Author
Shalih ibn Nasser Allah ibn Salloum al-Halabi
Publication Date
14 Āb (August) 1814 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 6905, ff 179r-212v
Record ID
vdc_100070049157.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
14 Āb (August) 1814 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Treatise on Paracelsian iatrochemistry by Ṣāliḥ ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (Salih ibn Nasrallah ibn Salum al-Halabi, d. 1669), personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV (Muhammad IV, reg. 1648-87), based on the writings of Paracelsus (Paracelsus) German, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, d. 1541), the
Basilica chymica
(Kemia Vasiliqa or Kimia Royal, Fankfurt: 1609) of Oswald Croll (Crollius and Crulius, d. ca 1609), personal physician to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II (reg. 1576–1612), and the writings of the Paracelsian authors Johann Jacob Wecker (d. 1586) and Daniel Sennert (Senartus Germanus, d. 1637).
Contents:
Kitāb al-ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmāwī ta’līf Barākalsūs al-jarmānī
(New Chemical Medicine by Paracelsus the German, ff. 108v-196v);
Kitāb Karūlīyūs
(Book of Crolius, ff. 196v-212r).
A table of contents of both books is found on ff. 179r-180r.
The copy was completed on 14 Āb (August) 1814/Ramaḍān (?) 1229, at Dayr al-Qamar (Lebanon) by Brāhīm walad al-Mu‘allim Līyās al-‘Aqqād (Ibrahim son of al-Muallem Lias al-Aqqad) (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 212r, lines 15-31, transcribed below).
Beginnings (f. 179r, lines 2-3):
The book of new chemical medicine, written by Paracelsus the German, and also by Crolius
It consists of two books, and this book is called Alchemy Fasliqa, meaning Royal Alchemy. The first book is indexed
Ends (f. 212v, lines 6-12):
... This effect may be denied by people who say that nature
Arranging and exonerating him, especially if he joins this, believing that he is exonerated from this
The wound is healed with this strange, strange medicine, and nature is revived
So you repair the wound and heal him, but not the other, as they claimed, for they are private
Things are not denied, as the action of this ointment has a special property in it
By mediating the spirit of the world as iron does
In the magnet...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 212v, lines 12-31):
...has been hot
This book is a blessing from the King (!)
Al-Wahhab is, however, even more despicable than his terror
Ubaidullah Ibrahim
The teacher's son, Elias Akkad, resides
Burqatha (?) in Deir el-Qamar has been copied
About his transfer in fourteen
One day a month ago
August of the year one thousand and eight
One hundred and fourteen
Christianity and that
Book to
Copy it
There is no limit to it
In a company
Year 1229
Hijri
In Ramadan
n
Ten
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 325, p. 240
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Source text:
Croll, Oswald,
Osualdi Crolli Veterani Hassi Basilica chymica: continens. Philosophicam propriâ laborum experientiâ confirmatum descriptionem et usum remediorum chymicorum selectissimorum é lumine gratiæ & naturæ desumptorum. In fine libri additus est autoris ejusdem tractatus nouus de signaturis rerum internis
(Francofurti: Apud Claudium Marnium & heredes Joannis Aubrii, 1609)
Studies:
Bachour, Natalia, Oswaldus Crollius und Daniel Sennert im frühneuzeitlichen Istanbul: Studien zur Reception des Paracelsismus im Werk des osmanischen Arztes Sāliḥ b. Naṣrullāh Ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī (Frieburg im Breisgau: Centaurus, 2012)
Savage-Smith, Emilie, 'Drug Therapy of Eye Diseases in Seventeenth-Century Islamic Medicine: The Influence of the "New Chemistry" of the Paracelsians', Pharmacy in History 29.1 (1987), 3-2
Shefer, Miri, 'An Ottoman Physician and His Social and Intellectual Milieu: The Case of Salih bin Nasrullah Ibn Sallum', Studia Islamica n.s. 1 (2011), 133-58
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 182-4
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1972), p. 248
