Author
Nafīs ibn ʿIwaḍ al-Kirmānī
Publication Date
Shawwāl 981 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
230 x 137 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Arundel Or 35
Record ID
vdc_100088053813.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
Shawwāl 981 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
A copy, incomplete at the beginning, of a commentary by Nafīs ibn ʿIwaḍ al-Kirmānī (Nafis ibn Awad al-Kirmanī; d. approximately 1449) on
Causes and Indications
(الأسباب والعلامات; see Or. 5687), a medical reference work on the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of diseases compiled by Najib al-Din Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn 'Alī ibn 'Umar al-Samarqandī (Najib al-Din Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Omar al-Samarqundi, d.
Al-Kirmānī completed this commentary in 827/1424 and dedicated it to his Timurid patron Ulugh Beg (Algh Bik, d. 1449), governor of Samarqand from 812-853/1409-1449 (see f. 346r, lines 20-22, transcribed below).
The present copy was completed in late Shawwāl 981/January-February 1574, by the scribe Aḥmad ibn Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥijāzī (Ahmad ibn Badr al-Din al-Hijazi; see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 346r, lines 18-19, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 1r, lines 1-3):
I took the skin from him because of the dissolution of the soul and the snow that flowed to him
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الحرارة فيه
Ends (f. 346r, lines 20-22):
The narrator said that after completing all the explanation, I seek Allah and good success in the last journey, I ended the seventh and twentieth year with goodness and reward
And praise be to Allah in all Muhammad, our knowledge is from him and we do not know him
and on his family, companions and the poor of his nation
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 346r, lines 18-19):
...The book was written by Allah, the king of Wahab, in the hands of poor Ahmad
Ibn Badr al-Din al-Hijazi in the last Shawwal of the Sunnah, Uthmanin and Sa'ma'a
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 594, pp. 224
Hamarneh, Sami,
Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library
(Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 185 , p. 160.
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831
Köken
The Royal Society, London: its book-plate with the pencil inscription 'Plut. CCXVII D'.
Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition
Nafīs ibn ʿIwaḍ, al-Kirmānī,
Sharḥ al-Asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt maʿ ḥāshiyathi al-jadīdah al-musammah bi-Ḥall al-muʿḍalāt
, ed. Muḥammad Ṣādiq ‘Alī Lakhnawī; commentary by Sayyid, Ḥakīm Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, 2 vols (Lakhnaw: publisher unknown, 1904-1905)
Study
Schlein, Deborah, 'In the Ḥakīm’s Own Hand: A Study of Colophons and Ownership Notes of the al-Asbāb wa-l-ʿalāmāt Commentary Tradition in India', Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 9 (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 264-71
