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Or 12151
- Record Id:
- 032-003418874
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003418874
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062720639.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100069638096.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 12151
- Title:
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al-Mufradāt المفردات
Shāhīn ibn Jirjis شاهين بن جرجس
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on medicine and diatetics mostly composed of 115 tables (ff. 26r-141r). The work is preceded by an introduction to the tables and general medical principles. Tables of synonymous drug names are found on ff. 144r-152r. The tables at least are attributed to the otherwise unknown Shāhīn ibn Jirjis (شاهين بن جرجس, see ff. 26r and 152v). The text is dedicated to the Dānishmandid amīr ‘Alā’ al-Dīn Abū al-Shujā‘ Dhū al-Qarnayn ibn ‘Izz al-Dawlah ibn al-Amīr Ghāzī, known as the 'Power of the Commander of the Faithful (i.e. of the Caliph)' (علاء الدين أبو الشجاع ذو القرنين بن عز الدولة بن الأمير غازي عزة أمير المؤمنين, reg. 1152-62; ff. 1v, line 15-2r, line 8).
The seal and inscriptions of the same Yūsuf Ṣayfī who owned this manuscript are also found in MSS Or. 12142, 12143, 12146, 12149, 12150, 12153, 12154, 12155, 12156 and 12157. Yūsuf Ṣayfī was a Christian: in an inscription dated 1258/1842-3 he states that he is Orthodox (Or. 12146, f.1r), while in an inscription dated [12]62/1845-6 (the same year he acquired the present manuscript) he states that he is Catholic (Or. 12143, f.1r).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
إن أول ما افتتح به الخطاب وأجمل ما ابتدئ به
الكتاب التعظيم لله والتنوية بأسمائه
والشكر لآلائه والحمد على نعمائه ...
Colophon (f. 152v, lines 1-3):
تم المجلد
المبارك الموسوم بالمعلم
شاهين المذكور
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003418874
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003418874
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iv+152+v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100062720639.0x000001
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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: Western laid paper
Dimensions: 200 x 130 mm leaf [160 x 85 mm text frames]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; the tables on ff. 26v-141v, which comprise an opening each, are numbered in red and green ink in the upper edge corners of versos
Ruling: Misṭarah; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 14 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Yūsuf Ṣayfī (يوسف صيفي, see f. 152v, lines 1-5)
Ink: Black ink, with headings and punctuation in red and green (some gold on first opening, ff. 1v-2r); and black red, green and blue in tables (ff. 26v-141v)
Decoration: All folios with text are framed in red ink (2v-19r, first opening ff. 1v-2r in black and gold);
Binding: British Museum half-leather binding
Condition: Minor tide marks at tail towards front of volume, some stains and smudges, all folios guarded
Marginalia: Very few
Seals: ff. 1r and 152v
- Custodial History:
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- Yūsuf Ṣayfī (يوسف صيفي): his seal with date 1260/1844-5, and his inscription without date (f. 1r);
- Yūsuf Ṣayfī (يوسف صيفي): his seal with date 1260/1844-5, and his inscription with date 10 Jumādá I 1262/6 May 1846 (152v).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)