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Or 3131
- Record Id:
- 032-003471875
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003471875
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100092864277.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106223212.0x000002
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 3131
- Title:
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Jāmiʿ li-quwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah جامع لقوى الأدوية والأغذية
Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ابن البيطار، عبد الله بن أحمد
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Part (جزء) one (containing entries in letters ا through ز) of 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 (الملك الكامل, reg. 1218-38). The book is here called The Compendium of the Strengths of Drugs and Nutriments (الجامع لقوى الأدوية والأغذية, see title page, f. 1r, line 4), but it is also commonly known as The Compendium of Simple Drugs and Nutriments (الجامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية).
The copy was completed Thursday 15 Shawwāl 852/12 December 1448 by al-Ḥājj ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥasan al-Shalabī (الحاج علي ابن أحمد ابن حسن الشلبي, see colophon, f. 309r, lines 17-18, transcribed below).
Folios 310v contains a brief biographical sketch of Ibn al-Bayṭār.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله الذي أقام بلطيف حكمته بنية الإنسان فأختصه بما علمه من بديع
البيان و سخر له في الأرض من جماد ونبات وحيوان جعلها له أسبابًا بالحفظ
الصحة ...
Ends (f. 309r, lines 12-15):
زيزفون اسم دمشقي أولها زاي مفتوحة بعدها ياء باثنتينس من تحتها
ساكنة بعدها زاي أخرى مفتوحة ثم فاء مضمومة ثم واو ساكنة
بعدها نون اسم للنوع الذي لايثمر من شجر الغبيرا بدمشق وسيأتي
ذكر الغبيرا في حرف الغين المعجمة إن شاء الله تعالى
Colophon (f. 309r, lines 16-21):
تم وكمل الجزء الأول من مفردات ابن البيطار في الطب الشريف
بتأريخ يوم الخميس خامس عشر شوال المعظم سنة أثنان وخمسين وثمانمائة
وكتبه العبد الفقير إلى الله تعالى الحاج علي ابن أحمد ابن حسن الشهير بالشلبي غفر له
ولوالديه ولمن نظر فيه وقرأ فيه ودعا لكاتبه بالمغفرة والرحمة له ولوالديه ولجميع
المسلمين يبتدئ الجزء الثاني من أول حرف السين على التمام
والكمال وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003471875
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-003471875
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iv+310+iii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100092864277.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
Hebrew - Start Date:
- 1448
- End Date:
- 1448
- Date Range:
- 15 Shawwāl 852
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 263 x 175 mm leaf [dimensions of written area variable]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 17-25 lines per page; vertical spacing 9-13 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; multiple hands (changes of hand notable on ff. 138v, 154r, 194r); the scribe who wrote the colophon is al-Ḥājj ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥasan al-Shalabī (الحاج علي ابن أحمد ابن حسن الشلبي, see f. 309r, line 18)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: None
Binding: British Museum binding in red leather with pentagonal envelope flap
Condition: Paper damaged at edge and gutter and repaired towards front and back of volume; many folios creased in the upper edge corner; foxing and stains throughout
Marginalia: Numerous in Arabic in both Arabic and Hebrew script
Seals: ff. 1r, 2r, 3r and 146r, British Museum seal on ff. 1r and 310v
- Custodial History:
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- Ibrāhīm (إبراهيم): his inscription in Judaeo-Arabic or Hebrew without date and his seal in Arabic with text printed in reverse without date (f. 1r);
- Yaʻqūb ibn al-Ḥakīm Yūsuf (يعقوب بن الحكيم يوسف): his inscription without date (f. 1r);
- Muḥammad Jamīl (محمد جميل): his seal with date 1216(?)/1801-2(?) (ff. 2r, 3r and 146r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Baron Alfred Freiherr von Kremer (1828-89), 9 January 1886
- 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 195, p. 170
- Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 798, pp. 542-3
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Editions:
- 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:
- 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)
Study:
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 280-83
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)