Three treatises on medicine

Content

Contents:

• (1) Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology (ff. 1r-59v);
• (2) Ṣubunrī (صبنري), Kitāb al-raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah (كتاب الرحمة في الطب والحكمة, ff. 60v-74v);
• (3) Manual of therapeutics (ff. 75v-308r).

The colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. at the end of the third text, claims that the manuscript from which the text was copied was completed on Tuesday 21 Ṣafar 1114/18 July 1702 (f. 307v, lines 2-9). The present manuscript must therefore have been copied after this date.

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+308+i

It is grouped into

Anonymous treatise on ophthalmology

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Ref: Or 5620, ff 1r-59v

Kitāb al-raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah كتاب الرحمة في الطب والحكمة [Ṣubunrī, Mahdī ibn ʻAlī صبنري، محمد بن علي]

29 images

Ref: Or 5620, ff 60v-74v

Manual of therapeutics

466 images

Ref: Or 5620, ff 75v-308r

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 220 x 125 mm leaf [135 x 75 mm written]

Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink visible on some folios (not on ff. 56r-76r; begins again from 1 at f. 76v; errors in foliation and corrections from f. 104r to end of volume), British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red

Decoration: None

Binding: British Museum binding

Condition: Defective at beginning, ff. 1-2 mutilated and repaired with no loss of text, tidemarks at head especially towards front of volume

Marginalia: Few by more than one hand overall, but see especially ff. 57r-59v

Seals: F. 1r

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 5620

History of this record

Date(s)

18th century (CE, Gregorian)

Provenance

• Mi‘mārzādah Ḥusayn al-Anṣārī (معمارزاده حسين الأنصاري): his inscription recording the purchase of the manuscript, dated 1301/1883-4 (f. 1r);
• Ḥusayn al-Anṣārī (حسين الأنصاري): his waqfīyah seal, with date 1309/1891-2 (f. 1r).

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from J.J. Naaman, 11 July 1899

Related material

Finding aids

• Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards, A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 46-7
• Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 64, p. 55; Item 296, p. 221; Item 23, p. 251; and Item 32, p. 253

Subjects

Medicine--Early works to 1800

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