكرنا أكثر فائدة ومراده
بالوقت الزمان الذي يتمكن الإنسان من صرفه إلى الاشتغال بالصناعة وعبر
عنه بالوقت لإفراط قصره ...
Ends (f. 98, line 11-15):
... فيكون أصحاب ذلك أقوياء أي أنه
يشكوا الكلال الذي يعبر عنه بالضعف وهؤلاء لا يحتاجون إلى الإسهال
لأن ما يحتاجون إلى إخراجه من الرطوبات الرديئة إنما هو في المعدة
ونواحيها ومتى كان كذلك وجب أن يكون الاستفراغ بالقيء وهو المراد
بالاستفراغ الذي من فوق ...
Colophon (f. 98, lines 15-18):
... تم شرح الفصول
على يد أحمد ابن عبد الرحمن ابن عمرو وذلك في سادس
عشرين رمضان المبارك من سنة أربعة وعشرين
وسبعماية هجرية والحمد لله وحده
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003393192
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003393192
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+101+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100054614610.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1324
- End Date:
- 1324
- Date Range:
- 26 Ramaḍān 724
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 210 x 115 mm leaf [165 x 80 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: No ruling visible; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh, the scribe is Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Amr (أحمد ابن عبد الرحمن ابن عمرو, see colophon, f. 98, lines 16-18)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: None
Binding: British Museum half-leather binding
Condition: Defective at beginning, all folios guarded, ff. 1-7 mutilated and repaired, tidemarks at head worse towards back of volume
Marginalia: Numerous by more than one hand, see especially ff. 43v-47r, 49v-51r, 68v-71r,85v, and 87v-89r
Seals: None
- Custodial History:
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Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Amr (أحمد ابن عبد الرحمن ابن عمرو, fl. 1324), scribe of this manuscript: his ownership inscription (see below and to left-hand side of colophon, f. 98)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Edouard Yervant Hindamian (1871 [or 1877]-1958), 15 July 1902
- 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. 42
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 5, p. 4
- 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:
- 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
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 172-3
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)