Author
Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath
Publication Date
13th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
253 x 160 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 11615
Record ID
vdc_100050515544.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
13th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Volume One (Part One) of a compendium on
materia medica
by Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath (Abu Ja`far Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi al-Ash’ath; d. 970).
In the preface (f. 7v), the author states that the text is divided into three treatises (articles), but the manuscript is defective at the end, and only the first and a large portion of the second of the three treatises announced in the preface are preserved.
Contents:
Preface (ff. 1v-7v);
Treatise One (first article, ff. 7v-85v);
Treatise Two (second article, ff. 86r-190v, defective at end).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):
The first article from the book Powers of Medicines
The word is according to the doctrine of Galen, and it contains mention
The comprehensive laws are the work of Abu Jaafar
Ahmed bin Muhammad, known as Ibn Abi Al-Ash'ath
Ends (f. 190v lines 18-21, defective at end):
This is a principle and a very beneficial law that should be avoided in all types of situations
Foods, and if Galen said this about cucumbers, how much does it mean?
Which people eat a lot of at the end of summer and call it
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 75, pp. 66-8
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from S.H. Taqizadeh 10 October 1936
Köken
Abū al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥalabī (?) (أبو الحسن ابن عبد الله الحلبي [؟]): his endowment statement (وقفية), without date (f. 1r);
Ḥakīm Muḥammad Hāshim (حكيم محمد هاشم): his inscription without date, and his seal with date 1099/1687-8 (f. 1r);
Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Mutaṭabib (محمد بن عبد العزيز المتطبب): his inscription, with date 733/1332-3 (f. 1r);
Muḥammad Abū al-Tayyib al-Ḥanafī (محمد أبو الطيب الحنفي): his inscription, without date (f. 1r);
[... ibn] Abī al-Sa‘ādāt ibn Abī al-Barakāt ibn al-Ḥarrāth (?) al-Mutaṭabib ([... بن] أبي السعادات بن أبي البركات بن الحراث المتطبب): his inscription, dated Dhū al-Qa‘dah 656/October-November 1258 at Mosul, recording his acquisition of the manuscript (?) "from two sons of his brother Dawūd" (من ولدي أخوه داوود; f. 1r).
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Fulton, A. S., 'Arabic Medical Manuscripts',
The British Museum Quarterly
11.2 (1937), pp. 81-83
Sezgin, Fuat,
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums
, vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp 301-2
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medzin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 138 and 266
