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Or 8293, ff 129v-170r
- Record Id:
- 040-002430851
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002430845
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000006831.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023483503.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 8293, ff 129v-170r
- Title:
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Collection of medical extracts and prescriptions
- Scope & Content:
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This collection begins (ff. 129v-163v) with prescriptions similar in style and format to those of the Aqrābādhīn of Ibn al-Tilmīdh, and at least one is said to have been chosen by Ibn al-Tilmīdh (اختاره أمين الدولة; f. 151v, line 3). Next is a ‘selection from Galen’s Substitutions [مختار من أبدال جالينوس; f. 164r-165v]’, i.e. from the pseudo-Galenic treatise on substitute drugs known as De succedaneis liber (see Fichtner, Corpus Galenicum, p. 79, Item 133). This selection from pseudo-Galen is said to have been ‘copied from the great Amīn al-Dawlah’s [i.e. Ibn al-Tilmīdh’s] own handwriting [منقول من خطّ الأجلّ أمين الدولة; f. 164, line3]’. The collection ends with a discussion of substitute drugs by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā’ al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرازي; ff. 165v-170r).
Begins (f. 129v, lines 2-6):
دهن القسط
يسقى فينفع من برد (؟) الأعضاء وخصوصًا
الكبد والمعدة ويفتح السدد ويشد
العصب ويقويه ويحسن اللون ويحفظ
الشعر
Ends (f. 170r, lines 5-8):
... بدل عصارة
طراثيث عصارة القرظ. بدل الشيبار مصطكا وصبر أو يقتع (؟) الصبر
بدل أقرصة الورد ماء الرازبانج والكرفس مع عسل مادي. بدل
جلنجين عسل مادي مع رازبانج
Colophon (f. 170r, lines 9-11):
تم الكتاب بحمد الله وعونه وتوفيقه
وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد النبي وصحبه وأله وعترته
الطاهرين وسلم تسليمًا
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002430845
040-002430851 - Is part of:
- Or 8293 : Aqrābādhīn madīnat al-salam أقراباذين مدينة السلمIbn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id ابن…
Or 8293, ff 129v-170r : Collection of medical extracts and prescriptions - Hierarchy:
- 032-002430845[0002]/040-002430851
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 8293
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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ff. 129v-170r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000006825.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1227
- End Date:
- 1228
- Date Range:
- 625
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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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:
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- 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:
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Study:
Fichtner, Gerhard, Corpus Galenicum. Bibliographie der galenischen und pseudgalenischen Werke (Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012), p. 79, Item 133 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)