The Extreme Perfection in Managing the Human Body
( غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم)

Name: The Extreme Perfection in Managing the Human Body
Author: Shalih ibn Nasser Allah ibn Salloum al-Halabi

Title	The Extreme Perfection in Managing the Human Body
Title Original	غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم
Author	Shalih ibn Nasser Allah ibn Salloum al-Halabi
Publication Date:	18th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	1
Physical Dimensions	239 x 148 mm
Library:	Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID	Or 11211
Record ID	vdc_100048077278.0x000001
Library Location	British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date	18th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes	Book One (Book One) of a medical compendium on pharmacognosy by Ṣāliḥ ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (Salih ibn Nasrallah ibn Salum al-Halabi, d. 1669), personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV (Muhammad IV, reg. 1648-87). The subject of Book One is diseases and their therapies. The copy was completed by Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad al-Ṭabīb (Hafiz Muhammad al-Tabīb, see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 236v, line 19, transcribed below). To either side of the last line of the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. are the numerals 4 (right) and 2 (left), written in a different ink and perhaps by a different hand and possibly indicating that the copy was completed in 1124/1712-13. Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-6): And after that, the science of medicine is a sea with no stability and a vast and difficult-to-reach sea Dust, and its origins and branches were recorded by the Greek sages The Latin doctors have countless journeys, and then the successors are great men Doctors (!) of Islam detailed these principles in appropriate detail, taking care and consideration... Ends (f. 236v, lines 9-15): ... The adjective is sufuf, so it is a shuktra, a mourner of half an ounce Mistletoe or qaytan cardonbaditi, one and a half dirhams Drink from one dirham to two dirhams per drink The white one stays on that for a while and is watered [...] dermatology such as foam and asarone Celery and more Done Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 236v, lines 19-21): His poor supplication to God Almighty, Hafez Muhammad the physician Praise be to God Almighty and prayers be upon His Prophet Muhammad and his family And all his companions
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 324, pp. 239-40
Edinme Kaynağı	Purchased from Oskar Rescher (1884-1972), 10 May 1930
Köken	Sharaf Muḥammad ‘Ishqī Beg (شرف محمد عشقي بيك): his inscription in Ottoman Turkish, with date 7 Muḥarram 1232/27 November 1816 (f. 1r).
Seçilmiş kaynakça	Studies: Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 182-84 Ullmann, Manfred, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1972), pp. 248

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The Extreme Perfection in Managing the Human Body

( غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم)

Author Shalih ibn Nasser Allah ibn Salloum al-Halabi

Publication Date 18th century (CE, Gregorian)

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 1

Physical Dimensions 239 x 148 mm

Library Qatar Digital Library

Library Asset ID Or 11211

Record ID vdc_100048077278.0x000001

Library Location British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Date 18th century (CE, Gregorian)

Notes Book One (Book One) of a medical compendium on pharmacognosy by Ṣāliḥ ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (Salih ibn Nasrallah ibn Salum al-Halabi, d. 1669), personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV (Muhammad IV, reg. 1648-87). The subject of Book One is diseases and their therapies. The copy was completed by Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad al-Ṭabīb (Hafiz Muhammad al-Tabīb, see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 236v, line 19, transcribed below). To either side of the last line of the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. are the numerals 4 (right) and 2 (left), written in a different ink and perhaps by a different hand and possibly indicating that the copy was completed in 1124/1712-13. Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-6): And after that, the science of medicine is a sea with no stability and a vast and difficult-to-reach sea Dust, and its origins and branches were recorded by the Greek sages The Latin doctors have countless journeys, and then the successors are great men Doctors (!) of Islam detailed these principles in appropriate detail, taking care and consideration... Ends (f. 236v, lines 9-15): ... The adjective is sufuf, so it is a shuktra, a mourner of half an ounce Mistletoe or qaytan cardonbaditi, one and a half dirhams Drink from one dirham to two dirhams per drink The white one stays on that for a while and is watered [...] dermatology such as foam and asarone Celery and more Done Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 236v, lines 19-21): His poor supplication to God Almighty, Hafez Muhammad the physician Praise be to God Almighty and prayers be upon His Prophet Muhammad and his family And all his companions

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 324, pp. 239-40

Edinme Kaynağı Purchased from Oskar Rescher (1884-1972), 10 May 1930

Köken Sharaf Muḥammad ‘Ishqī Beg (شرف محمد عشقي بيك): his inscription in Ottoman Turkish, with date 7 Muḥarram 1232/27 November 1816 (f. 1r).

Seçilmiş kaynakça Studies: Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 182-84 Ullmann, Manfred, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1972), pp. 248