Author
Raḍī al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alī ibn Mūsá ibn ibn Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāwūs al-‘Alawī al-Fāṭimī
Publication Date
28 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1092 (AH)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
165 x 85 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 11314
Record ID
vdc_100024394061.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
28 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1092 (AH)
Notes
Handbook on health and medicine for use while traveling or at home, divided into 14 chapters (sections) by Raḍī al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alī ibn Mūsá ibn ibn Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāwūs al-‘Alawī al-Fāṭimī (Radi al-Din Abu Al-Qasim Ali bin Musa bin Jaafar bin Muhammad bin Muhammad Al-Tawus Al-Alawi Al-Fatimi; d. 1266).
The copy was completed on 28 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1092/9 January 1682 by Muḥammad ibn Ja‘far ibn Ḥājjī Sulṭān ‘Alī al-Ahdab (Muhammad bin Jaafar bin Haji Sultan Ali Al-Ahdab), who completed the collation on 7 Muḥarram 1093/16 January 1682 (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 138r, lines 9-17, and collation note, both transcribed below).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-10):
Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and may His blessings be upon the Master of Messengers
Muhammad and his pure family, says our Lord, the best and most perfect
The most devout ascetic, the worshipper, the marabout, the mujahid, the one with virtues
The virtues, hands, and merits of the pure captain are an honor
The family is the leader of the leaders of Abu Talib’s family, among relatives and foreigners
Radi al-Din Jamal al-Arifin, the cornerstone of Islam and Muslims
Abu Al-Qasim Ali bin Musa bin Jaafar bin Muhammad bin Muhammad Al-Tawoos
Alawite Fatimi, may God protect Majdi and prolong his life
The honorable...
Ends (f. 138r, lines 6-9):
...and certainty in the Lord of the Worlds and belief
The Master of Messengers and trust in His goodness, promises, wisdom and mercy
One of the most powerful means for his protection, care, nourishment, and may God bless him
On the best of his creation, Muhammad the Prophet and his pure family...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 138r, lines 9-17):
...It has been retouched
At the hands of the lesser, weak, sinful, sinful, and hopeful servant
To the Most Forgiving, the Rich [Muhammad bin Jaafar bin]*
Haji Sultan Ali Al-Ahdab Hamid
Praying and submitting, and that was it
Friday the twenty-eighth
The holy month of Dhul-Hijjah
Year 1092
It is a copy of himself
*Words deleted
Collation note (f. 138r, next to
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
):
The interview amounted to ignorance
And energy is nothing but what has deviated from it
Sight is in gatherings, the last of which is a day
Saturday, the seventh of the holy month of Muharram
The year one thousand ninety-third
Hijri
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Hamarneh, Sami,
Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library
(Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Items 56, 59 and 212, pp. 49-50, 53 and 181-82 (mistakenly catalogued as three separate texts)
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from ‘Abbās Aḥmad Āl Kāshif al-Ghiṭā’, 11 July 1931
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Ibn Ṭāwūs, ‘Alī ibn Mūsá,
al-Amān min akhṭār al-asfār wa-al-azmān
(Bayrūt: Mu’asasat Āl al-Bayt li-Iḥyā’ al-Turāth, 1989)
