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Or 5620, ff 1r-59v
- Record Id:
- 040-003394564
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003394563
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055601020.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100069662611.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5620, ff 1r-59v
- Title:
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Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology
- Scope & Content:
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Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology divided into forty-six chapters (باب). A table of contents listing the chapter titles is found on ff. 1r-2v.
The manuscript is defective at the beginning and f. 1 is a replacement written in a later hand.
The treatise is followed by a poem on sexual hygiene (ff. 56v-57v) and a short collection of prescriptions (ff. 57v-59v).
Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-3):
الباب الأول في الجرب الباب الثاني في البرودة الثالث في التحجّر
الباب الرابع في الالتصاق الباب الخامس في الشترة السادس في الشعيرة
الباب السابع في الشرناق الباب الثامن في السيلاق التاسع في الشعر
Ends (f. 56r, lines 2-4):
وينقع في خمسين مثقال شراب ليلة ثم يذاب الشمع والزيت
ويلقى عليه الحوائج حين يتطبخ فإذا انطبخ أنزله عن النار
والقى عليه العرمين ويوضع في إناء ويستعمل
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003394563
040-003394564 - Is part of:
- Or 5620 : Three treatises on medicine
Or 5620, ff 1r-59v : Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology - Hierarchy:
- 032-003394563[0001]/040-003394564
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 5620
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 1r-59v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100069662611.0x000003
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Finding Aids:
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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. 46-7
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 23, p. 251
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
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