Author
Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Bahrām ibn Muḥammad al-Qalānisī al-Samarqandī
Publication Date
1 Friday II 988 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
235 x 170 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 2805, ff 1v-110v
Record ID
vdc_100066151154.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1 Friday II 988 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Formulary or pharmacopoeia by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Bahrām ibn Muḥammad al-Qalānisī al-Samarqandī (Badr al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Bahram ibn Muhammad al-Qalānsi al-Samarqandī, fl. 1194) divided into forty-nine chapters (chapter). The chapters are listed with their titles in the preface (f. 2r-2v).
The copy was completed on 1 Jumādá II 988/14 July 1580 by ‘Abd Allāh ibn Maulānā ‘Arab Kaḥḥāl (Abdullah ibn Maulānā Arab Kahal, see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 110v, lines 13-14, transcribed below).
Begins (fol. 1v, lines 2-3):
Praise be to God, the Wise, the Omnipotent, the Mighty, the Powerful, the One who is unique in eternity, the One in eternity, the Good in the secrets, the All-Seeing in the consciences.
Who brought us out of nothingness into existence by His grace and placed over us a canopy of its height and set up for us the standard of His justice...
Ends (f. 110v, lines 8-11):
... A bear's hair is taken from its tail and placed on the ear
If a person drinks wine, he does not become intoxicated as long as the hair is on his ear, said Abdullah Ibn Gabriel
In his selections of the natures and properties of animals, this has been examined
It reduces sugar very much, and God knows best
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 110v, lines 11-17):
... Al-Qarabadin was written from the classification of the imam of the era, the chief of the wise and the role model of the virtuous, Maulana Badr
The religion and religion of Al-Qalanisi, may God have mercy on him, at the hands of Afghar
The servants, Abdullah Ibn Maulana, were as Arab as they were in surprise
The month of Jumada II in the months of the year 988
Oh God, forgive the writer, the reader, and whomever
He looked at the Prophet and his glorious family
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 173, pp. 151-54
Köken
Sidney John Alexander Churchill (سيدنه چرچیل, 1862-1921), British representative at Tehran (1880-94), his inscription, and his seal dated 1297/1879-80 (ff. 1v; seal only on ff. 110v);
Semi-legible seal, without date (f. 110v).
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Qalānisī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad,
Aqrabādhīn al-Qalānisī, ed. by Muḥammad Zuhayr al-Bābā
(Ḥalab: Jāmiʻat Ḥalab, 1983)
Studies:
Fellmann, Irene,
Das Aqrabadin al-Qalanisi: quellenkritische und begriffsanalytische Untersuchungen zur arabisch-pharmazeutischen Literatur
(Beirut: Wiesbaden, 1986)
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 294, 307 and 320
