Author
Muḥammad Ibn ‘Alī al-Isfarā’inī
Publication Date
18 Rabī‘ II 1043 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 5860, ff 1r-135v
Record ID
vdc_100066663086.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
18 Rabī‘ II 1043 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Treatise on drugs by Muḥammad Ibn ‘Alī al-Isfarā’inī (Muhammad bin Ali al-Isfarāni, see f. 3v, line 10), according to the spelling of the
nisba
Given in the manuscript and followed by Brockelmann (GALS II, 592), who gives the author a floruit date of 1543. Kaḥḥālah (III, 552, no. 14963) gives the author’s full name as Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī al-Nīsābūrī al-Isfarāyīnī (Fakhr al-Din Muhammad bin Ali al-Naysaburi al-Isfarāyini), and gives him a floruit date of 1349.
The work is divided into a preface, two chapters (two sections), each subdivided into sections (chapters), and a conclusion (conclusion), and a list of the chapters and sections is given on ff. 4v-5r:
Preface (ff. 3v-5r);
Chapter One: Simple Drugs and Foods, five sections
Chapter Two: Compound Drugs, seven sections.
Conclusion (Conclusion, ff. 132v-134r).
The majority of the work (ff. 5v-95r) is taken up by an alphabetical list of materia medica presented in ninety synoptic tables.
The copy was completed on 18 Rabī‘ II 1043/22 October 1633 by Ibn ‘Abd Allāh Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shīrāzī (Ibn Abdullah Abu Al-Hasan Al-Shirazi, see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 134r, lines 4-5 and 8-9, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 3v, lines 1-3):
Praise be to God who revealed traces of wisdom in minerals, legumes, trees, and deposited various types of benefits
In the roots, branches, and flowers, and decorate trees and plants with leaves and seeds
And fruits and types of medicines grow in valleys, mountains and seas...
Ends (f. 134r, lines 1-3):
... expel wasps
He flees from the smell of sulfur and the smell of inflorescences and garlic and does not come near
From marshmallow preparation, hibiscus juice, and proven oil...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 134r, lines 3-10):
...The void has occurred
This honorable copy was edited on the eighteenth of Rabi’ al-Thani in the year
Forty-third after the thousandth of the Prophet’s migration
He has the most pure prayers and salutations
I fuel it and grow it at the hands of the least of creation, but rather the nothing in me
The truth is Ibn Abdullah Abu Al-Hassan
Al-Shirazi, thank God
Praying
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards,
A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894
(London: British Museum, 1912), p. 46
Hamarneh, Sami,
Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library
(Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 275, p. 213
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Brockelmann, Carl,
Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur: Zweite den Supplementbänden angepasste Auflage
(GALS), 3 vols (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996), vol. 2, p. 592.
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), p. 201
Kaḥḥālah, ʻUmar Riḍā,
Muʻjam al-muʾallifīn: tarājim muṣannifī al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah
, 4 vols (Bayrūt: Muʾassasat al-Risālah, 1993), vol. 3, p. 552, (no. 14963)
