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Or 5620
- Record Id:
- 032-003394563
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003394563
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055600694.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100069626371.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5620
- Title:
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Three treatises on medicine
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
- (1) Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology (ff. 1r-59v);
- (2) Ṣubunrī (صبنري), Kitāb al-raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah (كتاب الرحمة في الطب والحكمة, ff. 60v-74v);
- (3) Manual of therapeutics (ff. 75v-308r).
The colophon at the end of the third text, claims that the manuscript from which the text was copied was completed on Tuesday 21 Ṣafar 1114/18 July 1702 (f. 307v, lines 2-9). The present manuscript must therefore have been copied after this date.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003394563
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Or 5620, ff 1r-59v : Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology
Or 5620, ff 60v-74v : Kitāb al-raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah كتاب الرحمة في الطب والحكمة[Ṣubunrī, Mahdī…
Or 5620, ff 75v-308r : Manual of therapeutics
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- 032-003394563
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 5620
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+308+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100055600694.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 220 x 125 mm leaf [135 x 75 mm written]
Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink visible on some folios (not on ff. 56r-76r; begins again from 1 at f. 76v; errors in foliation and corrections from f. 104r to end of volume), British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: None
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Defective at beginning, ff. 1-2 mutilated and repaired with no loss of text, tidemarks at head especially towards front of volume
Marginalia: Few by more than one hand overall, but see especially ff. 57r-59v
Seals: F. 1r
- Custodial History:
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- Mi‘mārzādah Ḥusayn al-Anṣārī (معمارزاده حسين الأنصاري): his inscription recording the purchase of the manuscript, dated 1301/1883-4 (f. 1r);
- Ḥusayn al-Anṣārī (حسين الأنصاري): his waqfīyah seal, with date 1309/1891-2 (f. 1r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from J.J. Naaman, 11 July 1899
- 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. 46-7
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 64, p. 55; Item 296, p. 221; Item 23, p. 251; and Item 32, p. 253
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)