Author
Abū Bakr Ḥāmid ibn Samajūn
Publication Date
13th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
235 x 165 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 11614
Record ID
vdc_100048131860.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
13th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Part Two (Part Two) of a multi-volume work on materia medica by Abū Bakr Ḥāmid ibn Samajūn (Abu Bakr Hamid ibn Samajūn, fl. ca 1000). The work, also known as the
Compendium of Statements of the Ancient and Modern Physicians and Philosophers on Simple Drugs
(The collection of the sayings of the ancients and the speakers of doctors and philosophers on individual medicines), is arranged alphabetically following the ancient Semitic
abjad
order. order. This volume contains the sections on letters
zāy
to
lām
.
Letter
Zāy
(letter Zay, ff. 1v- 47v);
Letter
'Ḥā'
(letter ha, ff. 47v-114r);
Letter
Ṭā’
(letter ta', ff. 114v-137v);
Letter
Yā’
(letter yaa, ff. 137v-150v);
Letter
Kāf
(letter kaf, ff. 150v-186r);
Letter
Lām
(letter L, ff. 186r-201r).
At the head of the title page (f. 1r), a reader has mistakenly added the title
The Book of What Cannot be Ignored by the Physician
(The Book of What the Doctor Cannot Be Ignorant of), which belongs to a later treatise on materia medica by Yūsuf ibn Ismā‘īl ibn Ilyās al-Khūwaīyī al-Baghdādī al-Kutubī (Yūsuf ibn Ismail ibn Ilyas al-Khoei al-Baghdadi al-Kutubi, d. 1353).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 1-5):
Part II of single drugs
The letter Zai is ginger. Abu Hanifa al-Dinouri said ginger
Of what grows in the Arab Levant in the land of Oman, it has veins that run through the land and do not (?) become trees
Someone who saw it told me that its plant is a head plant, and they eat it fresh, just as they eat people
Beans...
Ends (f. 201r, lines 2-5):
The other type is made of red copper
He smeared it with boys’ urine, which was crushed while it was hot, and it was even worse
Harder, more gentle, and less crying than the surgeries he had
The [...] pain
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 201r, lines 6-10):
The letter Lām is completed and followed by it
In the third part is a letter
The meem, God willing, and its beginning
Musk
Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and may His prayers be upon our Master Muhammad and his family
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 92, p. 87
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Fulton, A. S., 'Arabic Medical Manuscripts',
The British Museum Quarterly
11.2 (1937), pp. 81-83
Käs, Fabian,
Die Mineralien in der arabischen Pharmakognosie: eine Konkordanz zur mineralischen Materia medica der klassischen arabischen Heilmittelkunde nebst überlieferungsgeschichtlichen Studien
(Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2010), pp. 58-61
Sezgin, Fuat,
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums
, vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 316-17
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 267
