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Arundel Or 10, ff 109r-123r
- Record Id:
- 040-002430252
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002409588
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000006223.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023901480.0x000007
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel Or 10, ff 109r-123r
- Title:
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al-Maqālah al-Amīnīyah fī faṣad al-‘urūq المقالة الأمينية في فصد العروق
Avicenna ابن سينا
- Scope & Content:
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This treatise on venesection (i.e. bloodletting; فصد) is usually attributed to Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn al-Tilmīdh (أبو الحسن هبة الله بن التلميذو, d. 594 AH/AD 1154 or 560 AH/AD 1165), and the word Amīnīyah (‘of Amīn’) is taken to refer to Ibn al-Tilmidh’s laqab, Amīn al-Dawlah. The treatise’s title page in this manuscript (f. 109r, lines 1-5, transcribed below), however, attributes the text to Avicenna (Abū ‘Alī ibn Sīnā, أبو علي بن سينا, ca 980-1037), and claims that it was called al-Amīnīyah because Avicenna had dedicated it to a certain person called Amīn.
The text is divided in to ten chapters (أبواب), a list of which is given on f. 109v:
- الباب الأول في حد الفصد (‘Chapter 1: Definition of venesection’; ff. 109v-110r);
- الباب الثاني في الأغراض المقصود بالفصد (‘Chapter 2: Intended aims of venesection’; ff. 110r-110v);
- الباب الثالث في الفصد في الجملة وفي كيفية فصد العروق والشرايين الغائرة (‘Chapter 3: Venesection in general, and how to bleed veins and deep-set arteries’; ff. 110v-113r);
- الباب الرابع في منافع شد العضو عند فصد عروق مأبض اليد وكيفية الرباط الأول والثاني (‘Chapter 4: Benefits of binding the limb while bleeding the veins of the wrist (?), and how to make the first and second ligatures’; ff. 113r-114r);
- الباب الخامس في عدد العروق المفصودة على الأكثر وكيفية فصد كل واحد منها (‘Chapter 5: Total number of blood vessels that can be bled, and how to bleed each of them’; ff. 114r-116v);
- الباب السادس في ذكر العلل التي يفصد لها كل واحد من العروق (‘Chapter 6: List of the diseases for which each of the blood vessels is bled’; ff. 116v-118r);
- الباب السابع في العلل التي ينفع منها الفصد (‘Chapter 7: Diseases benefitted by venesection’; ff. 118r-120r);
- الباب الثامن في العلل التي يضرّ فيها الفصد (‘Chapter 8: Diseases exacerbated by venesection’; not found in this manuscript);
- الباب التاسع في استدراك خطأ الفاصد (‘Chapter 9: Fixing the phlebotomist’s mistake’; ff. 120r-121r);
- الباب العاشر في شروط الماجودة على الفاصد (‘Chapter 10: Conditions imposed on the phlebotomist’; ff. 121r-123r).
Title page (f. 109r, lines 1-5):
مقالة الأمينية
في فصد العروق وضعها الشيخ أبو علي
بن سينا رضي الله عنه لإنسان يدعا بالأمين
فعرفت بالأمينية فظنّ أنه بن التلميذ فنسبت
إليه وليس بصحيح وألله أعلم
Begins (f. 109v, lines 2-5):
مقالة في الفصد
تصنيف الأجل السيد أمين الدولة مؤقف الملك رئيس
الحكماء أبي الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد بن إبرهيم وهو عشرة
أبواب ...
Ends (f. 123r, lines 2-7):
... فانه إذا اعتمد ما
ذكرناه وأخذ نفسه به اذداد بصيره وازداد
الناس به شغفًا وله قبول وحظي بالمطلوب
الأشرف وهو الذلفاء (؟) عند الله سبحانه وتعالى
التي هي أو في من جميع ما رغبناه فيه إن شاء
الله تعالى
Colophon (f. 123r, lines 8-10):
تمت المقالة بعون الله تعالى
ومنّه وحسن توفيقه والحمد
لله بر العالمين
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002409588
040-002430252 - Is part of:
- Arundel Or 10 : Medical compendium
Arundel Or 10, ff 109r-123r : al-Maqālah al-Amīnīyah fī faṣad al-‘urūq المقالة الأمينية في فصد العروقAvicenna… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002409588[0007]/040-002430252
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel Or 10
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- ff. 109r-123r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000005583.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1312
- End Date:
- 1313
- Date Range:
- 711-712
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 174 x 124 mm leaf [130 x 94 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling:
- Misṭarah; 11 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm (ff. 4v-27v);
- Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing lines per 10 cm (ff. 28v-104r and 109r-174r);
- No ruling visible; average 18 lines per page; 16 lines per 10 cm (ff. 105v-108v)
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and over lining in red
Binding: British Museum binding in brown leather
Condition: minor waterstains, some foxing and light grime from thumbing, some folios torn and repaired (e.g. ff. 10, 11 and 68)
Marginalia: Occasional marginal annotations and corrections
- Custodial History:
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See note on f. 28r of one Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Khalīl (?) ibn al-Ḥaṣūn (?) who inspected and copied the texts on ff. 28v-104r and 109r-174r on 17 Jumādá II 829/26 April 1426.
Front paper i verso contains an anonymous bookplate with motto ‘NULLIUS IN VERBA’.
Folio 4r contains stamp inscribed ‘Soc. Reg. Lond. ex dono Henr. Howard Norfolciensis’.
- Administrative Context:
- Aleppo
- Finding Aids:
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- Cureton, William, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum 1846-71), pp. 456-57 (Item 984)
- Publications:
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Edition and French Translation
- Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh, Maqālah fī al-faṣd, Ṣubḥī Maḥmūd Ḥammāmī, ed. and trans., (Aleppo: Jāmiʻat Ḥalab, 1997)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)