Author
Abū al-Ḥasan Sa‘īd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn
Publication Date
19 Friday II 567 AH)
Publication Place
Baghdad -
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
ara,syr
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
250 x 190 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 3810
Record ID
vdc_100046324169.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
19 Friday II 567 AH)
Notes
Concise handbook of medicine by Abū al-Ḥasan Sa‘īd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (Abu al-Hasan Saʿid ibn Habballah ibn al-Husayn; d. 1101), personal physician to the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī (al-Muqtadi, reg. 1056-1094) to whom this work is dedicated (f. 3v, line 9). The title of the text is often abbreviated to
Kitab al-Mughnī fī al-Tibb
(Kitab al-Mughni in Medicine).
The text is arranged by illness, and each one is assigned to a table. Each table takes up a page, and all pages of the text except for ff. 4R, 3V and 105R containing tables. The tables are divided into four cells containing information about (1) the illness (patient); (2) its cause; (3) its symptoms (offer); and (4) the regimen (medication) recommended for its cure, often including a prescription (adjective).
The copy was completed at Baghdad by Mattá ibn Hibat Allāh ibn ‘Abd Allāh (Matti ibn Habballah ibn Abdullah) on Wednesday 19 Jumāda II 567/16 February The AH transcription date of 19 Jumādá II 567 equals 27 Shubāṭ 1483 of the Seleucid era. The scribe produced his copy from a copy produced by a student of the author, and he collated his copy with the author's own draft copy (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 105r, lines 14-19, transcribed below).
A table of contents and other medical notes by a later hand are found on ff. 1r-2v.
F. 106r contains a computus table for reckoning the date of Easter using the Roman or Syro-Macedonian calendar of the Seleucid Era. An accompanying Arabic note written vertically on f. 105v describes the use of the table and is signed by Ilīyā the Metropolitan of Bājarmī (إليا مطران باجرمي), Bājarmī being the Arabic rendering of the Syriac Beth Garmai (ܒܝܬ ܓܪ̈ܡܝ). This Arabic note states that the table begins with Easter 1490 of the Seleucid era (574 AH/AD 1179), so the note can be dated to shortly before this time. At the head of f. 105v, above the Arabic text, is a table in Syriac relating to the calculation of Christian feast days. The heading of the first column mentions Easter, while Christmas, Epiphany, and Good Friday are mentioned in the line of Syriac text beneath the table.
Ff. 106v-108v contains various medical notes, many by the same later hand that wrote the table of contents and medical notes on ff. 1r-2v. On f. 106v there is a prayer for the physician Abū al-Khayr ibn ‘Īsá (Abu al-Khair ibn 'Isa al-Muttabbab), perhaps the father of personal physician to the Abbasid caliph al-Nāṣir (reg. 575-622/1180-1225; see Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah, vol. 1, p.
Staining visible on ff. 21v and 22r give evidence that the manuscript was previously bound in a binding with a flap.
Begins (f. 3v, lines 2-4):
Shaykh al-Jalil Abu al-Hassan Saeed ibn Haballah ibn al-Hassan al-Tabib said
الفيلسوف [...]ـه اللسان وثبت برهانه في الجنان
Praise be to the Creator of the heavens who gave knowledge to mankind.
Ends (f. 105r, lines 13-14):
... and treat the patient with the treatment of mumbarsmin and with this treatment he treats the stomach of the jaw[... ...]ـذستر. Treatment of injection ulcers
and tin cure syrup. Allah is the Beneficent by His Messiah and His Power.
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 105r, lines 14-20):
Then the book, and praise be to Allah, was blessed and copied
Some introduction of the author and the interview with the original constitution
Book of Matthew ibn Haba Allah ibn Abdullah Praise be to Allah
And empty of the copy of the fourteenth day of the twenty-first day of Jamadi al-Akhrah
In the city of peace in the year seven weeks and six months and in July twenty-four days a month
100,000 and 13 years of Alexander the Great (!)
والسلم
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Köken
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
Library: its seal, dated 30 March 1910 (f. 2r)
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Saʻīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn,
al-Mughnī fī tadbīr al-amrāḍ wa-maʻrifat al-ʻilal wa-al-aʻrād
̣, ed. by Muḥammad Yāsir Zakkūr (Jiddah: Dār al-Minhāj lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2011)
Studies:
Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah,
ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ
, ed. August Müller, 2 vols (Königsberg i. Pr.: Selbstverlag, 1882-1884)
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 160-61
