Author
Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, d. after 1068 Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman bin Ali bin Abi Sadiq al-Nisaburi
Author Original
ابو القاسم ععبد الرحمن بن علي بن ابي صادق النيسابوري
Subject
Medicine
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
118
Physical Dimensions
118 ff. 48 ff.
Library
FIHRIST Library
Library Asset ID
MS. Thurston 10
Record ID
1797
Library Location
Bodleian Library, Oxford University
Notes
The volume contains 169 folios. Folio 118b has a table of contents written by a tenth/sixteenth-century hand for the second item in the volume. A table of contents for the first item is written by the same hand on the front pastedown, which also has a one-line Karshūnī note reading Kitāb Ibn Abī Ṣādiq, as well as Latin notes regarding the nature of the two main items in the volume, a Latin version of the opening of the first aphorism, and the date 20 March 1667. Folio 167a−b has a short discourse by one Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Jamāl al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ṭurays al-mutaṭabbib, written in a large and fairly early hand with many ligatures and very few dots, in which he says that the most noble of books on the medical arts is the Aphorisms of Hippocrates along with the Taqdimat al-maʿrifah (by al-Dakhwār, d. 628/1230), and that he immersed himself also in the Kitāb al-Nīlīyah by Abū Sahl ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Nīlī (d. 420/1029) and the Kitāb al-Asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt of al-Samarqandī (d. 619/1222), amongst others. Folio 169ab is blank except for pagination in Arabic numerals. Karshūnī notes providing subject headings occur on folios 89a (al-ṣudāʿ, headache), 133a (fī al-istisqāʾ, on dropsy), 164a (fī al-buḥrānāt, on crises), and 165a (al-ruʿāf al-radī, a persistent nosebleed).
Sample Text
In the name of God... The Sheikh Imam, the scholar Abu Al-Qasim [= Al-Qasim] Abdul Rahman Ibn Ali Ibn Abi Sadiq, may God be pleased with him, said: “After praising God Almighty for all His praises and praising Him for what He deserves and blessings upon His Prophets and peace be upon Him, the care that sends people to issue a fatwa [= to acquire] is one of the doors of virtues and sciences for the most noble of human virtues, especially what people are most in need of.” To it from others, such as medical science
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