Author
Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali ibn Abi Sadiq al-Nisaburi
Publication Date
14th century (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
250 x 185 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 11613
Record ID
vdc_100052416519.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
14th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Volume One (Part One) of a commentary by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī (Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali ibn Abi Sadiq al-Naysaburi, d. ca 1068) on the
Questions on Medicine for Students
(Issues in Medicine for Learners) by Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (Abu Zayd Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Abadi, d. 873).
An illuminated title page (f. 3r) gives the title as
Kitāb shared ḥ masā’il Ḥunayn
(A book explaining the issues of Hunayn). Ibn Abī Ṣādiq discusses the forms of the title on f. 4r, lines 1-3. The title page also names the manuscript's patron as Yūḥannā (John).
The commentary is divided into ten chapters following the divisions of the work commented upon. A list of the chapters and their contents appears on f. 4r-4v.
A note on a slip of paper has been bound into the volume between ff. 29 and 30. Below the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 166v) is a collation note signed by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥakīm.
The commentary contains one table illuminated in gold, blue and red which contains information on the hot, cold and balanced temperaments (f. 144r).
Begins (f. 3v, lines 2-5):
The virtuous sage Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Sadiq al-Naysaburi, may God have mercy on him, said: Praise be to God, praise that acknowledges the verse, and is thankful for His blessings.
And may his prayers be upon all his prophets. The masters of knowledge in the medical industry have colluded
However, the one who desires this knowledge must begin his learning with the book Al-Mas’a’il by Hunayn
Ibn Ishaq because he made it an introduction for those who learn to...
Ends (f. 166v, lines 1-2):
Vocabulary from cooked food, especially what is extracted from animal parts, so they call it
Alfazazhar
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 166v, lines 3-5):
The first part of the book has been completed
Explanation of the issues of Hunayn by Ibn Abi Sadiq
God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs
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 46, pp. 38-9
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from S. H. Taqizadeh, 10 October 1936
Köken
Inscription without date, naming the book erroneously as
Ta‘līqāt al-Qānūn al-ṭibb
(تعليقات القانون الطب) and giving the author as Abū Ṣādiq al-Baghdādī (أبو صادق البغدادي), and claiming that it was bought at Baghdad for the sum of 5,000 dinars (f. 2r);
Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Huṣnī: his seal, with only last two digits of date (40) legible (f. 2r);
Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm (محمد بن إبراهيم),
nisbah
illegible: his inscription with date 941/1534-5 (f. 3r);
Ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad (ابن محمد إسماعيل شمس الدين محمد), rest of name illegible: his seal, with date 1220/1805-6? (f. 3v, 4r, 11r, 32r, and 166v [the last two being the clearest impressions]);
Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī (محمد الحسيني): his seal dated 1174/1760-1 (ff. 3v and 166v), with inscription (f. 3v only) mostly illegible due to water damage;
Ibn ‘Aḍud al-Dīn Mas‘ūd al-Ḥalabī (?) Muḥammad Mu’ammar al-Ṭabīb (ابن عضد الدين مسعود الحلبي محمد مؤمر الطبيب): his inscription, and seal with date 1045/1635-6 (f. 166v).
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition of text commented upon:
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī,
al-Masā’il fī al-ṭibb lil-muta‘allimīn
, ed. by Muḥammad ‘Alī Abū Rayyān, Mursī Muḥammad ‘Arab and Jallāl Muḥammad Mūsá (al-Iskandarīyah: Dār al-Jāmi‘āt al-Maṣrīyah, 1978)
Translations of text commented upon:
Wilson, Jan E. and Samuel Dinkha,
Hunayn ibn Ishaq's 'Questions on Medicine for Students': Transcription and Translation of the Oldest Extant Syriac Version (Vat. Syr. 192)
(Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010)
Ghalioungui, Paul and Galal M. Moussa,
Questions on medicine for Scholars by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq; translated into English, with a preface and historical note, by Paul Ghalioungui, from a critical edition by Galal M. Moussa of the ninth century Arabic text, "al Masa'il fi al-tibb lil muta'allimin"
(Cairo: A R E Al-Ahram Center for Scientific Translations, 1980)
Studies:
Sezgin, Fuat,
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums
, vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970). pp. 250-51
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 160
