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Or 9007
- Record Id:
- 032-003463243
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003463243
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100086325687.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108801718.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 9007
- Title:
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Anonymous compendium of medicine
- Scope & Content:
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Volume one of an anonymous treatise on medicine written after Ibn Sīnā's (ابن سينا, d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب), which it cites frequently along with writings from the corpus attributed to Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC), especially the Aphorisms (الفصول).
The manuscript is defective at the beginning, missing the beginning of chapter (مقالة) one The folios have been bound out of order and some are evidently missing. Although the manuscript has no Arabic foliation that can be used to establish the original order of folios, a number of other features could help with this. Two separate sequences of foliation in Coptic numerals can be seen in the edge or head margins of versos and run for the most part in the opposite direction to the sequence of the modern foliation. Quire signatures in Arabic are visible in places, sometimes with indications of the number of folios (قائمة) in the gathering: quire 8 (f. 27r), quire 9 (37r), quire 23 of 12 folios (f. 79r), quire 22 of 12 folios (f. 96r), quire 12? (f. 103r), and quire 21 of 10 folios (f. 132r). Catchwords are found on ff. 26v, 36v, 86v, 96v, 99v and 122v.
This volume of the text is divided into seven chapters (مقالات) each subdivided into sections (فصول) with an eighth chapter announced at the end of the volume. The table below lists the starting and ending folios, when known, of the surviving chapters and sections. Since the folios are out of order, these starting and ending folios are not meant to represent folio ranges, and on closer analysis of the text some sections may need to be reassigned to other chapters in cases where chapter headings containing section titles do not survive in full (chapters 1, 2 and 4). When the number of sections in a given chapter is stated in the surviving chapter heading, this has been put in rounded brackets; when the number of sections has been determined or estimated by the surviving sections, this has been put in square brackets. When the chapter title is unknown and has been surmised on the basis of the surviving sections or when words have been added to the translation of the title for clarity, these have been put in square brackets:
[Chapter One: Anatomy, 42 sections] ([المقالة الأولى في التشريح], defective at beginning, ends f. 55v)
- Section 13 (starts f. 5v, ends f. 6r);
- Section 14 (starts f. 6r, ends f. 2v);
- Section 15 (starts f. 2v, ends f. 8r);
- Section 16 (starts f. 8r, ends f. 10r);
- Section 17 (starts f. 10r, ends f. 13r);
- Section 18 (starts f. 13r, ends f. 14v);
- Section 19 (starts f. 14v, ends f. 16v);
- Section 20 (starts f. 16v, ends f. 18r);
- Section 21 (starts f. 18r);
- Section 23 (starts f. 21v, ends f. 23v);
- Section 24 (starts f. 23v, ends f. 25r);
- Section 25 (starts f. 25r, ends f. 26v);
- Section 26 (starts f. 26v, ends f. 28v);
- Section 27 (starts f. 28v, ends f. 29v);
- Section 28 (starts f. 29v, ends f. 31r);
- Section 29 (starts f. 31r, ends f. 32v);
- Section 30 (starts f. 32v, ends f. 33v);
- Section 31 (starts f. 33v, ends f. 34r);
- Section 32 (f. 34r);
- Section 33 (starts f. 34r, ends f. 35r);
- Section 34 (starts f. 35r, ends f. 36r);
- Section 35 (starts f. 36r, ends f. 41v);
- Section 36 (starts f. 41v, ends f. 42v);
- Section 37 (starts f. 42v, ends f. 45r);
- Section 38 (starts f. 45r, ends f. 45v);
- Section 39 (starts f. 45v, ends f. 53v);
- Section 40 (starts f. 53v, ends f. 54r);
- Section 41 (starts f. 54r, ends f. 55v);
- Section 42 (f. 55v);
Chapter Two: Causes (21 sections) (المقالة الثنية في الأسباب, starts f. 55v, ends f. 57v);
- Section 1 (starts f. 55v, ends f. 69r);
- Section 2 (starts f. 69r, ends f. 72r);
- Section 3 (starts f. 72r, ends f. 73v);
- Section 4 (starts f. 73v, ends f. 74r);
- Section 5 (starts f. 74r);
- Section 8? (starts f. 56r);
- Section 21 (starts f. 57r);
Chapter Three: [Ailments] Adherent [to Specific Parts of the Body] (14 sections) (المقالة الثالثة في اللوازم, starts f. 57v);
- Section 1 (starts f. 57v);
- Section 4 (starts f. 59v, ends f. 60v);
- Section 5 (starts f. 60v);
[Chapter Four: Prognosis] [35? sections] ([المقالة الرابعة في تقدمة المعرفة], ends f. 101v);
- Section 3 (starts f. 80r);
- Section 9 (starts f. 63r, ends f. 61v);
- Section 10 (starts f. 61v, ends f. 67r);
- Section 11 (starts f. 67r, ends f. 68r);
- Section 12 (starts f. 68r, ends f. 102v);
- Section 13 (starts f. 102v, ends f. 64r);
- Section 14 (f. 64r);
- Section 15 (starts f. 64r, ends f. 103v);
- Section 16 (starts f. 103v, ends f. 105r);
- Section 17 (starts f. 105r, ends f. 105v);
- Section 18 (starts f. 105v, ends f. 107v);
- Section 19 (starts f. 107v, ends f. 109v);
- Section 20 (starts f. 109v, ends f. 110v);
- Section 21 (starts f. 110v, ends f. 112r);
- Section 22 (starts f. 112r, ends f. 116v);
- Section 23 (starts f. 116v, ends f. 117r);
- Section 24 (starts f. 117r, ends f. 118r);
- Section 25 (starts f. 118r, ends f. 119v);
- Section 26 (starts f. 119v, ends f. 121v);
- Section 27 (starts f. 121v, ends f. 123r);
- Section 28 (starts f. 123r, ends f. 125r);
- Section 29 (starts f. 125r, ends f. 126r);
- Section 30 (starts f. 126r, ends f. 126v);
- Section 31 (starts f. 126v, ends f. 128r);
- Section 32 (starts f. 128r, ends f. 130r);
- Section 33 (starts f. 130r, ends f. 131r);
- Section 34 (starts f. 131r, ends f. 132r);
- Section 35 (starts f. 132r, ends f. 101v?);
Chapter Five: Ailments Occurring on the Surface of the Body, Which Are Swellings and Other Things (7 sections) (المقالة الخامسة في أمراض التي تحدث في سطح البدن وهي الأورام وغيرها , starts f. 101v, ends f. 89v);
- Section 1 (starts f. 101v, ends f. 77r);
- Section 2 (starts f. 77r, ends f. 87v);
- Section 3 (starts f. 87v, ends f. 82r);
- Section 4 (starts f. 82r, ends f. 83r);
- Section 5 (starts f. 83r);
- Section 7 (starts f. 89r, ends f. 89v);
Chapter Six: Fevers (6 sections) (المقالة السادسة في الحميات, starts f. 89v, ends f. 94r);
- Section 1 (starts f. 75r, ends f. 78v);
- Section 2 (starts f. 78v);
Chapter Seven: Poisons (6 sections) (المقالة السابعة في السموم, starts f. 94r, ends 134r);
- Section 1 (starts f. 94r, ends f. 95r);
- Section 2 (starts f. 95v);
- Section 6 (starts f. 133r, ends f. 134r);
Chapter Eight: Ailments of the Psychological Faculties (or of the Respiratory Organs) (المقالة الثامنة في أمراض آلات النفسانية, announced at the end of this volume as the first chapter in the following volume, f. 134r, lines 8-9, transcribed below).
The copy was completed on Thursday 17 Tammūz 1646 Seleucid Era/27 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 735/19 July 1335 in the region of Famagusta (بناحية الماغوصة), Cyprus by the Christian physician Sulayman ibn Abī al-Barakāt ibn Abī Naṣr ibn Marqūs (سليمن بن أبي البركات بن أبي نصر بن مرقوس المسيحي المتطبب, see colophon, f. 134r in gutter margin, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-3):
المواضع المتصبة كالمراقي والوقوف في المواضع المحدبة والثانية فإن أخمص القدم
لو كان ممتليًا الحما لما يأتي ذلك ألا ترى أن الحفاف إذا كانت جديد ولم يشكل بشكل
القدم تعدد الصعود فيها إلى المواضع المذكورة ...
Ends (f. 134r, lines 5-7):
... وتنفذ قوتها
إلى القلب يكون نكايتها أبلغ والأمزجة الباردة بالعكس
فهذا ما أردنا أن نذكره في أمر السموم والله أعلم وأحكم
Colophon (f. 134r, lines 8-17 and continued in gutter margin):
تمت المقالة السابعة في السموم ويتلوها المقالة الثامنة
في أمراض آلات النفسانية والكاتب المسكين يسئل من
واهب الجود والرحمة والعفو عن ما مضا والصلح عن الزلل
ويسامح القارئ بالزلل
والموليين لمعضوم من الزلل
والشكر لمن يدوم
له النعم
إلى
الأ
بد
نقله من أول إلى آخره أضعف عباد الله تعالى
سليمن بن أبي البركات بن أبي نصر بن مرقوس المسيحي
المتطبب وذلك في يوم الأربعاء سابع عشر تموز
من سنة ست وأربعين وستمائة وألف يونانية
وا(!) وافق ذلك سابع عشرين شهر ذي القعدة من سنة
خمس وثلثين وسبعمائة لجزيرة لمحروسة (!) قبرس
بناحية الماغوصة عمرها الله تعالى
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003463243", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 9007: Anonymous compendium of medicine" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003463243
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003463243
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+134+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100086325687.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1335
- End Date:
- 1335
- Date Range:
- 27 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 735
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 247 x 170 mm leaf [170 x 110 mm written]
Foliation: Coptic foliation in black ink in head and edge margins of versos; British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Sulayman ibn Abī al-Barakāt ibn Abī Naṣr ibn Marqūs (سليمن بن أبي البركات بن أبي نصر بن مرقوس, see f. 134r in gutter margin)
Ink: Brown ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: None
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Edge corners and head and tail margins mutilated and repaired towards beginning and end of volume, tidemarks at head and tail margins, minor insect damage repaired in places, folios bound out of order, some folios missing
Marginalia: Moderate amount by more than one hand
Seals: None
- Custodial History:
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Ibn Yūḥannā al-Mutaṭabbib (ابن يوحنا المتطبب): his ownership inscription without date; his nisba has been overwritten to read al-Lādhiqī (اللاذقي), but appears originally to have been al-Mukarramī (المكرمي, f. 134r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Isaac Benjamin Shlomo Ezekiel Yahuda (bookdealer at Cairo and brother of Abraham Shalom Yahuda, d. 1951), 8 October 1921
- Administrative Context:
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The region of Famagusta (بناحية الماغوصة), Cyprus
- 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 33, p. 253
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)