Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustūr al-a‘yān منهاج الدكّان ودستور الأعيان al-Kūhīn al-ʻAṭṭār, Abū al-Munā ibn Abī Nāṣr الكوهين العطار، أبو المنى ابن أبي نصر

Or 5786, ff 1v-95v

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The record is made up of Ff. 1v-95v. It was created in 715. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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A comprehensive manual on pharmaceutical practice and ethics composed at Cairo in 658 AH/AD 1260 by the Jewish pharmacist Abū al-Muná Dāwūd ibn Abī Naṣr ibn Ḥifāẓ al-Kūhīn al-'Attar al-Isrā’īlī al-Hārūnī (أبو المنى داوود ابن أبي نصر بن حفاظ الكوهين العطار الإسرائيلي الهاروني, see f. 1v, lines 5-6, transcribed below).

The text is arranged in twenty-five chapters (أبواب), and a table of contents in found on ff. 1v-2r. This copy is defective at the end at some point in or after Chapter 21 (see f. 78r, lines 5-6), although the precise location is difficult to ascretain as rubrics have been omitted on ff. 86r-95v.

Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-6):

هذا منهاج الدكان ودستور الأعيان فيما ينبغي أن يحتوي عليه من الأشربة والمعاجين

والجوارشنات والربوب والمربيات والأقراص والسفوفات الأكحال

والشيافات والأدهان وذلك مما عنى بجمعه تذكرة لنفسه ولولده من بعده العبد

الفقير الدليل أبو المنى ابن أبي نصر بن حفاظ المعروف بالكوهين العطار الإسرائيلي

الهاروني بالقاهرة المحروسة في سنة ثمان وخمسين وستمائة ...

Ends (ends abruptly at f. 95v, lines 21):

وكذلك السفرجل والتفاح والكمثرى إذا دقتها ففي حرن رمام أو صوان إذا أطبخت الأصول

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Ff. 1v-95v
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Arabic in Arabic script
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Or 5786, ff 1v-95v

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715 (AH, Hijri qamari)

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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 208, pp. 180

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Edition:

  • al-Kūhīn al-ʻAṭṭār, Abū al-Munā ibn Abī Nāṣr, Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustūr al-aʻyān , ed. by Muḥammad Raḍwān Mihannā (al-Manṣūrah: Maktabat Jazīrat al-Ward, 2005[?])

Studies:

  • Chipman, Leigh, The World of Pharmacy and Pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2010)
  • Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 309-10

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Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustūr al-a‘yān منهاج الدكّان ودستور الأعيان al-Kūhīn al-ʻAṭṭār, Abū al-Munā ibn Abī Nāṣr الكوهين العطار، أبو المنى ابن أبي نصر, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Or 5786, ff 1v-95v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024115485.0x000001> [accessed 19 April 2024]

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