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Title:

Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam أقراباذين مدينة السلم

Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد

Scope & Content:

The medical formulary of Amīn al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id (أمين الدولة أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد) known as Ibn al-Tilmīdh (ابن التلميذ, d. 560 AH/AD 1165), chief physician at the ‘Aḍudī Hospital in Baghdad, and later court physician to the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtafī (المقتفي, reg. 1136-1160). This copy was completed some 63 years after the author’s death, in 625 AH/AD 1227-28 by ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī (علي بن أبي طالب بن علي بن علي بن علي بن الحسين الحلبي), probably at Baghdad (see title page f. 2v, lines 6-9, transcribed below).

The text is divided into 20 chapters (أبواب; see table of contents on ff. 2v-3r):

الباب الأول في الأقراص (‘Chapter 1: Pastilles’; ff. 3v-18v);

الباب الثاني في حبوب والإيارجات (‘Chapter 2: Pills and electuaries [īyārjāt]’; ff. 19r-27v);

الباب الثالث في سفوفات (‘Chapter 3: Powders’; ff. 28r-35r);

الباب الرابع في معاجين (‘Chapter 4: Pastes’; ff. 35r-41v defective at end);

الباب الخامس في الجوارشنات (‘Chapter 5: Electuaries [jawārishnāt]’; defective at beginning ff. 42r-48v);

الباب السادس في اللعوقات والربوب (‘Chapter 6: Remedies to lick [la‘ūqāt] and concentrated fruit juices [rubūb]’; ff. 49r-56v);

الباب السابع في الأشربة (‘Chapter 7: Syrups’; ff. 49r-68v);

الباب الثامن في المربيات (‘Chapter 8: Marmalades [murabbayāt]’; ff. 68v-70r);

الباب التاسع في المطبوخات (‘Chapter 9: Decoctions’, ff. 70r-79r);

الباب العاشر في الأكحال والذرورات والشيافات (‘Chapter 10: Dry eye-powders [akḥāl], eye-powders [dharūrāt] and wet eye-powders [shīyāfāt]’; ff. 79r-89r);

الباب الحادي عشر في الأدهان (‘Chapter 11: Oils’; ff. 89v-93r);

الباب الثاني عشر في المراهم (‘Chapter 12: Salves’; ff. 93r-99v);

الباب الثالث عشر في الضمادات والأطلية (‘Chapter 13: Plasters and spreadable remedies [aṭlīyah]’; ff. 99v-111r);

الباب الرابع عشر في الحقن والفتائل (‘Chapter 14: Enemas and suppositories’; ff. 111v-117r);

الباب الخامس عشر في الأدوية اليابسة والسنونات (‘Chapter 15: Dry remedies and dentifrices’; ff. 117v-121v);

الباب السادس عشر في السمنة (‘Chapter 16: Clarified Butter’; ff. 121v-123v);

الباب السابع عشر في سعوطات والغرغرات (‘Chapter 17: Snuffs and Gargles’; ff. 123v-125r);

الباب الثامن عشر في أدوية الرعاف (‘Chapter 18: Remedies for nosebleeds’; ff. 125r-126r);

الباب التاسع عشر في أدوية القيء (‘Chapter 19: Remedies for vomiting’; ff. 126v-127v);

الباب العشرون فيما يدر العرق ويمسكه (‘Chapter 20: Sudorifics and antiperspirants’; ff. 127v-128v).

Title page (f. 2v, lines 1-9):

إقراباذين (!) مدينة السلم

بغداد

انتزعه من عدّة أقراباذينات

هبة الله بن صاعد بن إبرهيم المعروف

بابن التلميذ تجاوز الله عنه

فرغ من نسخه الفقير إلى رحمة الله تعالى

علي بن أبي طالب بن علي بن علي بن علي بن الحسين

الحلبي حامدًا لله على نعمه وصليًا على محمد النبي وآله

أجمعين في سنة 625 هجرية

Begins (after table of contents, f. 3v, lines 1-4):

الباب الأول

في الأقراص

قرص الطباشير بالترنجبينللحمى الحادة والعطش والاعتقال

Ends (f. 128v, lines 1-5):

ومما يمنع العرق

يمسح البدن بدهن الورد ودهن الأس وتصبّ عليه ماء

الورد ويروح بالمراوح وينام العليل في موضع قد صير

فيه ورق الخلاف وورق الكرم والأس والكمثرى

والتفاح

Colophon (f. 128v, lines 6-9):

تم الأقراباذين بحمد الله وتوفيقه

الحمد لله حق حمده وصلى الله على سيدنا

محمد نبيه وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين إلى

يوم الدين

The lower margin of f. 128v and all of f. 129r contain notes and prescriptions in a hand other than that of the main scribe, ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ḥalabī.

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Oriental Manuscripts

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Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

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Or 8293 : Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam أقراباذين مدينة السلمIbn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id ابن…

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ff. 2r-128v

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1227

End Date:

1228

Date Range:

625

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper

Dimensions: 200 x 146 mm leaf [141 x 91 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah; 11 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm

Script: Very clear, well pointed and vocalised naskh; the scribe was ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings

Decoration: Title page (f. 2a), title and author information in cloud bands in box with gold borders, on background of blue with foliate arabesque design partially shaded in red; below and to the left of this is a similar, but less ornate, box containing information relating to the scribe

Binding: Ottoman (?) binding in red leather with blind-tolled borders, medallion and pendants; no envelope flap

Condition: light waterstains, some foxing, and a notable amount bleed-through of black ink

Marginalia: Frequent marginalia by more than one hand

Seals: See ff. 1r, 2r, 3r, 170r

Custodial History:

Folio 1r contains a number of annotations including owners’ inscriptions and stamps.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from Ḥājjī ‘Abd al-Majīd Belshah, 8 November 1919

Administrative Context:

Baghdad (?)

Finding Aids:

Edwards, E. 'Some rare and important Arabic and Persian manuscripts from the collections of Hajji Abu l-Majid Belshah now either in the British Museum or in the private collection of Professor Edward C Browne', in A Volume of Oriental Studies presented to Edward C Browne on his 60th Birthday, ed. by T.W. Arnold and R.A. Nicholson (Cambridge 1922), p. 139
Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte 1975), page 139, Item 158

Publications:

Edition and translation:

Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh, The Dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd̲ : Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries, Oliver Kahl, ed. and trans., (Leiden : Brill, 2007)

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Archives and Manuscripts

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Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id, physician, 1073?-1164?