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Or 12150
- Record Id:
- 032-003463245
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003463245
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100086326232.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100128925676.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 12150
- Title:
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Two treatises on medicine
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
(1) Ibn al-Masīḥī (ابن المسيحي), Kitāb al-iqtiḍāb al-majmūʿ ʿalá ṭarīq al-masʾalah wa-l-jawāb ( كتاب الاقتضاب المجموع على طريق المسألة والجواب, ff. 2v-57v);
(2) Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Dakhwār (مهذب الدين الدخوار), Sharḥ Kitāb Taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ (شرح كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لأبقراط, ff. 58r-139v).
This volume was previously owned by a Lebanese Maronite Christian, Yūsuf al-Ṣayfī (يوسف الصيفي, d. after 1847). The British Library holds a number of other manuscripts from the al-Ṣayfī collection (see record for Or 12151) and at least 40 others are housed in the Special Collections of the University of Leeds, having been acquired around 1957. Many of these were written in al-Ṣayfī's own hand (e.g. Leeds MSS Arabic 72 and 105) or that of his brother Anṭūn (Leeds MS Arabic 271; see Young, M. J. L., 'Arabic and Turkish Manuscripts in the Leeds Oriental Manuscript Collection', Bulletin [British Society for Middle Eastern Studies], 7 [1980], pp. 123-31).
The binding features a stamped central cross, typical of the Christian community in Lebanon.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003463245
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Or 12150, ff 2v-57v : Kitāb al-iqtiḍāb al-majmūʿ ʿalā ṭarīq al-masʾalah wa-l-jawāb كتاب الاقتضاب المجموع…
Or 12150, ff 58r-139v : Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Dakhwār, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʻAlī مهذب الدين الدخوار، عبد الرحيم…
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- 032-003463245
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+140
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100086326232.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1775
- End Date:
- 1807
- Date Range:
- late 18th-early 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Thick Western laid paper
Dimensions: 222 x 158mm leaf [169 x 114mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 16 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings; red ink speckles on head, tail and fore edge
Decoration: None
Binding: Black leather binding with stamped corners, frame, and floral central motif in the shape of a cross
Condition: Occasional smudges and stains, some corners torn and repaired at beginning of volume
Marginalia: Very few
Seals: British Museum stamp (ff. 2r and 140r)
- Custodial History:
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- Anṭūn al-Ṣayfī (أنطون الصيفي): his ownership note with date June 1904 (f. 2r)
- Yūsuf al-Ṣayfī (يوسف الصيفي): his ownership inscription, without date (ff. 2r and 139v): as number 27
- Yūsuf Khayr (يوسف خير), the volume's scribe: his cancelled note recording that the volume was transferred into his care (إلى ذمة كاتبه) in 1834 [?] (f. 2r)
- Bishārah Maqsūd (?) بشارة مقصود (؟): his cancelled note recording that the volume was transferred into his care following the death of his brother Yūsuf on 12 Ṣafar 1222/21 April 1807 (f. 2r)
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Mrs A. M. Sefi, 28 May 1957
- 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), Items 8 and 166, pp. 5-6 and 145
- Publications:
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al-Ṣayfī manuscripts at the University of Leeds:
- MacDonald, John, Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts, University of Leeds Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures, vols. I-VIII (1958). Entries for Ṣayfī manuscripts are found in volumes II-IV, VI-VII.
- Young, M. J. L., 'Arabic and Turkish Manuscripts in the Leeds Oriental Manuscript Collection', Bulletin (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies), 7 (1980), pp. 123-31
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)