Author
‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī
Publication Date
14th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
175 x 120 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 5914
Record ID
vdc_100054481745.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
14th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Commentary by ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī (علاء الدين علي بن أبي الحزم القرشي), known as Ibn al-Nafīs (ابن النفيس, d. 1288) on the
Aphorisms
(كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC).
The manuscript is defective at end, terminating abruptly during Aphorism 55, the penultimate aphorism of Book Seven (cf. ed. Tytler, 1832, p. 65).
The title is found on f. 1r.
The folios after f. 104 were previously bound in a different order as may be seen by the note on f. 107v, which was previously the final folio (f. 161) when the folios were counted at the time of the manuscript's acquisition in April 1901. By January 1909, the folios had been rebound in their present order (see note at foot of f. 161v). Thirteen unfoliated, blank leaves have been bound into the manuscript to mark missing folia, one of which has become detached and now rests between the left board and end flyleaf.
Contents:
Following the arrangement of the Aphorisms, the commentary is divided into 7 books (مقالات):
المقالة الأولى (Book 1; ff. 1v-43r);
المقالة الثانية (Book 2; ff. 43r-70v);
المقالة الثالثة (Book 3; ff. 70v-102v);
المقالة الرابعة (Book 4; begins on f. 102v-defective at end);
المقالة الخامسة (Book 5; defective at beginning-125v);
المقالة السادسة (Book 6; ff. 125v-145v);
المقالة السابعة (Book 7; ff. 145v-161v defective at end).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-7):
قال الشيخ علاء الدين
علي ابن أبي الحرم القرشي
إن ما قد سلف من شروحنا لهذا الكتاب
فإن نسخة تختلف بحسب إختلاف أغراض
الطالبين وهذه النسخة إنما نتبع فيها ما نراه
لائقًا بالشروح ورائقًا في التصنيف ...
Ends (f. 161v, lines 10-13 defective at end):
... قال أبقراط
من كان لحمه رطبًا فينبغي أن يجوع فإن
الجوع يجفف الأبدان، التفسير
اللحم الرطب هو الرهل ومن كان لحمه كذلك
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards,
A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894
(London: British Museum, 1912), p. 42
Hamarneh, Sami,
Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library
(Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 240, pp. 196-7
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from David Fetto, 13 April 1901
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition of text commented upon:
Hippocrates,
الفصول الابقراطية
The Aphorisms of Hippocrates, Translated into Arabic by Honain ben Ishak, Physician to the Caliph Motawakkul
, ed. by John Tytler (Calcutta: The Education press, 1832)
Studies:
Karimullah, Kamran, 'Transformation of Galen’s Textual Legacy from Classical to Post-Classical Islamic Medicine: Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms',
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World
5.3 (2017) 311-58
Pormann, Peter and Kamran Karimullah, 'The Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms: Introduction',
Oriens: Journal of the International Society for Oriental Research
45.1-2 (2017), 1-52
Rosenthal, Franz, '"Life Is Short, the Art Is Long": Arabic Commentaries on the First Hippocratic Aphorism',
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
40, 1966, p. 226-45
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 172-3
