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Or 6273, ff 90v-113r
- Record Id:
- 040-003464831
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003463277
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100088072621.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100124946980.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 6273, ff 90v-113r
- Title:
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Collection of prescriptions and short chapters on medical topics
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
- 1) Recipes and prescriptions for the preparation and use of various medicines (ff. 90v-93v);
- 2) Chapter explaining the definition of the pillars on which the animal body stands, which are the four elements (فصل في بيان تعريف الأركان التي عليها قوام البدن الحيواني وهي العناصر الأربعة, ff. 94r-94v);
- 3) Chapter explaining the definition of the four humours (فصل في تعريف الأخلاط الأربعة, ff. 94v-95v);
- 4) Explaining the signs of excesses of the four humours (في بيان علامات زيادة الأخلاط الأربعة , ff. 96r-96v);
- 5) Chapter on the regimen of (pre-?)treatments for diseases (فصل في تدبير تقديم معالجات الأمراض, f. 96v);
- 6) Chapter on explaining positive and negative signs in the patient (فصل في بيان العلامات المحمودة والرديئة في المريض, f. 97r);
- 7) Chapter on the use of simple oils (فصل في عمل الأدهان الساذجة, f. 98r);
- 8) Medical prescriptions and notes (ff. 98r-99r);
- 9) On explaining the definition of herbs and their names and explaining their harmful effects, extracted from the Book of the Flowers of the Bower (في بيان تعريف الحشيشة وأسمائها وبيان مضارها منقول من كتاب زهر العريش, f. 99v);
- 10) Chapter explaining the practicalities of the operation and cooking of medicines, testing the strength of the theriac and how long its strength remains, the strength of pastes, potions etc. (فصل في بيان كيفية تركيب الأدوية وطبخها وامتحان قوة الترياق ومدة بقاء قوته وقوة المعاجين والأشربة وغيرها, ff. 100r-101v);
- 11) Long extract from an unnamed medical work (ff. 102r-110v);
- 12) Extracts from The Book of Aims (كتاب المقاصد) and The Book of the Memoir of Ibn al-Suwaydī (كتاب تذكرة ابن السويدي), copied by the grandson of Muḥammad Amīn Bek ibn Ibrāhīm Bek ibn Yūnus Afandī ibn Yāsīn Afandī al-Muftī ibn Maḥmūd Afandī (محمد أمين بك بن إبراهيم بك بن يونس أفندي بن ياسين أفندي المفتي بن محمود أفندي, d. ca 1812, see Raʾūf, 'al-Adīb al-ṭabīb Muḥammad Amīn Bek Āl Yāsīn al-Muftī al-Mawṣilī' [2016], f. 111);
- 13) Chapter on knowing the natures of coffee, which is spread to and well-known in all lands, and the Yemeni peel, the coffee bean, qat and kuftah, which are well-known only in Yemen (فصل في معرفة طبائع القهوة وهي التي قد انتشرت واشتهرت في جميع البلاد والقشر اليماني والبن والقات والكفتة وهم مشهورين في بلاد اليمن فقط, ff. 112r-113r).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003463277
040-003464831 - Is part of:
- Or 6273 : A collection of works and extracts mostly on medicine
Or 6273, ff 90v-113r : Collection of prescriptions and short chapters on medical topics - Hierarchy:
- 032-003463277[0003]/040-003464831
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 6273
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 90v-113r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100124946980.0x000003
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- 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), pp. 41-42
- Publications:
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Study:
- Raʾūf, ʿImād ʿAbd al-Salām, 'al-Adīb al-ṭabīb Muḥammad Amīn Bek Āl Yāsīn al-Muftī al-Mawṣilī', al-Alūkah al-Thaqāfīyah website, posted 28 March 2016 [accessed 6 September 2019]
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)