Author
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī
Publication Date
14th and 15th century (CE, Gregorian)
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
Record ID
vdc_100056123349.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
14th and 15th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Parts eight, nine, and 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).
The volume comprises two separate codicological units (manuscripts):
Parts Eight and Nine (ff. 1r-274v);
Part Ten, ff. 275r-415v.
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
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831
Gruplandırıldığı Yer
al-Juz’ al-thāmin wa-al-juz’ al-tāsi‘ min al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الجزء الثامن والجزء التاسع من الحاوي في الطب Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
548 images
Ref: Arundel Or 14, ff 1r-274v
al-Juz’ al-‘āshir min kitāb al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الجزء العاشر من كتاب الحاوي في الطب Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
282 images
Ref: Arundel Or 14, ff 275r-415v
Köken
al-Dimashqī (الدمشقي), rest of name unclear: his inscription, with date Friday 28 Ṣafar 884/21 May 1479 (f. 1v);
Ismā‘īl (إسمعيل), rest of name erased: his inscription, with date 727/1326-27, rest of date erased (f. 3r);
Inscription, mostly erased, with date 711/1311-12 (f. 3r);
Inscription, with date 4 Rabī‘ I 884/26 May 1479 (f. 3r);
Further owners' inscriptions erased and illegible (f. 3r);
The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 3r);
‘Abd al-Wāḥid al-Yahūdī (عبد الواحد اليهودي): his inscription, without date (f. 3v);
‘Uthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Hishām (عثمن بن محمد بن هشام): his inscription, without date (f. 275r);
? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
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
