Author
a later hand. The copy is defective at end
Publication Date
15th century (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Place
Yemen -
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
280 x 200 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 3738
Record ID
vdc_100061762550.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
15th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Alphabetical dictionary of simple drugs drawing on the works of earlier medical texts a list of which and the abbreviations used to cite them is given on f. 1v, lines 7-14. In this copy the text is attributed to the Rasūlid sultan of Yemen al-Malik al-Ashraf ‘Umar (II) ibn Yūsuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Alī ibn Rasūl (الملك الأشرف عمر بن يوسف بن عمر بن علي بن رسول, reg. 1295-6, see f. 99r, lines 12-13). Other copies attribute it to his father al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Yūsuf (I) ibn ‘Umar (الملك المظفر يوسف بن عمر, reg. 1250-95) or to both the father and son (see Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
[1970], p. 285).
The treatise is divided into two parts (جزؤان): letters
alif-ṣād
(ff. 1v-99r), and
ḍād-yā’
(ff. 99r-153v, defective at end). Folios 143-153 are of different paper and copied by a later hand. The copy is defective at end, breaking off abruptly in the penultimate entry (= ed. al-Damyāṭī [2000], p. 404, line 10).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
الحمد لله أوجد الأشياء بحكمته وابتدع المخلوقات إظهارًا لقدرة وفضل
الإنسان على سائر الحيوانات برحمته وجعل له دواء يقيه الداء بمشيئته وصلى
الله على رسوله سيدنا محمد خيرته من خليقته وعلى أصحابه ...
Ends (f. 153v, lines 29-30, defective at end):
... ينبوت ع ح هو خرنوب المـ[...]
وقيل إنه الخرنوب النبطي ومن الينبوت نوع (؟) شجرة عظيمـ[ـة] كـ[ـشجرة] التفاح الكبيرة ورقها أصغر من ورق التفاح ولها ثمر أصغر من ورق الـ[...]
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Rieu, Charles,
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum
(London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 807, p. 547
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from Eduard Glaser (1855-1908), 13 July 1889
Köken
Inscription recording the death of ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Murayṣī (?) (عبد الرحمن المريصي [؟]) on 3 Muḥarram 1008?/26 July 1599? (some digits from the year may be obscured by repair paper, f. 1r);
Ibrāhīm ibn ‘Alī (إبراهيم بن علي): his inscription, with date Jumādá I 1230/April-May 1815 (f. 1r);
‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm (عبد الرحمن بن إبراهيم): his inscription, with date 1241/1825-6 (f. 1r and 99r).
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Yūsuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Alī ibn Rasūl al-Ghassānī al-Turkumānī,
al-Mu‘tamad fī al-adwīyah al-mufradah
, ed. by Maḥmūd ‘Umar al-Dumyāṭī (Bayrūt: Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmīyah, 2000)
Study:
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 285
