Author
Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn
Publication Date
16 Rajab 611 (H, Hijri Kamari)
Publication Place
Jerusalem -
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
237 x 163 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 3811
Record ID
vdc_100023384118.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
16 Rajab 611 (H, Hijri Kamari)
Notes
Treatise on embryology, obstetrics, paediatrics and psychology by Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (Abu al-Hasan ibn Hibat Allah ibn al-Husayn; d. 1101), personal physician to the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī (Al-Muqtadi, reg. 1056-1094).
The text is divided into fifty chapters (sections), and ff. 1r-4v contain a table listing their contents.
The copy was completed in Jerusalem on 16 Rajab 611/21 November 1214 by Mūsá ibn ‘Imrān al-Isrā’īlī (Musa ibn Imran al-Isra’ili; see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 121v, lines 10-14, transcribed below). It is defective at the beginning, missing some brief introductory material before the table of contents.
There is a short unfoliated note bound into the volume between ff. 104 and 105.
Begins (f. 1r, lines 3-7):
The number of this article [...]
Fifty chapters
Chapter one
In the cause for which nature was made a species
Man is divided into male and female
Ends (f. 121v, lines 4-7):
Since we have explained the presentation of this article, let us remove (?)
Talk about it on this site and take off (?) that
Praise be to God and praise be to Him, as it began at its opening
He is sufficient for us and He is the best disposer of affairs
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 121v, lines 8-14):
The article has been completed, and I thank God alone a lot
It's called the creation of man
He wrote in Al-Quds Al-Sharif, a wedding [...]
The poor servant wrote it to the mercy of God Almighty
Musa bin Imran Al-Israeli in Jerusalem
It was completed on the fourteenth day of the sixteenth month
Rajab in the year six hundred and eleven. Praise be to God and peace be upon him
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Köken
Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū Rayyūn (?), physician (محمد بن محمد أبو ريون [؟] الطبيب): his inscription, undated (f. 1r)
ilgili birincil kaynaklar
Other copies:
Cambridge Browne Or. MS P. 4
Oxford Bodleian MS Pococke 66
Tübingen MS M a VI 73
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn,
Kitāb khalq al-insān
, ed. by Kamāl al-Sāmarā’ī (Baghdād: Dār al-shu’ūn al-thaqāfīyah al-‘āmah, 1990)
Study:
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 160-61
