Author
Amīn al-Daulah Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff
Publication Date
13th or 14th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
243 x 165 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 3690
Record ID
vdc_100050523695.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
13th or 14th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Medical treatment by Amīn al-Daulah Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff (Amin al-Dawla Abu al-Faraj ibn Yaqoub ibn Ishaq ibn al-Quff, d. 1286). The treated Baibars al-Bunduqdari, reg. 1260-77).
A list of the fifty-nine sections (chapters) of the treatise is given on ff. 6r-7v, but this manuscript contains a sixtieth section on physiognomy. This copy is defective at the end.
Begins (f. 5v, lines 2-5):
The poor one said to God Almighty, Abu Al-Faraj bin Yaqoub, known as Ibn Al-Qaff Al-Christian
Praise be to God, the Holy One of the attributes and names, the One who determines the disease and the cure, the One who erases the dead
The Creator of the living, the Creator of symptoms and essences, above all taxes and appearances
He blessed animals with their sustenance, singled out man for his virtue of speech, and may God bless his elite among his creation
Ends (f. 180v, lines 14-17, defective at end):
...too much hip flesh
Evidence of weak strength. Thick legs are evidence of idiocy and rudeness. The accuracy of the heel
Evidence of cowardice and harshness is evidence of gluttony. A gentle foot is evidence of its owner
He has a debaucherous temperament and a large amount of meat is evidence of misunderstanding if his steps are quick and short
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 223, pp. 190-91
Rieu, Charles,
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum
(London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 803, pp. 544-45
Edinme Kaynağı
Acquired for the British Museum By Earnest Wallis Budge, Keeper of Oriental Antiquities (see Rieu, Charles,
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum
[London: The British Museum, 1894], p. viii)
Köken
Ibn al-Usṭuwānī Ibrāhīm Afandī al-Nāẓir (ابن الأسطواني إبراهيم أفندي الناظر): his inscription recording his purchase of the manuscript from Naṣr Allāh Shāhīn, without date (نصر الله شاهين, f. 3r);
al-Ra’īs Muḥammad al-Ṭabīb al-Ḥamawī (الرئيس محمد الطبيب الحموي): his inscription with date 987/1579-80 (f. 4r);
al-Ḥāj Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥāj Yūsuf (الحاج محمد ابن الحاج يوسف): his inscription, without date (f. 4r);
Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Khaṭīb al-Manṣūrīyah (محمد بن محمد بن أحمد بن خطيب المنصورية): his inscription, without date (f. 5r);
Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (محمد بن محمد بن أحمد): his inscription, without date (f. 5r).
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Ibn al-Quff, Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq,
Jāmiʻ al-gharad ̣fī hịfz ̣al-sịhḥạh wa-dafʻ al-marad. Ibn al-Quff al-Karaki's book Preventive medicine and the preservation of health
, ed. by Sami Khalaf Hamarneh (Amman: University of Jordan, 1989)
Studies:
Hamarneh, Sami Khalaf,
The Physician, Therapist, and Surgeon, Ibn al-Quff (1233-1286): An Introductory Survey of his Time, Life , and Works
(Cairo: Atlas Press 1974)
Hamarneh, Sami Khalaf, 'An Arab pioneer of preventive medicine: Ibn al-Quff',
Studies in History of Medicine
4 (1980) pp. 280-303
Iskandar, A.Z.,
A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library
, 1967), p. 113
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 176 and 191-92
