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Or 14376
- Record Id:
- 032-003477030
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003477030
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100098983347.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106286146.0x000002
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- Or 14376
- Title:
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Kitāb fī ʿilm al-zardaqah كتاب في علم الزردقة
Bayṭār, Abū Bakr ibn Mundhir بيطار، أبو بكر بن المنذر
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Veterinary manual on the medical treatment of horses, consisting of a summary of the fifth and sixth chapters (مقالات) of the Kitāb kāmil al-ṣināʻatayn fī al-bayṭarah wa-al-zardaqah (كتاب كامل الصناعتين في البيطرة والزردقة), also known as Kāshif hamm al-wayl fī maʻrifat amrāḍ al-khayl (كاشف هم الويل في معرفة أمراض الخيل, see f. 36v, lines 11-14 and f. 59, lines 4-5), by Abū Bakr ibn Badr al-Dīn ibn al-Mundhir al-Bayṭār al-Nāṣirī (أبو بكر بن بدر الدينن بن المنذرالبيطار الناصري, d.1340). Al-Bayṭār was the horse veterinarian of Sultan al-Nāṣir ibn Qalāwūn (الناصر بن قلاوون), and the treatise is also known as al-Nāṣirī.
The author, whose name is given in the present volume as ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Badr al-Miṣrī (عبد الله ابن البدر المصري, see below, f. 10r, line 10), relates that he gathered, tested and compiled recipes used by his own father (see incipit, f. 10r, lines 11-14, transcribed below). The medications and recipes are described and occasionally illustrated with diagrams (ff. 36r, 36ar, 48r, 49v, 52v, 58v, 59r, 61r, 72r and 91r).
The text was copied on 2 Āb (August), 1838 by the scribe al-Khūrī ('The Priest') Mikhāīl Shabāṭ ʻAramūnī for Shaykh Haydar, son of the deceased Shaykh Hind al-Khāz (see colophon, f. 94r, lines 13-17).
The text is organised into four chapters (مقالة) each subdivided into many entries (باب) enumerated in the contents list (ff. 4r-10r) and corresponding in order to the Kitāb kāmil al-ṣināʻatayn. F. 20 is bound out of order, and rpoperly belongs to the fourth chapter between ff. 90 and 91.
The flyleaves and first three folios contain figures and notes relating to the births and lineages of foals.
Contents:
- First chapter (المقالة الأولى): skin diseases, injuries, and diseases affecting the head (ff. 10r-36v);
- Second chapter (المقالة الثانية): afflictions of the body (ff. 36v-59v);
- Third chapter (المقالة الثالثة): afflictions of the legs and pregnancy (ff. 59v-87v);
- Fourth chapter (المقالة الرابعة): descriptions of medical equipment (ff. 87v-94r).
Begins (f. 10r, lines 10-14):
وبعده فيقول الفقير إلى الله تعالى عبد الله ابن البدر المصري
هذا كتاب في علم الزردقة جمعته مما جربه والدي بحضوري
والذي جربته وصح من قول الأستاذ ورتبته
على أربعة مقالة (!) كل مقالة تستوي (!) على عدة أبواب
وأسأل التوفيق انه قريب مجيب
Ends (f. 94r, lines 2-12):
... غيره
دواء لنزلات العين هات قشر صفصاف
ولببه (؟) مثل قشر التوت و أحرقه
وخذ رماده وأعجنه قرص
واحلق نافوخ الرأس
والزق عليه فإنه
نافع إن شاء الله
تعالى انتهى
والحمد لله
لا ينتهي
صح
Colophon (f. 94r, lines 13-17):
صح قد تم نسخ هذا الكتاب بعونه تعالى بقلم كاتبه الخوري مخايل
شباط عرموني وهو يخص جناب الشيخ حيدر ابن المرحوم
الشيخ هند الخاز صح في ٢ آب سنة ١٨٣٨ م وبما إنه كتاب حكمة قد
نقلته تصويرًا صح صح
قد أتم بيد الخاطئ مخايل بن شباطي تحسينه مع تنميقه كزيانة الخراط (؟)
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- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- 032-003477030
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- 032-003477030
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. i+95+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100098983347.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1838
- End Date:
- 1838
- Date Range:
- 2 Āb 1838
- Era:
- CE
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Material: Western laid paper, with watermarks
Dimensions: 147 x 104 mm leaf [110 x 701 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 18 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is al-Khūrī Mikhāīl Shubāṭ ʻAramūnī (see f. 194r, lines 13 and 17)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: Yellow, red and black geometric painted design surrounding the Trinitarian formula (f. 4r)
Binding: Brown leather binding with stamped frames and corner and central designs; sewn with string supports and cloth reinforcement.
Condition: Leather of front cover detached from the delaminated and fragile front board, exposing spine and sewing; some water stains at folio edges
Marginalia: Very few
Seals: British Library seals (ff. 1r and 94r)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Bought at Christie's, June 1987 (Lot 49)
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Editions of source text:
- al-Bayṭār, Abū Bakr ibn Badr al-Dīn, Kāmil al-sināʻatayn fī al-bayṭarah wa-l-zardaqah, al-maʻrūf bi-l-Nāṣirī, ed. and study ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ibrīqī (Ḥalab: Mudīrīyat al-Kutub wa-l-Matbūʻāt al-Jāmiʻīyah, 1993)
- al-Bayṭār, Abū Bakr ibn Badr al-Dīn, Kāshif hamm al-wayl fī maʻrifat amrāḍ al-khayl, aw, Kāmil al-ṣināʻatayn al-bayṭarah wa-al-zardaqah al-maʻrūf bi-al-Nāṣirī. Kâshif hamm al-wayl fî maʻrifat ʼamrâḍ al-khayl: le découvreur de l'importance des maux relativement à la connaissance des maladies de chevaux, ou, La perfection des deux arts traite complet d'hippologie et d'hippiatrie connu sous le nom al-Nâṣirî, ed. Abdel-Rahman al-Daccak (Bayrūt: Dār al-Nafāʼis, 1991-96)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)