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Delhi Arabic 1941
- Record Id:
- 032-003464779
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003464779
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100088054302.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100133883317.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Delhi Arabic 1941
- Title:
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Dustūr al-ʿajāʾib دستور العجائب
Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ʿUmar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
- Scope & Content:
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A treatise on medicine preceded by a number of sections dealing with the various subjects which should be included in the physician's education. The title appears at f. 3r, line 3. The author's name does not appear but he can be identified as Dā’ūd ibn ‘Umar al-Qaṣīr al-Anṭākī (داوود بن عمر القصير الأنطاكي; d. 1599), author of the medical encyclopaedia Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب العجاب). The treatise on medicine represents the majority of the text and is subdivided into a number of chapters (فصول) described in the introduction.
A number of diagrams are found in the chapters on mathematics and engineering (ff. 42v-73r).
All known copies of this work appear to have been written in India (see Brockelmann, Carl, History of the Arabic Written Tradition: Volume 2, trans. by Joep Lameer. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East; volume 117/2 [Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016], p. 420; Brockelmann, Carl, History of the Arabic Written Tradition: Supplement Volume 2, trans. by Joep Lameer. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East ; volume 117/S2 [Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016], p. 510-11; Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, no. 337, pp. 522-23).
Contents:
- Introduction (ff. 1v-10r);
- Grammar (في علم النحو; ff. 10r-34v);
- Natural science (العلم الطبيعي; ff. 34v-42v);
- Mathematics (علم الرياضي; ff. 42v-55v);
- Engineering (علم الهندسة; ff. 55v-73r);
- Arithmetic (في علم الحساب; ff. 73r-83r);
- Astrology (علم أحكام النجوم; ff. 83r-96r);
- Music (علم الموسيقي; ff. 96r-106v);
- Anatomy (علم التشريح; ff. 106v-118r);
- Medicine (علم الطب; ff. 118v-319r).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 1-2)
الحمد لله الذي يسبح بحمده كل ذي قلب سليم ويسبح في تيار مدحه كل ذي لب حكيم مالك الملك ذي الجلال
والإكرام...
Ends (f. 319r, line 18- f. 319v, line 3):
...وأما ساير أموره فإنه يستعان عليها بالفراسة وليكن هذا آخر
ما أردنا إيراده فلنختم حامدًا لله وحده ومصليًا على من لا نبي بعده سائلًا أن يكفينا إفراط من ينطق عن الهوى
ويجهل أن لكل أمرئا [!] نوي راجيًا أن يقع من خدام حضرته موقع القبول بلغه الله ما يتمناه من السؤل وهو حسبنا
ونعم الوكيل تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب
وحسن توفيقه
Colophon (f. 319v, lines 4-6):
حسب الإرشاد فيض باب حضرت صاحب قبله خداوند بندگان رهنماي گم شدگان تبرك بذات شريف مولوي
شريف صاحب كه چون اسم شريف خود شريف اند بنده درگاه الهي امر سنكه [؟] كميت قلم در مضماد تحرير اين دوانيده
ختم ساخت بعون الله سبحانه
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003464779
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003464779
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. vii+320+iv
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100088054302.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 301 x 174 mm leaf [210 x 115 mm written]
Foliation: India Office Library foliation stamped in black ink
Ruling: Misṭarah; 18 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm
Script: Nastaʻlīq; many scribal hands
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and keywords and overlinings in red
Decoration: None
Binding: Modern British Library archival cardboard binding reflecting the previous binding structure, including sewing stations arranged in a V-formation. Previous brown leather binding with marbled doublures and white sticker typed with ‘Delhi Arabic 1941 Arabic III C’, under same shelfmark.
Condition: Generally good; rebound. Paper is thin and fragile. Some staining, wormholes and tears.
Marginalia: Very few; marginal corrections in the scribal hands and comments in other hands. Some notes erased, see for example f. 230v.
Seals: ff. 1r and 319v
- Custodial History:
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The Government of India, its seal with central legend 'Delhi MSS' (ff. 1r and 319v)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
- Publications:
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Other copies:
- Brockelmann, Carl, History of the Arabic Written Tradition: Volume 2, trans. by Joep Lameer. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East, volume 117/2 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016), p. 420
- Brockelmann, Carl, History of the Arabic Written Tradition: Supplement Volume 2, trans. by Joep Lameer. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East, volume 117/S2 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016), pp. 510-11
- Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, no. 337, pp. 522-23
Studies:
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 181-82
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)