Medical compendium

Content

Contains two medical treatises and a collection of ten extracts from poets and medical authors.

• Hippocrates (أبقراط), al-Fuṣūl (الفصول) (ff 1v-32r);
• Ibn Jazlah (ابن جزلة), Minhāj al-bayān (منهاج البيان) (ff 21v-62r);
• Ten extracts on medical topics in verse and prose (ff 62r-64v).

The title page (f. 1r) lists the contents as Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ (فصول أبقراط) and Fuṣūl al-sittah (فصول الستة).

The date of the manuscript is found in the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. of maqālah 1 of the Minhāj al-Bayān (f. 32r, lines 8-9):

يوم الأربعاء الثالث من رمضان سنة تسعين وستمائة الهجرية ('Thursday 3 Ramaḍān 690 AH'/Thursday 30 August AD 1291).

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff v+64+ii

It is grouped into

فصول أبقراط Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ

40 images

Ref: Or 9452, ff 1v-21r

Fuṣūl al-sittah فصول الستة Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ‘Īsá ابن جزلة، يحيى بن عيسى،

82 images

Ref: Or 9452, ff 21v-62r

Three short poems and seven medical extracts

6 images

Ref: Or 9452, ff 62r-64v

Physical characteristics

Material: Paper

Dimensions: 155 x 80 mm leaf [128 x 47 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic pagination in black ink

Ruling: Misṭarah; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 19 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink; headings, titles and occasional text stops in gold; frames in red, blue and gold; illuminations in black, red, blue, green and gold

Decoration: Table of contents on title page (f. 1r) illuminated in black, red, blue, green and gold; kufic basmalah illuminated in black, red, blue, green and gold in rectangles spanning tops of ff. 1v and 2r; basmalah illuminated in black, red, blue, green and gold in rectangles at upper margin with foliate indicators in margin towards fore-edge on ff. 21v and 33v

Binding: Islamic binding in red leather with envelope flap; blind tooled foliated frame, large corner pieces, medallion and pendants on covers and flap; pastedowns and flyleaves front and back of paper painted bright yellow, varnished and polished

Condition: Moderate damage to leaves due to worms and ink corrosion repaired especially in first half of volume

Marginalia: Owners' notes on title page (f. 1r); very few marginal corrections (e.g. ff. 1v and 23r); one longer not has been preserved during trimming and extends beyond the average leaf dimensions (f. 22v)

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 9452

History of this record

Date(s)

3 Ramaḍān 690 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Provenance

Two owners' notes on title page (f. 1r):

• Inscription dated early Rabī‘ I 1089 AH (late April 1678); name erased
• Inscription dated late Jumādá I 1174 AH (early January 1761); name unclear

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from M. Nahman, 14 June 1924

Related material

Finding aids

Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte 1975), item 1

Subjects

Medicine, ArabMedicine, MedievalMedicine, Greek and RomanPharmacology

People & organisations

HippocratesYaḥyá ibn 'Īsá Ibn Jazlah

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