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Or 6429
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- 032-003464767
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003464767
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100088051994.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100127487944.0x000002
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- Or 6429
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al-Jāmiʿ li-quwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah الجامع لقوى الأدوية والأغذية
Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ابن البيطار، عبد الله بن أحمد
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The most influential and important Arabic handbook of materia medica, written by the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad (ضياء الدين أبو محمد عبد الله بن أحمد; d. 1248), known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (ابن البيطار), Chief Herbalist (رئيس العشابين) to the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil (reg. 1218-38). The book is here called The Compendium of the Strengths of Drugs and Nutriments (الجامع لقوى الأدوية والأغذية, see f. 379r, line 7, transcribed below), but it is usually known as The Compendium of Simple Drugs and Nutriments (الجامع لقوى الأدوية والأغذية).
The first folio of the text is a replacement (f. 2).
This copy was completed on 6 Ramaḍan (no year given) by ʿUmar ibn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Abī Bakr (عمر بن يوسف بن محمد أبي بكر, see colophon, f. 379r, lines 9-11, transcribed below).
Bound into the end of the volume is one folio from the end of Chapter four and the beginning of Chapter five (begins f. 380v, line 10) of the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) attributed to Hippocrates (ca 460-370 BC).
Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-3):
الحمد لله الذي أقام بلطيف حكمته بنية الإنسان فأختصه بما علمه من بديع البيان و سخر له في الأرض
من جماد ونبات وحيوان جاعلها له أسبابًا لحفظ الصحة ...
Ends (f. 379r, lines 4-9, some text lost due to damage in gutter margin):
ينمة أبو العباس النباتي الينمة معروفة بالقيروان وهي عندهم مختبرة في
] وهي نبتة بيضاء ورقها أزغب لها ورق فيما بين ورق لسان الحمل البري
وور[ق آ]ذان الغزال إلا أنه أصغر مخرجها من ورقها في الوسط ولها ساق طولها شبر وأقل
وأكثر [في] غلظ الغرل وارق وههنا نجز العرض المقصود من الكتاب الجامع لقوى الأدوية والأغذية
[و]الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سائر النفوس القديسة المنزهات عن
]ت الأنسة (؟)
Colophon (f. 379r, lines 9-13, some text lost due to damage in gutter margin):
... تمم الكتاب بعون الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه في يوم
]ـى السادس من شهر الله المبارك المعظم رمضان أعظم الله حرمته وبركته
[أ]ضعف عباد الله وأحوجهم خادم الفقراء والمساكين عمر بن يوسف بن محمد أبي بكر
]رى رزقه الله تعالى علمًا نافعًا وعملًا متعدلًا بحق حقه
متع به صاحبه
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- 032-003464767
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- 032-003464767
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
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Codex; ff. i+380+i
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- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100088051994.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1440
- Date Range:
- Early 15th century
- Era:
- CE
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 230 x 155 mm leaf [160 x 110 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 33 lines per page; vertical spacing 21 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; ʿUmar ibn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad Abī Bakr (عمر بن يوسف بن محمد أبي بكر, see colophon, f. 379r, lines 9-11) (f. 2 is a later replacement and ff. 3-14 are by a different hand)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: None
Binding: British Museum half-leather binding
Condition: Edge and tail margins of ff. 1-9, 187, 189-190 and 377-379 damaged and repaired, gutter margins of ff. 2-3 and 377-379 damaged and repaired
Marginalia: Many, most by same hand
Seals: f. 2r, British Museum stamp on ff. 2r and 379v
- Custodial History:
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- Muḥammad Amīn al-Mawṣilī Yāsīn Afandīzādah (محمد أمين الموصلي ياسين أفندي زاده), physician (d. ca 1812, see Ruʾūf, ʿImād ʿAbd al-Salām, 'al-Adīb al-ṭabīb Muḥammad Amīn Bek Āl Yāsīn al-Muftī al-Mawṣilī' [2016]): his inscription with date 1181/1767-8 and his seal with date 1169/1755-6 (f. 2r);
- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Amīn (عبد الله ابن محمد أمين), son of Muḥammad Amīn al-Mawṣilī Yāsīn Afandīzādah (محمد أمين الموصلي ياسين أفندي زاده): his inscription without date and his seal with date 1181/1767-8 (f. 2r);
- Muḥammad Shafīʿ ibn Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Husaynī (محمد شفيع بن بهاء الدين الحسيني): his inscription dated Qazvīn, Shawwāl (year erased) and his seal without date (f. 2r);
- Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Ḥusaynī (محمد صادق الحسيني): his inscription without date and his seal with date 1114/1702-3 (f. 2r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from David Fetto, 14 October 1902
- 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. 43
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 194, pp. 169-70
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Editions of the al-Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt:
- Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, al-Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah (Bayrūt: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmīyah, 1992)
- Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Kitāb al-Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah ([Būlāq]: al-Maṭbaʿah al-ʿāmirah, 1291 [1874]; reprinted in series Manshūrat Maʻhad Tarīkh al-ʻUlūm al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Islamīyah, al-Ṭibb al-Islamī; 69, 70 [Frankfurt am Main : Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1996])
- Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Tanqīḥ mufradāt Ibn al-Bayṭār al-ʿashshāb al-Mālaqī min kitābihi al-Jāmiʿ, (ed. by Muḥammad al-ʿArabī al-Khaṭṭābī), (Bayrūt: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 1990)
Translations of the al-Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt:
- Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Grosse Zusammenstellung über die Kräfte der bekannten einfachen Heil- und Nahrungsmittel von Abu Mohammed Abdallah Ben Ahmed aus Malaga bekannt unter dem Namen Ebn Baithar, (trans. by Joseph von Sontheimer), (Stuttgart: Hallberger'sche Verlagshandlung, 1840-42)
- Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Traité des simples, (trans. by Lucien Leclerc), in Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques, vols 23.1 (1877), 25.1 (1881) and 26.1 (1883) (reprinted Paris: Institut du Monde arabe, 1987)
Edition of the Arabic version of the Aphorisms:
- Hippocrates, الفصول الابقراطية The Aphorisms of Hippocrates, Translated into Arabic by Honain ben Ishak, Physician to the Caliph Motawakkul, ed. by John Tytler (Calcutta: The Education press, 1832)
Study of Ibn al-Bayṭār:
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 280-83
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)