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Or 12150, ff 2v-57v
- Record Id:
- 040-003791742
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003463245
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100117037414.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100141479579.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 12150, ff 2v-57v
- Title:
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Kitāb al-iqtiḍāb al-majmūʿ ʿalā ṭarīq al-masʾalah wa-l-jawāb كتاب الاقتضاب المجموع على طريق المسألة والجواب
Ibn al-Masīḥī, Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr ابن المسيحي، سعيد بن أبي الخير
- Scope & Content:
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A compendium of medicine composed in a question and answer format, by Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr ibn ʿIsá al-Ṭabīb al-Masīḥī (سعيد بن أبي الخير بن عيسى الطبيب المسيحي, b. 1177, d. 1259 or 1260). Ibn al-Masīḥī was famous for healing the caliph al-Nāṣir (الناصر, reg. 1180–1225) from a serious illness in 1201.
An abbreviated version of this text is also found in many copies under the title Intikhāb al-iqtiḍāb (انتخاب الاقتضاب).
Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-6):
نبتدى بعونه تعالى نكتب الاقتضاب المجموع على
طريق المسئلة والجواب تصنيف الشيخ الرئيس الفيلسوف
الكامل أبي نصر سعيد ابن أبي الخير المسيحي ابن عيسى المتطبب
ما حد الطب وكم هي أجزاؤه الطب هو علم يعرف منه
أحوال بدن الإنسان...
Ends (f. 57v, lines 14-16):
...وهذه آخر المسائل الطبيعية المشتملة
على جمل في الطب قصد بها ليكون مدخلًا للمبتدئ وتذكرة للمنتهي
وفى ذلك كفاية تمت وبالخيرعمت والله ولي التوفيق ...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003463245
040-003791742 - Is part of:
- Or 12150 : Two treatises on medicine
Or 12150, ff 2v-57v : Kitāb al-iqtiḍāb al-majmūʿ ʿalā ṭarīq al-masʾalah wa-l-jawāb كتاب الاقتضاب المجموع… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003463245[0001]/040-003791742
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 12150
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 2v-57v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100141479579.0x000002
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1775
- End Date:
- 1807
- Date Range:
- late 18th-early 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Finding Aids:
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Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 166, p. 145
- Publications:
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Studies:
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 166
- Wellcome Collection MS Arabic 422, catalogued with question headings also found in Or 12150: https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_16065
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)