al-Irshād li-maṣāliḥ al-anfus wa-al-ajsād الإرشاد لمصالح الأنفس والأجساد Ibn Jumayʿ, Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn ابن جميع، هبة الله بن زين

Or 2601, ff 39r-78v

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The record is made up of Ff. 39r-78v. It was created in 13th century. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Fragment of a general guide to medicine by al-Muwaffiq Shams al-Riyāsah abū al-‘Ashā’ir Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn (الموفق شمس الرياسة أبو العشائر هبة الله بن زين; d. 1198) known as Ibn Jumay‘ (ابن جميع), personal physician to the sultan of Egypt and Syria Saladin (صلاح الدين الأيوبي; d. 1193).

The work is divided into four books (مقالات), and this copy contains Book One, chapters (فصول) one to seven and ten to thirty-eight out of a total fifty chapters. Folios 39r-41r contain a detailed table of contents.

Begins (f. 41v, lines 1-57):

الفصل الأول

في حد الطب وغايته

[...] الصنائع منها ما غايتها علمه فقط كالعلم الطبيعي

وتسمي العلوم والصنائع النظرية ومنها ما غايتها أن تفعل

فعل ما كالصناعة وتسمي الصنائع الفاعلة ...

Ends (f. 78v, lines 12-14):

... ولذلك يقول فاضل الأطباء جالينوس إنه (لا سيما ؟)

معرفة شيء من منافع الأعضاء الحرسة (؟) دون العمل بالأفعال

ولذلك يكون المنفعة عنلهم (؟) عبارة عن معرفة العضو الفاعل

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Ff. 39r-78v
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Or 2601, ff 39r-78v

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13th century (CE, Gregorian)

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Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte 1975), Item 170, p. 149

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Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 164-65

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al-Irshād li-maṣāliḥ al-anfus wa-al-ajsād الإرشاد لمصالح الأنفس والأجساد Ibn Jumayʿ, Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn ابن جميع، هبة الله بن زين, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Or 2601, ff 39r-78v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024114874.0x000002> [accessed 5 October 2024]

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