Author
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī
Publication Date
15th century
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
215 x 150 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Arundel Or 14, ff 275r-415v
Record ID
vdc_100065290163.0x000002
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
15th century
Notes
Part Ten of the
Kitāb al-Ḥāwī
(Book of Al-Hawi,
Libre continues
), an encyclopaedic medical compendium by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakaria al-Rāzī; d. ca 925).
Beginnings (f. 275, lines 2-6):
While it facilitates childbirth, expels the fetus and placenta, and prevents
Pregnancy, managing postpartum, midwifery, and signs of hardship
Childbirth and its ease, miscarriage, and the illness called rha
It is the false rope and the ills that are exposed from
Severity of labor
Ends (ff. 415r, line 17-415v, line 2):
...I saw
A man developed dysuria and tenesmus in his heel, so he died on the seventh day
Or something like that.
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 415v, lines 3-7):
Part ten has been completed, praise be to God
This is followed by the following statement in the chapter
It is called Diabetes and dripping and running of urine
Blab (?) wanted it and did not burn it [and] do not spit [in] the bladder
And Al-Azioma (?) Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Cureton, William and Charles Rieu,
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens
(London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 446, pp. 221
Hamarneh, Sami,
Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library
(Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 63, pp. 55
Köken
‘Uthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Hishām (عثمن بن محمد بن هشام): his inscription, without date (f. 275r).
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā,
Kitāb al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb
, ed. by ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bukhārī et al., 23 volumes in 25 (Ḥaydar Ābād al-Dakan: Maṭbaʻat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʻārif al-ʻUthmānīyah, 1958-81)
Latin translation:
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā,
Liber Helchauy. idest continens artem medicine & dicta predecesso[rum] in hac facultate conmendato[rum]
, ed. by Hieronymus Salius Fauentinus (Impressum Venetijs: Mandato & sumptibus Heredum Octauiani Scoti Modoetiensis per Bonetum Locatellum Bergomensem presbyterum, 1506)
Studies:
Iskandar, A.Z.,
A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library
(London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1967), pp. 1-26
Sezgin, Fuat,
Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums
, vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 278-80
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 130-31
