al-Rawḍah al-ṭibbīyah الروضة الطبي Anonymous

Content

An anonymous list of definitions of fifty philosophical terms useful for physicians. The text is defective at the end, and contains only forty-eight definitions. The author states that he has abridged his definitions from the practical section ( al-juz’ al-‘ilmī ) of a work called Tadhkarat al-ḥāḍir wa-zād al-musāfir , which may a variant title for Ibn al-Jazzār’s (d. 980) well-known medical handbook Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-ḥāḍir (see f. 55v, lines 4-5, transcribed below; and Ullmann, Medizin im Islam , 1970, pp. 147-48).

Begins (f. 55v, lines 2-7):

الحمد لله على تواتر الأية وأشكره على تطاهر نعمائه حمدًا

تحقق بعظمته وكشر يليق بكبرائه وأما بعد فإني

قد اختصرت من الكتاب المعنون بتذكرة الحاضر وزاد

المسافر في أصول الصناعة الطبية أعني الجزء العلمي

وإنه كتاب صغير المظر كبير المخبر ولقبته بالروضة

الطبية ...

Ends (ff. 81v, line 13-82r, line 1):

... فأما إذا تغيرت عن قوتها فلا يتم

لها هذا بل تكون تختلف عوضًا عما تحلل أو دون

ذلك مثلما يعرض للشيوخ والذين سيتولي عليهم

[f. 82r] ضعف الأعضاء بسبب سوء المزاج

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 82r, line 2):

تمت بحمد لله تعالى وعونه والصلاة على سيدنا محمد وآله

Extent and format

ff. 55v-82r

It is part of

Medical compendium

370 images

Ref: Arundel Or 10

Physical characteristics

Material: Paper

Dimensions: 174 x 124 mm leaf [130 x 94 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling:

• Misṭarah; 11 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm (ff. 4v-27v);
• Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing lines per 10 cm (ff. 28v-104r and 109r-174r);
• No ruling visible; average 18 lines per page; 16 lines per 10 cm (ff. 105v-108v)

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and over lining in red

Binding: British Museum binding in brown leather

Condition: minor waterstains, some foxing and light grime from thumbing, some folios torn and repaired (e.g. ff. 10, 11 and 68)

Marginalia: Occasional marginal annotations and corrections

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Arundel Or 10, ff 55v-82r

History of this record

Date(s)

711-712 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Context of creation

Aleppo

Provenance

See note on f. 28r of one Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Khalīl (?) ibn al-Ḥaṣūn (?) who inspected and copied the texts on ff. 28v-104r and 109r-174r on 17 Jumādá II 829/26 April 1426.

Front paper i verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. contains an anonymous bookplate with motto ‘NULLIUS IN VERBA’.

Folio 4r contains stamp inscribed ‘Soc. Reg. Lond. ex dono Henr. Howard Norfolciensis’.

Related material

Subjects

Medicine, Greek and Roman

People & organisations

Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā'id Ibn al-TilmīdhAvicennaGalen

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