Author
the physician Salmān al-Mūsawī
Publication Date
1000 (AH, Hijri)
Publication Place
Mashhad -
Subject
1
Type
Document
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
255 x 170 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 5316
Record ID
vdc_100022996955.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1000 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Influential compendium of medicine written in 903 and dedicated to the Governor of Rayy, Abū Ṣāliḥ Manṣūr ibn Isḥāq (Abu Salih Mansur ibn Ishaq; see fol. 1v, line 3, transcribed below). The text is divided into ten books (articles), each one subdivided into chapters (chapters).
The copy was completed at Mashhad on 1 Ramaḍān 1000/11 June 1592 by the physician Salmān al-Mūsawī (Salman al-Musawi the physician; see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 191v, lines 16-20, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Zakaria Al-Muttabbab Al-Razi, may God have mercy on him, said to all of Prince Sindi and Ibn
My master Abu Solh Mansur bin Ishaq, may God prolong his life in my book, sentences, mosques, and nectads
Eyes in the medical industry...
Ends (f. 191v, lines 8-12):
...And as for those whose conversations were not many
Inflamed, then for each pound of this total, take the weight of a dirham of mastic and the like
Carmel, and something like it, is an ear of corn, so it is wrapped in a piece of cloth and thrown into it when cooking
We have reviewed all the articles at the beginning of this book, so that our book may be completed in
The location is praiseworthy...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 191v, lines 12-21):
...The book was written by the distinguished sage Muhammad bin Zakaria Al-Razi
And to the Giver of reason there is praise without end, as He deserves, deserves, and prays
God be upon Muhammad the Prophet and his good, pure, and good family
He always greeted you abundantly at the beginning of the blessed month of Ramadan
In the year ten thousand of the Prophet’s migration, may God bless him and grant him peace
Peace be upon him and his family, in the scene of the imam of the jinn and mankind
Abu Al-Hasan Ali Ibn Musa Al-Rida, peace be upon him, a thousand
May the blessings and peace of God be upon you, the dean of the doctrine
Salman Al-Moussawi, the doctor, may God forgive him
His sins and his parents
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
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. 45
Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 65, pp. 55-57
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from Gulbenkian & Co., 28 March 1898
Köken
Salmān al-Mūsawī (سلمان الموسوي), physician and the manuscript's scribe, his inscription in Persian (f. 1r);
Ibn Sayf al-Dīn ibn Muẓaffar (ابن سيف الدين بن مظفر), physician, his inscription and seal, undated (f. 1r);
Muḥammad Jasīm (محمد جسيم), his inscription and seal, date illegible (f. 1r);
Aḥmad ibn Salmān ibn Qāsim al-Mūsawī (أحمد بن سلمان بن قاسم الموسوي), physician and son of the manuscript's scribe, his inscription (f. 191v).
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā,
Manṣūrī fī al-ṭibb
, ed. Ḥāzim al-Bakrī al-Ṣadīqī (Kuwayt: Manshūrāt Ma‘had al-Makhṭūṭāt al-‘Arabīyyah, 1987)
Study:
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 132
