Sharḥ masāʾil fī al-ṭibb شرح مسائل في الطب Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي

Content

Commentary by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī (أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري, d. ca 1068) on the Questions on Medicine for Students (المسائل في الطب للمتعلّمين) by Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (أبو زيد حنين بن إسحق العبادي, d. 873).

The copy is defective at beginning and end. A title page (f. 1r) added by a later hand incorrectly identifies the text as the Sharḥ fuṣūṣ Hunayn ibn Isḥāq (شرح فصوص حنين بن إسحق) and attributes it to Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا, d. ca 925).

A space has been left blank for a diagram on f. 78r.

Begins (f. 2r, lines 1-4, defective at beginning):

فإن البدن تتألم بهذه الكيفيات إذا أفرطت الألم

إحساس بالمؤذي هو الضد فلو لم يوجد في

البدن هذه الأجسام الأربعة لما كان نتألم بواحدة

من كيفياتها ...

Ends (f. 265, lines 14-17, defective at end):

... والحادي عشر أن يراعي استمرار الفعل

وهو أن يفحص هل الشي إذا لقي البدن أسخنه أو برده

ولا يزال يتزايد مع طول الملاقاة أم تجده يسخنه أو يبرده

مع الملاقاة ولا يزال ينتقص على طول الملاقاة أم تجده

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ii+1+i+264+iv

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 228 x 145 mm leaf [185 x 110 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic foliation in black in (with numbers written out as words) is visible or partially visible on many folios (e.g. ff. 127r and 128r)

Ruling: No ruling visible; 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh

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

Decoration: None

Binding: British Museum half-leather binding

Condition: Minor tidemarks at head and tail, some faded ink overwritten to increase legibility

Marginalia: Notes by many hands and marginal headings, many mutilated through page trimming

Seals: None

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 6690

History of this record

Date(s)

13th century (CE, Gregorian)

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from Ibrahim Elias Gejou, 12 March 1906

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. 45
• Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 47, p. 39

Select Bibliography

Edition of text commented upon:

• Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, al-Masā’il fī al-ṭibb lil-muta‘allimīn , ed. by Muḥammad ‘Alī Abū Rayyān, Mursī Muḥammad ‘Arab and Jalāl Muḥammad Mūsá (al-Iskandarīyah: Dār al-Jāmi‘āt al-Miṣrīyah, 1978)

Translations of text commented upon:

• Wilson, Jan E. and Samuel Dinkha, Hunayn ibn Ishaq's 'Questions on Medicine for Students': Transcription and Translation of the Oldest Extant Syriac Version (Vat. Syr. 192) (Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010)
• Ghalioungui, Paul and Galal M. Moussa, Questions on medicine for Scholars by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq; translated into English, with a preface and historical note, by Paul Ghalioungui, from a critical edition by Galal M. Moussa of the ninth century Arabic text, "al Masa'il fi al-tibb lil muta'allimin" (Cairo: A R E Al-Ahram Center for Scientific Translations, 1980)

Studies:

• Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums , vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970). pp. 250-51
• Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 160

Subjects

Medicine--Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Abū al-Qāsim ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Alī Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-NīsābūrīḤunayn ibn Isḥāq al-'Ibādī

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Sharḥ masāʾil fī al-ṭibb شرح مسائل في الطب Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Or 6690, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100047818603.0x000001> [accessed 19 April 2024]

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