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Arundel Or 14
- Record Id:
- 032-003395014
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003395014
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056123349.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100065044934.0x000002
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel Or 14
- Title:
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al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الحاوي في الطب
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
- Scope & Content:
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Parts (أجزاء) eight, nine, and ten of the Kitāb al-Ḥāwī (كتاب الحاوي, Liber continens), an encyclopaedic medical compendium by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925).
The volume comprises two separate codicological units (manuscripts):
Parts Eight and Nine (الجزء الثامن والجزء التاسع, ff. 1r-274v);
Part Ten (الجزء العاشر, ff. 275r-415v).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
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- Arundel Or 14, ff 1r-274v : al-Juz’ al-thāmin wa-al-juz’ al-tāsi‘ min al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الجزء الثامن والجزء…
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+415+iii
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- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100056123349.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 14th and 15th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 215 x 150 mm leaf [170 x 110 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; quire marks partially visible on some folia (see e.g. ff. 67r and 68r)
Ruling: Misṭarah; ff. 3v-274v: 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cm; ff. 275v-415v: 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 10 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; more than one hand, changes of scribal hand noticeable at ff. 72r, 101r, 163r, 221r, and 275r
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: None
Binding: British Museum maroon half-leather binding, both covers gilt tooled with coat of arms and legend 'Bibliotheca Arundeliana'; indications that previous bindings had envelope flaps (ff. 1, 2, and 275)
Condition: Minor insect damage, some repaired; some bleed-through of iron-gall ink
Marginalia: Few by more than one hand
Seals: None
- Custodial History:
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- al-Dimashqī (الدمشقي), rest of name unclear: his inscription, with date Friday 28 Ṣafar 884/21 May 1479 (f. 1v);
- Ismā‘īl (إسمعيل), rest of name erased: his inscription, with date 727/1326-27, rest of date erased (f. 3r);
- Inscription, mostly erased, with date 711/1311-12 (f. 3r);
- Inscription, with date 4 Rabī‘ I 884/26 May 1479 (f. 3r);
- Further owners' inscriptions erased and illegible (f. 3r);
- The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 3r);
- ‘Abd al-Wāḥid al-Yahūdī (عبد الواحد اليهودي): his inscription, without date (f. 3v);
- ‘Uthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Hishām (عثمن بن محمد بن هشام): his inscription, without date (f. 275r);
- ? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
- Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831
- Finding Aids:
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- Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 446, pp. 221
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 63, pp. 55
- Publications:
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Edition:
- Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, Kitāb al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb, ed. by ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bukhārī et al., 23 volumes in 25 (Ḥaydar Ābād al-Dakan: Maṭbaʻat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʻārif al-ʻUthmānīyah, 1958-81)
Latin translation:
- Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, Liber Helchauy. idest continens artem medicine & dicta predecesso[rum] in hac facultate conmendato[rum], ed. by Hieronymus Salius Fauentinus (Impressum Venetijs: Mandato & sumptibus Heredum Octauiani Scoti Modoetiensis per Bonetum Locatellum Bergomensem presbyterum, 1506)
Studies:
- Iskandar, A.Z., A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1967), pp. 1-26
- Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 278-80
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 130-31
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)