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IO Islamic 2171, ff 1r-365v

Record Id:
040-003471365
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003464770
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100092162974.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100129664944.0x000002
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 2171, ff 1r-365v
Title:

Baḥr al-jawāhirبحر الجواهر

al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf الهروي، محمد بن يوسف

Scope & Content:

An alphabetically-arranged medical dictionary in Arabic and Persian. The work was compiled from multiple source texts enumerated on f. 2r, lines 1-4 and including the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037), and commentaries on it. The dictionary includes parts of the body, eminent medical figures, conditions, and treatments (foodstuffs and simple and compound drugs).

The work was authored by the doctor Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 'the Harātī doctor' (محمد ابن يوسف الطبيب الهروي, d. 1542; see f. 1v, line 10) and dedicated to the wazīr Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad Amīr Bek (ظهير الدين محمد المشتهر بأمير بك; f. 2r, lines 8-9).

The copy was completed in 1096/1684-85 (see Colophon, f. 365v, line 7).

　

Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-3):

حمداً لعلام أجدى ذوى الإفهام تحقيق دقائق اللغات العربية وشكراً لوهاب أبدا

على أولى الألباب تدقيق حقائق النكات الأدبية سبحانه...

　

Ends (f. 365v, lines 2-6):

... هركس در آن زمين چيزي حفظ كند مطلقاً فراموش

نكند جمعي تجار گفتند كه ما در بحر بوديم چون بآن موضع رسيديم

هر چه از نافراموش بود در ايام گذشته همه بخاطر آمد و ازين

سبباست كه اكثر حكما منسوبند بآن موضع و در هيچ زمين مثل ايشان

پيدا نشده است

　

Colophon (f. 365v, lines 6-7):

تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب والله

أعلم بالصواب تم سنة ١٠٩٦

　

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003464770
040-003471365
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IO Islamic 2171 : Baḥr al-jawāhir بحر الجواهرal-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf الهروي، محمد بن يوسفand Two lists…

 

IO Islamic 2171, ff 1r-365v : Baḥr al-jawāhirبحر الجواهر al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf الهروي، محمد بن يوسف
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032-003464770[0001]/040-003471365
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Record Type (Level):
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Ff. 1r-365v

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https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100129664944.0x000002
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Languages:
Arabic
Farsi
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1684
End Date:
1685
Date Range:
1096
Calendar:
Hijri qamari
Era:
AH
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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. 68–9
  • Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 237
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Names:
Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, d 1542