Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World"This is a large private notebook or commonplace book into which al-Rāzī placed extracts from earlier authors regarding diseases and therapies and also recorded interpretations and clinical cases from his own experience. Following al-Rāzī's deathIbn al-'Amida statesman and scholar appointed vizir to the Persian ruler Rukn al-Dawlah in 327 AH/939 CEpurchased from al-Rāzī's sister the notes comprising the Ḥāwī. He then arranged for the pupils of al-Rāzī to put the notes in order and make them available."
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldThis is a large medical compendium written in 782 AH/1380 CE in Ephesus for ’Īsá ibn Muḥammad, the Sultan of Āyidīn. The author was a Turkish physician who spent most of his working life in Cairo where he became ra’is al-aṭibbā’ (Chief of Physicians) and associated with the Bīmāristān Manṣūrī. In this treatise he speaks of the knowledge he gained working in hospitals and states that he herein reveals medical information formerly kept secret, as well as acknowledging his debt to his master, Jamāl al-Dīn known as Ibn al-Sūlkī. The copy was made by Ismā’īl ibn Turkī al-Manshalīlī and is undated, but the nature of the paper, ink, script and illumination suggests a date of the late fifteenth-century.
In this manuscript, medical illustrations have been painted over the text of al-I’rab ’an qawā’id al-i’rab by Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Hishām (b. 708/1310, d. 761/1360), a Cairene grammarian. The treatise is an introduction to the study of the Arabic sentence.Medical illustration : a female figure with gravid uterus. The illustration is a 20th century over-painting over a page of grammatical text.49G: medicine, medical science
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldA general medical treatise in two parts: The first maqālah comprises 66 chapters (bābs) on diseases of the head.The second encompasses 55 chapters concerned with diseases of the stomach and other parts of the body, presented in descending order, and concluding with some chapters on fevers.Colophon. Judeo-Arabic.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldA copy of al-Kitāb al-Manṣūrī fī al-ṭibb (The Book on Medicine for al-Manṣūr) by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyāʾ al-Rāzī (known to Europeans as Rhazes), who died ca. 313 AH/925 CE in Rayy, near modern Tehran. This is a general medical compendium in ten books, dedicated to the governor of Rayy, the Sāmānid prince Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Manṣūr ibn Isḥāq.Colophon.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldThis is a comprehensive general medical encyclopaedia writen by the Damascene physician Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 687AH/1288 CE). Although it was projected by the author to encompass three hundred volumes when completed with each volume consisting of approximately ninety-five leaves, according to the biographical sources, only eighty of the volumes were competed, of which only fragments survive.The colophon tells us that the copy was completed 11 Rabī’ I 687 AH 15 Apr. 1288 CE by ’Alī ibn Ibrahīm known as al-Ra’īm, in the same year in which the author died on 21 Dhū al-Qa’dah 687AH 17 Dec. 1288 CE.
Fols. 105; 24 x 16 cm.; written surface 16.5 x 8.8 cm.; 21 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in Fārisi; with catchwords; entries in red.A compendium of medicine, being an abridgment of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Ibn al-Nafīs was the first to discover the pulmonary circulation of the blood two centuries before Servetus, A.D. 1553 who is commonly credited with the discovery. See Max Meyerhof in Isis, No. 65 (Vol. XXIII, I) 1935, pp. 100-120; Sami I. Haddad and Amin A. Khairallah in Annals of Surgery, (Vol. 104; No. 1) 1936, pp. 1-8.Beg.: بسم الله ... قد رتبت هذا الکتاب على اربعة فنونColophon: تم الکتاب الموجز في علم الطب تألىف ابي العلاء ابن الحسن علي ابن ابي الحسن القرشي المتطب المتطبب رحمه الله تعالى ونفع بتألىفه المسلمىن امىنMarginal summaries in red; important words are overlined with red. On back of the first page and the two preceeding folios is a table of contents. MS in good condition; Arabic binding with flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 497, VI, pp. 251/2; Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, pp. 33, 45; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6275.Printed in Calcutta, A.D. 1828, 1832; Lucknow, A.D. 1878.
Fols. 52; 18.3 x 13.7 cm.; written surface 14.5 x 10.2 cm.; 16 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.A medical treatise on the various kinds of fever and the remedies for them.Beg.: بسم الله ... الحمدلله العلىم الذي لا ىغرب عن علمهColophon: وامراض الکبد وامراض الطحال والحمىات المزمنة والله سبحانه اعلم. جمع کاتبه موسى ابراهىم الشافعي المتطببA few marginal notes and glosses. MS was written by the author; in good condition; Arabic binding with flap.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Fols. 172; 30.5 x 21 cm.; written surface 23.7 x 14 cm.; 25 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; entries in red.A commentary on Masāʼil fī al-ṭibb lil-mutaʻallimīn, a famous work on medicine by Abū Zayd ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq A.H. 194-260 A.D. 809/10-873. This in turn is a redaction of his other work, al-Mudkhal fī al-ṭibb.Beg.: بسم الله الرحمن ... قال الشىخ ... ان ارباب المعرفةColophon: تمت الخاتمة بتمامها تم الکتاب باسره.مA few marginal notes and glosses. MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding; gilt stamped and blind tooling.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʻah, ʻUyūn al-anbāʼ (1884), II, p. 22; ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 514/5; Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2861/2; Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1932; Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 804.
Abstract: A medical treatise on the making of theriacs.Binding note: Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and decorative edging. Gold-specked light blue paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).A few marginal notes. It is stated in the colophon that the work was composed 667 1268. Diagram on fol. 24a.Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 159 + ii ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 35 lines per page ; ruled.Description: Rubricated ; edges have been trimmed ; MS in very good condition. MS is rare.Origin: According to colophon copied 23 or 24 Rajab 954 by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Īwānī (fol. 159a).Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عونك اللهم الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان وجعل بدنه اشرفه الابدان ... اما بعد فان اهل عصرنا وزمننا قد قلت منهم الهمم عن الفحص في اسرار العلوم والحكم خصوصا علم الطب ...Colophon: وابتداء الکتابة في هذه النسخة في ثالث او رابع عشرين شهر رجب سنة اربع وخمسين وتسعمائة وانتهائها انتهاؤها في الليلة المذکورة ولله الحمد على الاعانة في ذلك وامثاله. تم والحمد لله رب العالمين
Anonymous.Fols. 45; 19.5 x 12.5 cm.; written surface 16 x 10 cm.; 10-28 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; headings in red.An anthology containing poems by various authors such as Ibn al-Fāriḍ A.H. 576-632 A.D. 1180/1-1234/5, Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʻArabī A.H. 560-638 A.D. 1165-1240, selections from his book Tarjumān al-Ashwāq, from Ṣafī al-Dīn al-ḥillī A.H. 677-750 A.D 1278-1349/50, Ibn al-ḥijjah al-ḥamawī A.H. 767-837 A.D. 1365/6-1434 and others.Beg.: نجدى سىکاه. ىا ترى هل لنا ىعود * قمر حل في ورودEnding: لکن اغض الطرف منه حىث ما * شرف الحما بتزاحم الرقباءHeadings in red on the first 23 folios; ruled marginal lines on the first 19 folios. MS is written in different hands. On the title page is the autograph of an owner dated A.H. 1237 A.D. 1822. On the page after the colophon and on the five folios following are some charms, medical prescriptions, several verses of love poetry, two verses from the Qurʼān, several verses of other poetry, and some scribblings. MS in fair condition; stained with dampness; worm-eaten and mended; Arabic binding.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.