Author
al-Muwaffiq Shams al-Riyāsah abū al-‘Ashā’ir Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn
Publication Date
13th century (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 2601, ff 39r-78v
Record ID
vdc_100024114874.0x000002
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
13th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Fragment of a general guide to medicine by al-Muwaffiq Shams al-Riyāsah abū al-‘Ashā’ir Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn (Al-Muwaffaq Shams al-Riyasah Abu al-Asha’ir Hibat Allah ibn Zayn; d. 1198) known as Ibn Jumay’ (Ibn All), personal physician to the sultan of Egypt and Syria Saladin (Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi; d. 1193).
The work is divided into four books (articles), and this copy contains Book One, chapters one to seven and ten to thirty-eight out of a total fifty chapters. Folios 39r-41r contain a detailed table of contents.
Beginnings (f. 41v, lines 1-57):
Chapter one
In the limit and purpose of medicine
[...] Some of the crafts are those whose purpose is only knowledge, such as natural science
It is called theoretical sciences and artefacts, including what they are intended to do
Doing something like industry, and active crafts are called...
Ends (f. 78v, lines 12-14):
...And therefore the eminent physician Galen says that (particularly?)
Knowing some of the benefits of the guard organs (?) without taking action
Therefore, the benefit for them (?) consists of knowing the active member
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Hamarneh, Sami,
Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library
(Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte 1975), Item 170, p. 149
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Study:
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 164-65
