Author
the physician and translator Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī
Publication Date
late 18th-early 19th century (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 12150, ff 58r-139v
Record ID
vdc_100141479579.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
late 18th-early 19th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
A commentary on the
Kitāb taqdimat al-maʿrifah li-Abuqrāṭ
(كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لأبقراط), a translation of the
Prognosticon
of Hippocrates (Hippocrates, d. ca 370 BC), probably by the physician and translator Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (Abu Zayd Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Abadi, d. 873).
The text of the commentary was set down in writing by Badr al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Qāḍī al-Baʿlabakkī (Badr al-Din al-Muzaffar ibn al-Qadi al-Baalbaki, d. ca 630/1232) based on the lectures given by his teacher ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʻAlī Muhadhdhab al-Dīn al-Dakhwār (Abd al-Rahim ibn Ali Muhdhib al-Din al-Dakhwār, 1169/70-1230, ff. 58r, line 4-58v, line 6), and for this reason authorship is sometimes attributed to al-Baʾlabakkī.
The commentary is divided into three chapters (
maqālāt
), as mentioned in the introduction (f. 58v, lines 6-8):
First chapter on prognosis of diseases (المقالة الأولى في تقدمة معرفة الأمراض; ff. 58v-79v);
Second chapter on dropsy (المقالة الثانية في الاستسقاء; ff. 79v-119v);
Third chapter on fevers (المقالة الثالثة في الحميات, ff. 119v-139r).
The text is followed by a recipe for a cinnamon electuary (معجون القرف), written in a different hand (f. 139v).
Beginnings (f. 58r, lines 2-7):
يقول العبد الفقير إلى رحمة ربه الكريم الشيخ الإمام العالم الكامل
الصدر الخبير الكامل الرئيس بدر الدين مظفر ابن قاضي بعلبك
The doctor, may God make him realize his hopes in this world and the hereafter, when I read
على شيخي الإمام العالم مهذب الدين عبد الرحيم بن علي الطبيب
رحمه الله كتاب تقدمة المعرفة لإبقراط اجتهد علي غاية
الاجتهاد...
Ends (f. 139r, lines 12-17):
You should not be distracted by the name of a disease...
الأمراض لم نذكره في هذا الكتاب لأن الغرض معرفة الأمراض
Evidence and signs of diseases, if you know them
وحققتها قدرت أن تحكم بما يأول حال المريض إليه من السلامة
والعطب وينبغي لمن أراد معرفة هذه الصناعة
الطبية يكون فاضلا خيرا ويطلب من الله العون
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 8, pp. 5-6
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Editions:
Ibn al-Qāḍī al-Baʿlabakkī,
Sharḥ Taqdimat al-maʻrifah li-Abuqrāṭ
, ed. by Muḥammad Yāsir Zakūr (Bayrūt: Muʼassasat al-Risālah Nashirūn, 2019)
al-Dakhwār,
Sharḥ taqdimat al-maʿrifah lil-Dakhwār
, ed. by Ibn al-Qāḍī al-Baʿlabakkī, Māhir ʿAbd al-Qādir Muḥammad (al-Iskandarīyah: Dār al-Maʻrifah al-Jāmiʻīyah, 2000)
Edition of source text:
Klamroth, M., 'Über die Auszüge aus griechischen Schriftstellern bei al-Jaʿqūbī. I. Hippokrates',
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenl
ändischen Gesellschaft
, 40 (1886), pp. 189-233
Studies:
Joosse, N. Peter and Peter Pormann, ‘ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baġdādī’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ ‘Prognostic’: A Preliminary Exploration’, in
Epidemics in Context: Greek Commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic Tradition,
Scientia Graeco-Arabica, 8 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012), pp. 251-84 on pp. 257-58
Joosse, N. Peter, 'A Newly-Discovered Commentary on the Hippocratic Prognostic by Barhebraeus: Its Contents and Its Place within the Arabic Taqdimat al-maʿrifa Tradition',
Oriens
, 41 (2013), pp. 499-523
