Author
Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Dakhwār, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʻAlī, 1169 or 70-1230 or 31 Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Dakhwār, Abd al-Rahim Ali, 565-628 AH
Author Original
مهذب الدين الدخوار، عبد الرحيم علي، هـ
Subject
Medicine, Ethics, Arabic proverbs
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
127
Physical Dimensions
127 ff. 1 f. 1 f. 1 f. 2 ff.
Library
FIHRIST Library
Library Asset ID
MS. Bodl. Or. 231
Record ID
869
Library Location
Bodleian Library, Oxford University
Notes
The volume contains 133 leaves. Folios 128b, 129ab, and 130b are blank. Folio 128a has a later note classifying twenty-five worldly activities (اعمال الدنيا). Folio 130a contains a fragment of the books of wisdom in the Septuagint, quoting Solomon the Wise (سليمان الكلي الحكمة) and the book of Ḥunayn [= Yashūʿ] ibn Shīrāḥ [the book Sirach]; see Graf, GCAL, i. 128. Folio 131ab is another fragment from the wisdom literature, while folios 132a−133b contain the moral narrative of an unnamed ruler who seeks the counsel of his wazir regarding the state of his soul following his necessary departure from this world, possibly composed by a monk (al-rāhib, folio 133b).
Sample Text
In the name of God... the poor servant says to his generous Lord. The sheikh, the imam, the scholar, the worker, the great chest, the complete leader, Badr al-Din Muzaffar bin Qadi Baalbek, the doctor, may God grant him his hopes in this world and the hereafter. When I read to the scholarly Sheikh Muhadhdib al-Din, may God have mercy on him, Hippocrates’s book The Progress of Knowledge, he worked extremely diligently and out of excessive effort...and he explained it to me chapter by chapter...then it was timely...for fear of forgetting and out of pity for him, to attach it to the meanings that he had worked so hard to acquire on his own and from what he had acquired from his sheikh, the bishop’s son.
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