Author
Amīn al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id
Publication Date
15 Shawwal 654 AH)
Publication Place
Baghdad -
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
203 x 148 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 8294
Record ID
vdc_100048368830.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
15 Shawwal 654 AH)
Notes
Handbook on the potencies of materia medica by Amīn al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id (Amin al-Dawlah Abu al-Hasan Haba Allah ibn Sa'id) known as Ibn al-Tilmīdh (Ibn al-Talmith, d. 1165), chief physician at the ‘Aḍudī Hospital in Baghdad, and later court physician to the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtafi (al-Muqtafi, reg. 1136-1160).
After an introductory section (ff. 1v-14v), the materia medica are listed alphabetically and their names are given in Arabic, Persian and Syriac (in Syriac script). Some short passages are also given in Syriac (e.g. f. 178v).
Spaces have been left blank for illustrations of the materia medica described, but only the illustration of the mandrake (Yebruh, f. 222v) has been completed, and that was perhaps added by a later hand.
The copy was completed at Baghdad on 15 Shawwāl 654/5 November 1256 by Ya‘īsh ibn Jaddā (?) al-Naṣrānī al-Mutaṭabib al-Arbīlī (Ya‘īsh ibn Jada al-Nusrani al-Mutaṭabib al-Arbilī, see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 224r, lines 4-10, transcribed below). A note to the left of the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
states that the collation was completed in Rajab 655/July-August 1257.
The title page (f. 1r) reads:
Kitab Quy al-Adwiyah
The singular you use it the most
In the composition of the hospital is ranked
On the letters of the dictionary conjugate (?) and the alphabet al-Sayed
الأجل الفيلسوف أمین الدولة رئيس
Al-Hikma' Abu al-Hasan Haballah ibn Sa'd
May Allah have mercy on him
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
Everything that happens to the body when it is done without an active verb does not fall
Who acts in the body or acts on it or acts on it and acts in it
Falsehood only works in the body is the absolute name
Ends (ff. 223v, lines 10-224r, line 1):
We use the original skin and skin
From the hospital compounds
In the three voice recorders
I want to use the skin in
Cockroach snipers do that
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 224r, lines 2-10):
The book is gone
Praise be to Allah as He is His people
He deserves to be protected by Baghdad
May Allah be pleased with him
The month of Shawwal in Sanaa is forty-five and twenty-five
الهلاية العربية In the name of Allah
The book of the poor servant to the mercy of his Lord
Yaish bin Jada al-Nusrani al-Muttabbab
الأربيلي
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 159, pp. 139-40
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from Abdul Majid Belshah, 8 November 1919
Köken
Mukhtār ibn Abū (!) Ṭālib (مختار بن أبو [!] طالب): his inscription, without date (f. 224).
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Study:
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp.160-61 and 275
