Author
the use in the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
Publication Date
28 Ramaḍān 1087 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Place
Egypt -
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
209 x 150 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 5931
Record ID
vdc_100032176486.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
28 Ramaḍān 1087 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Notes
The manuscript was produced in Egypt as confirmed by the use in the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 184v, lines 7-8, transcribed below) of the Coptic date alongside the
hijrī
year. The copy was completed on 28 Hatūr 1393 (of the Coptic era)/28 Ramaḍān 1087/4 December 1676. A small note below the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
gives the subsequent (collation?) date 18 Ṭūbah [1394] (of the Coptic era)/[29] Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1088/23 January 1678.
The manuscript was probably collected by the Scottish surgeon and naturalist Patrick Russell (1726-1805) during his service as physician to the
Levant
A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Company
factory
An East India Company trading post.
in Aleppo (1753-71). While in Aleppo, Russell studied the outbreaks of plague in 1760-62, so may have been interested in the recipe (f. 1r) for pills (حبوب), five of which were to be taken in the morning, before breakfast, during plague season (في أيام الوباء). This recipe is said to have been received from Ibn al-Ḥākhām ('son of the Rabbi') Mūsá on 7 Rajab 1138/11 March 1726 (see Custodial History).
Contents:
(1) al-‘Aynzarbī (العينزربي),
al-Kāfī fī ṣinā‘at al-ṭibb
(الكافي في صناعة الطب; ff. 2r-172v);
(2) al-Qawṣūnī (القوصوني),
Zād al-masīr fī ʿilāj al-bawāsīr
(زاد المسير في علاج البواسير; ff. 173r-185r).
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 453, p. 223
Hamarneh, Sami,
Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library
(Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 153 and 309, pp. 129-31 and 229
Edinme Kaynağı
From the legacy of Patrick Russell (1726-1805), surgeon and naturalist
Gruplandırıldığı Yer
al-Kāfī fī ṣinā‘at al-ṭibb الكافي في صناعة الطب ‘Aynzarbī, ‘Adnān ibn Naṣr عينزربي، عدنان بن نصر
342 images
Ref: Add MS 5931, ff 2r-172v
Zād al-masīr fī ʿilāj al-bawāsīr زاد المسير في علاج البواسير Qawṣūnī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad قوصوني، محمد بن محمد
25 images
Ref: Add MS 5931, ff 173r-185r
Köken
Ibrāhīm Efendī Murād al-Ḥanafī (إبراهيم أفندي مراد الحنفي): his inscription, without date (f. 1r);
Medical recipe apparently in hand of Ibrāhīm Efendī Murād al-Ḥanafī (إبراهيم أفندي مراد الحنفي), dated 7 Rajab 1138/11 March 1726 (f. 1r);
Yūsuf wuld Jirgī wuld Buṭrus Dīyah (?) al-Ṭabīb (يوسف ولد جرجي ولد بطرس ديه [؟] الطبيب): his inscription, dated 15 Aylūl (September) 1756 (f. 1r).
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Hawgood, BJ, 'The life and viper of Dr Patrick Russell MD FRS (1727–1805): Physician and naturalist',
Toxicon: official journal of the International Society on Toxinology
32.11 (1994), pp. 1295–304
Ullmann,
Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 161 and 180-81
