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Or 5860, ff 1r-135v
- Record Id:
- 040-003394037
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- 032-003394036
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055178365.0x000001
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- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100066663086.0x000001
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- Or 5860, ff 1r-135v
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[Taqwīm al-adwīyah تقويم العدوية]
Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad إسفراييني، محمد
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on drugs by Muḥammad Ibn ‘Alī al-Isfarā’inī (محمد بن علي الإسفرائني, see f. 3v, line 10), according to the spelling of the nisba given in the manuscript and followed by Brockelmann (GALS II, 592), who gives the author a floruit date of 1543. Kaḥḥālah (III, 552, no. 14963) gives the author's full name as Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī al-Nīsābūrī al-Isfarāyīnī (فخر الدين محمد بن علي النيسابوري الإسفراييني), and gives him a floruit date of 1349.
The work is divided into a preface, two chapters (بابان), each subdivided into sections (فصول), and a conclusion (خاتمة), and a list of the chapters and sections is given on ff. 4v-5r:
- Preface (ff. 3v-5r);
- Chapter One: Simple Drugs and Foods, five sections (الباب الأول في الأدوية والأغذية المفردة وفيه خمسة فصول, ff. 5r-108v);
- Chapter Two: Compound Drugs, seven sections (الباب الثاني في الأدوية المركبة وفيه سبعة فصول, ff. 108v-132v).
- Conclusion (الخاتمة, ff. 132v-134r).
The majority of the work (ff. 5v-95r) is taken up by an alphabetical list of materia medica presented in ninety synoptic tables.
The copy was completed on 18 Rabī‘ II 1043/22 October 1633 by Ibn ‘Abd Allāh Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shīrāzī (ابن عبد الله أبو الحسن الشيرازي, see colophon, f. 134r, lines 4-5 and 8-9, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 3v, lines 1-3):
الحمد لله الذي أظهر أثار الحكمة في المعادن والبقول الأشجار وأودع أنواع المنافع
في الأصول والفروع والأزهار وزين الأشجار والنباتات بالأوراق والبزور
والأثمار وأنبت أنواع الأدوية في الأودية والجبال والبحار ...
Ends (f. 134r, lines 1-3):
... طرد الزنابير
يهرب من رائحة الكبريت ورائحة النورة والثوم ولا يقرب
من طبيخ الخطمي وعصارة الخبازي والزيت مجرب ...
Colophon (f. 134r, lines 3-10):
... قد وقع الفراغ
تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة في ثامن عشر شهر ربيع الثاني سنة
ثلث وأربعين بعد الألف من الهجرة النبوية
عليه من الصلوات أزكيها ومن التسليمات
أذكيها وأنماها على يد أقل الخليقة بل اللاشيء في
الحقيقة ابن عبد الله أبو الحسن
الشيرازي حامدًا لله
مصليًا
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003394036
040-003394037 - Is part of:
- Or 5860 : [Taqwīm al-adwīyah تقويم العدوية]Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad إسفراييني، محمدandTreatise on drugsTaqī…
Or 5860, ff 1r-135v : [Taqwīm al-adwīyah تقويم العدوية]Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad إسفراييني، محمد - Hierarchy:
- 032-003394036[0001]/040-003394037
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Ff. 1r-135v
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- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100066663086.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1633
- End Date:
- 1633
- Date Range:
- 18 Rabī‘ II 1043
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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- Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards, A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 46
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 275, p. 213
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Studies:
- Brockelmann, Carl, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur: Zweite den Supplementbänden angepasste Auflage (GALS), 3 vols (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996), vol. 2, p. 592.
- Iskandar, A.Z., A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1967), p. 201
- Kaḥḥālah, ʻUmar Riḍā, Muʻjam al-muʾallifīn: tarājim muṣannifī al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah, 4 vols (Bayrūt: Muʾassasat al-Risālah, 1993), vol. 3, p. 552, (no. 14963)
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- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
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