Author
Dā'ūd al-Ḍarīr ibn 'Umar al-Anṭākī
Publication Date
1838 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Place
Cairo -
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 12187, ff 3v-324v
Record ID
vdc_100023522512.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1838 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
A copy of the medical encyclopaedia
Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb
(Remembrance of those of understanding and the one who gathers wonder for wonder) by Dā’ūd al-Ḍarīr ibn ‘Umar al-Anṭākī (Dā’ū al-Dārīr ibn Umar al-Antaki; d. 1599). The title page to the text (f. 3r, line 5) calls the author al-Qaṣīr (the short) instead of the correct al-Ḍarīr (the blind).
The manuscript was copied in 1838, in Cairo, by the scribe Ayyūb of Nazareth (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
to item four, f. 330, lines 9-13). This is the same year that the first printed edition of the encyclopaedia was published, also at Cairo.
Beginnings (f. 3v, lines 2-6):
My Lord, grant success to its completion, praise be to God and his family. Praise be to God alone, and may God’s blessings be upon him after whom there is no prophet
Glory be to You, the Creator of the substances of beings without any previous example. And the inventor of images of existing things in Akmal
System and coordination. A variety of types of the second temperament results from the first ones. Its distinct chapters are divided into
According to the subjects and objects. His jewels are decorated with symptoms, combinations and properties. And inspiring
Extracted by experiments and measurement...
Ends (f. 324v, lines 10-14):
... Jacob mentioned the partridge. Some of them said such and such, but among us it is called a small, many-colored bird
He clings to the trees at night, and Jacob shouts in explicable letters, and I do not know of any benefit to him. An Arabic pumpkin for every
It has a stem whose branches extend to the ground, like watermelon and kabowa, and it may be specific to the dhaba, the oud’s horn
The two-footed dove, or any encircled dove, is pronounced with a united letter, so its double after the waw is from the khārūnūb, and with multiples.
Art after the letter waw grows from dandelion or a yellow-flowered Moroccan plant that sticks wounds
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 324v, lines 15-18):
The first part was completed as I hoped
Overall laws
And to the gift of the mind is grace
And the credit
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Edition:
Anṭākī, Dā’ūd ibn ‘Umar,
Tadhkirat ulī al-albāb wa-l-jāmiʿ lil-ʿajab al-ʿujāb
(printed with
al-Nuzhah al-mubhijah fī tashḥīdh al-adhhān wa-taʿdīl al-amzijah
), ed. by Maḥmūd al-Falakī, 3 vols. in 1, (Cairo: Musṭạfā al-Bābī al-Hạlabī, 1952, repr. 1982, 2 vols. in 1)
