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Record Id:
032-003719843
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Add MS 5934
Title:

Minhāj al-bayān fīmā yastaʿmiluhū al-insān منهاج البيان فيما يستعمله الإنسان

Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʿĪsá ابن جزلة، يحيى بن عيسى

Scope & Content:

Alphabetically arranged handbook on pharmacology by Abū ‘Alī Yahyá ibn ‘Īsá (أبو علي يحيى بن عيسى), known as Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة; d. 493/1100), composed for the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī bi-Amr Allāh (المقتدي بأمر الله; reg. 1075-94, see f. 1v, line 11).

The manuscript was collected by the Scottish surgeon and naturalist Patrick Russell (1726-1805), probably during his service as physician to the Levant Company factory in Aleppo (1753-71).

Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):

الحمد لله الذي ظهرت بدائع مصنوعاته وبهرت غرائب مبتدعاته

ودل بظواهر صنعته على لطيف حكمته وأنعم على الخلائق بضروب نعمه

وعم البرايا بأنواع النبات والثمار المختلفة المنافع والبحار يسقى بماء واحد

ويفضل بعضها على بعض في الأكل ...

Ends (f. 220r, lines 17-18):

... ينتون هو الثافسيا أي صمغ السداب الحبلى وهو حار يابس

يسهل البلغم وقد اسثوفي ذكره في باب الثاء ...

Colophon (f. 220r, lines 18-19):

... تم كتاب البيان فيما

يستعمله الإنسان وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وسلم تسليمًا

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+221+iv

Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1299
Date Range:
13th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Eastern laid paper (except for ff. 210-220, which are replacement leaves of western laid paper without watermark, and f. 221, which is a flyleaf of western laid paper with watermark)

Dimensions: 240 x 165 mm leaf [165 x 135 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; quire signatures (mostly quinions) in black ink (see ff. 8r, 20r, 30r, 40r, 60r, 70r, 80r, 90r, 100r, 110r, 120r, 130r, 140r, 160r, 170r, 190r and 200r), some mutilated or lost entirely through page trimming

Ruling: Misṭarah; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh

Ink: Brown ink of varying shades throughout manuscript; black ink with rubricated headwords on replacement folios 210-220

Decoration: None

Binding: Maroon leather binding, with stamped medallion, pendants and borders; marbled doublures and recto-side of first front flyleaf and verso-side of last end flyleaf

Condition: Edge margin mutilated and repaired without loss of text (ff. 1-2 and 121-128); minor tears and damage to paper throughout especially along ruling lines, some repaired (e.g., ff. 28, 29,93, 94, 118, 135-140, 200 and 209); final (twenty-second) quire lost and replaced (ff. 210-220)

Marginalia: Few by more than one hand (but see, e.g., ff. 50v, 125v, 131v and 162v), some mutilated or lost entirely through page trimming

Seals: F. 1r; British Museum stamp ff. 1r, 17r, 34r, 62r, 150r, 162, 192r and 220v

Custodial History:
  • Muḥammad al-Rifqī (محمد الرفقي), formerly a judge (القاضي) in Mecca: his inscription and seal, with date 1050/1640-1? (f. 1r);
  • Muḥammad (محمد): his inscription recording acquisition of the manuscript at Istanbul and seal without legible (f. 1r);
  • Abd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ḥakam (عبد الرحمان ابن الشيخ محمد الحكم): his inscription with date 1175/1761-2 (f. 1r);
  • Ḥasan ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ḥakam (حسن ابن الشيخ محمد الحكم): his inscription with date 1171/1757-8 (f. 1r);
  • Tēr Serōp‘ Karmrts‘i (Կարմրցի Տէր Սերօփս): his inscription recording a visit to doctor Girgor (հէքիմ Գիրգորին, probably an error for Grigor) in Trapizon (Trebizond, now Trabzon in modern Turkey) for which he offers a prayer of thanks, dated 1201/1751-2 (f. 221v).
Source of Acquisition:
From the legacy of Patrick Russell (1726-1805), surgeon and naturalist
Finding Aids:
  • 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 452, pp. 222
  • Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 142, pp. 123
Publications:
Studies:
  • J.S. Graziani, Arabic Medicine in the Eleventh Century as represented in the Works of Ibn Jazlah (Karachi: Hamdard Academy, 1980)
  • Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 274-5
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ‘Īsá, d 1100
Russell, Patrick, physician and naturalist, 1727-1805,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/18003738
Subjects:
Medicine--Early works to 1800
Pharmacology--Early works to 1800