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Arundel Or 35
- Record Id:
- 032-003464776
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003464776
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100088053813.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100100864158.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel Or 35
- Title:
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Sharḥ al-asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt شرح الأسباب والعلامات
Nafīs ibn ʿIwaḍ نفيس بن عوض
- Scope & Content:
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A copy, incomplete at the beginning, of a commentary by Nafīs ibn ʿIwaḍ al-Kirmānī (نفيس بن عوض الكرماني; d. approximately 1449) on Causes and Indications (الأسباب والعلامات; see Or. 5687), a medical reference work on the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of diseases compiled by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222).
Al-Kirmānī completed this commentary in 827/1424 and dedicated it to his Timurid patron Ulugh Beg (ألغ بيك, d. 1449), governor of Samarqand from 812-853/1409-1449 (see f. 346r, lines 20-22, transcribed below).
The present copy was completed in late Shawwāl 981/January-February 1574, by the scribe Aḥmad ibn Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥijāzī (أحمد بن بدر الدين الحجازي; see colophon, f. 346r, lines 18-19, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-3):
من استيلاء الجفاف عليه بسبب تسخين الروح والأبخرة المتصاعدة إليه من
سائر البدن وتسخين تلك الحركات الدائمة فلما انحلت من الدماغ أشتدّ تأثير
الحرارة فيه...
Ends (f. 346r, lines 20-22):
وقد قال الشارح بعد اتمام شرحه تم بعون الله وحسن توفيقه في أواخر صفر ختم بالخير والظفر سنة سبع وعشرين
وثمانمائة والحمد لله بجميع محامده ما علمنا منه وما لم نعلم والصلوة والسلام على رسوله أفضل من جرى برسالة القلم
وعلى آله وأصحابه وفقراء أمته
Colophon (f. 346r, lines 18-19):
...تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب على يد الفقير أحمد
بن بدر الدين الحجازي في أواخر شوال سنة إحدى وثمانين وتسعمائة
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003464776
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-003464776
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+346+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100088053813.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1574
- End Date:
- 1574
- Date Range:
- Shawwāl 981
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 230 x 137 mm leaf [150 x 82 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 22 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is Aḥmad ibn Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥijāzī (أحمد بن بدر الدين الحجازي; see f. 346r, lines 18-19)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings; text commented upon overlined in red
Decoration: Text areas set within gold and blue ruled frames
Binding: British Museum maroon half-leather binding, both covers gilt tooled with coat of arms and legend 'Bibliotheca Arundeliana'
Condition: Minor insect damage, repaired with gauze in places; first and last folios soiled and fragile
Marginalia: Very few
Seals: British Museum stamp (ff. 1r and 346v)
- Custodial History:
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- The Royal Society, London: its book-plate with the pencil inscription 'Plut. CCXVII D'.
- Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
- 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 594, pp. 224
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 185 , p. 160.
- Publications:
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Edition
- Nafīs ibn ʿIwaḍ, al-Kirmānī, Sharḥ al-Asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt maʿ ḥāshiyathi al-jadīdah al-musammah bi-Ḥall al-muʿḍalāt, ed. Muḥammad Ṣādiq ‘Alī Lakhnawī; commentary by Sayyid, Ḥakīm Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, 2 vols (Lakhnaw: publisher unknown, 1904-1905)
Study
Schlein, Deborah, 'In the Ḥakīm’s Own Hand: A Study of Colophons and Ownership Notes of the al-Asbāb wa-l-ʿalāmāt Commentary Tradition in India', Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 9 (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 264-71
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)