Author
BADR AL-DĪN ibn Bakr (or Abū-Bakr ibn Badr?). Author of the text
Publication Date
1471
Type
Other
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Pompeu Fabra University Library
Record ID
cdi_europeana_collections_9200519_ark_12148_btv1b11002643v
Library Location
Available Online
Date
1471
Sample Text
Scanning from a substitute document. Scanned from a substitute document. The author is Abū Bakr ibn al-Munḏir Badr al-Dīn al-Bayṭār This title that the author himself had given to his work, was later replaced by that of كامل الصناعتين. “the Complete with regard to the two arts” (namely: hippology and hippatrics الفروسية و البيطرة) and more commonly by that of الناصرى, because the author, Badr al-Dîn ibn Bakr, veterinary marshal employed in the service of the sultan Mamluk Al-Malik al-Nâṣir, son of Qalawoun, had composed it to please his sovereign. The work begins with these words: الحمد لله الواسع العطاء المسبل الغطاء. It consists of ten dissertations (اقوال), each of which is divided into several chapters. It is useless to reproduce the titles of these chapters, which are reported in the translation published by Doctor Perron (Paris, 1852-1860, three vols. in-8°). It is said, in the preface, that this work contains all the necessary knowledge for anyone who wants to learn veterinary science, the art of breeding and training horses, and the art of riding (علم البيطرة و الزرطقة و الفروسية). The word زرطقة, which Hadji Khalfa and Freytag mistakenly wrote زرطفة does not belong to the Arabic language; it must have been borrowed from abroad. Doctor Perron cites (volume II, page 429), a passage from the pharmacopoeia of the famous doctor Dâoûd, of Antioch, according to which “many Roums (or European writers) have treated animals while dealing with agriculture, and have given this type of composition the name of zortoka. » Doctor Perron adds: “It is therefore the res rustica, the rustic house, the prœdium rusticum! Would the Arabs have heard the words res rustica and had the misfortune to make it zortoka? » An Arab copyist was able, in fact, by moving a point, to change the زرطقة into زرطقة. Ms. dated 875 A.H. (1471 A.D.). Scanning performed from a substitute document. The author is Abū Bakr ibn al-Munḏir Badr al-Dīn al-Bayṭār This title that the author himself had given to his work, was later replaced by that of كامل الصناعتين. “the Complete with regard to the two arts” (namely: hippology and hippatrics الفروسية و البيطرة) and more commonly by that of الناصرى, because the author, Badr al-Dîn ibn Bakr, veterinary marshal employed in the service of the sultan Mamluk Al-Malik al-Nâṣir, son of Qalawoun, had composed it to please his sovereign. The work begins with these words: الحمد لله الواسع العطاء المسبل الغطاء. It consists of ten dissertations (اقوال), each of which is divided into several chapters. It is useless to reproduce the titles of these chapters, which are reported in the translation published by Doctor Perron (Paris, 1852-1860, three vols. in-8°). It is said, in the preface, that this work contains all the necessary knowledge for anyone who wants to learn veterinary science, the art of breeding and training horses, and the art of riding (علم البيطرة و الزرطقة و الفروسية). The word زرطقة, which Hadji Khalfa and Freytag mistakenly wrote زرطفة does not belong to the Arabic language; it must have been borrowed from abroad. Doctor Perron cites (volume II, page 429), a passage from the pharmacopoeia of the famous doctor Dâoûd, of Antioch, according to which “many Roums (or European writers) have treated animals while dealing with agriculture, and have given this type of composition the name of zortoka. » Doctor Perron adds: “It is therefore the res rustica, the rustic house, the prœdium rusticum! Would the Arabs have heard the words res rustica and had the misfortune to make it zortoka? » An Arab copyist was able, in fact, by moving a point, to change the زرطقة into زرطقة. Ms. dated 875 A.H. (1471 A.D.).
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