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Arundel Or 14, ff 1r-274v

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040-003395015
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003395014
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ark:/81055/vdc_100065290163.0x000001
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Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 14, ff 1r-274v
Title:

al-Juz’ al-thāmin wa-al-juz’ al-tāsi‘ min al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الجزء الثامن والجزء التاسع من الحاوي في الطب

Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا

Scope & Content:

Parts Eight and Nine (الجزء الثامن والجزء التاسع) of the Kitāb al-Ḥāwī (كتاب الحاوي, Liber continens), an encyclopaedic medical compendium by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925).

The title page (f. 3r) gives the following title:

الجزء الثامن من كتاب الحاوي

في الطب

وفيه

الجزء التاسع والجزء العاشر

The division between parts eight and nine is not apparent in the text.　

The production date of this codicological unit can be given a terminus ante quem of 711/1311-12, the earliest date found amongst the ownership inscriptions on f. 3r.

Begins (f. 3v, lines 2-6):

من التدبير الملطف

قال التدبير الملطف يحل جسا الكبد قال ولا ينبغي في علل

الكبد والطحال أن يخلط بماء كشك الشعير عسل لي

أقل السكر هاهنا لي تفقل (؟) في علل الكبد حال البول

فمتى رأيته احتبس أصلًا فاعلم أن الورم في الكبد عظيم جدًا

Ends (f. 274v, lines 20-21):

فيحمله بجامع وهي محملة له فإنه عجيب وإن كان سره غلام

ولدت غلامًا وإن جارية فجارية.

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Arundel Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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040-003395015
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Arundel Or 14 : al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الحاوي في الطبRāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد…

 

Arundel Or 14, ff 1r-274v : al-Juz’ al-thāmin wa-al-juz’ al-tāsi‘ min al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الجزء الثامن والجزء…
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Ff. 1r-274v

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Languages:
Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1311
Date Range:
c 711
Calendar:
Hijri qamari
Era:
AH
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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 215 x 150 mm leaf [170 x 110 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; quire marks partially visible on some folia (see e.g. ff. 67r and 68r)

Ruling: Misṭarah; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh; more than one hand, changes of scribal hand noticeable at ff. 72r, 101r, 163r, and 221r

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red

Decoration: None

Binding: British Museum maroon half-leather binding, both covers gilt tooled with coat of arms and legend 'Bibliotheca Arundeliana'; indications that previous binding had envelope flap (ff. 1 and 2)

Condition: Minor insect damage, some repaired; some bleed-through of iron-gall ink; stains towards back of volume

Marginalia: Few by more than one hand

Seals: None

Custodial History:
  • al-Dimashqī (الدمشقي), rest of name unclear: his inscription, with date Friday 28 Ṣafar 884/21 May 1479 (f. 1v);
  • Ismā‘īl (إسمعيل), rest of name erased: his inscription, with date 727/1326-27, rest of date erased (f. 3r);
  • Inscription, mostly erased, with date 711/1311-12 (f. 3r);
  • Inscription, with date 4 Rabī‘ I 884/26 May 1479 (f. 3r);
  • Further owners' inscriptions erased and illegible (f. 3r);
  • The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 3r);
  • ‘Abd al-Wāḥid al-Yahūdī (عبد الواحد اليهودي): his inscription, without date (f. 3v).
Finding Aids:
  • Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 446, pp. 221
  • Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 63, pp. 55
Publications:

Edition:

  • Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, Kitāb al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb, ed. by ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bukhārī et al., 23 volumes in 25 (Ḥaydar Ābād al-Dakan: Maṭbaʻat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʻārif al-ʻUthmānīyah, 1958-81)

Latin translation:

  • Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, Liber Helchauy. idest continens artem medicine & dicta predecesso[rum] in hac facultate conmendato[rum], ed. by Hieronymus Salius Fauentinus (Impressum Venetijs: Mandato & sumptibus Heredum Octauiani Scoti Modoetiensis per Bonetum Locatellum Bergomensem presbyterum, 1506)

Studies:

  • 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), pp. 1-26
  • Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 278-80
  • Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 130-31
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)