[Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ] [شرح فصول أبقراط] Kīlānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad كيلاني، أحمد بن محمد

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The record is made up of Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+225+i. It was created in 15th century. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Commentary by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-Mutaṭabib al-Kīlānī (أحمد بن محمد بن قاسم المتطبب الكيلاني, fl. ca 1345, see f. 1v, line 14) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC).

The text is dedicated to the Qipchaq Maḥmūd Jalāl al-Dīn Jānī Beg Khān (محمود جلال الدين جاني بك خان, reg. 1342-57, see f. 1r, line 1).

The manuscript is defective at beginning and end, finishing abruptly during the commentary on Book One, Aphorism 5 (cf. ed. Tytler, 1832, p. 3).

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

محمود سلطان جلال الدنيا والدين جاني بك خان

أسعده الله في الدارين وأيده وخلد جلال ممالكه

Ends (f. 225v, lines 11-14, defective at end):

... لأن التدبير اللطيف فهم

لا يخلف يدل ما يتحلل منهم على ما ينبغي ويبرز المواد التي تغمرها رطوبة

الغذاء ويظهر في الجسد لأن (؟) الجسد والنار به وتحللت الرطوبات المحتاجة إليها

فلا جرم يكون للخطاء في التدبير اللطيف للأصحاء والمرضى أشد وأعظم ضررًا

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Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+225+i
Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 245 x 160 mm leaf [165 x 105 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; mid- quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. marks (quaternions) in black ink are seen in the four edge corners of openings; quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. marks partially trimmed are visible towards back of volume

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 14 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated lemmata, and overlinings and diacritics (both i‘jām and tashkīl) around headings in red

Decoration: None

Binding: British Museum half-leather binding

Condition: Tidemarks at fore edge and head, worse towards back of volume; ff. 190-225 mutilated and repaired with some loss of text

Marginalia: Few

Seals: None

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Arabic in Arabic script
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Manuscript

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Original held at
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
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Unrestricted

Archive reference
Or 5939

History of this record

Date(s)
15th century (CE, Gregorian)
Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from Ibrahim Elias Gejou, 30 March 1901

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. 42

Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 7, p. 5

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Edition of text commented upon:

  • Hippocrates, الفصول الابقراطية The Aphorisms of Hippocrates, Translated into Arabic by Honain ben Ishak, Physician to the Caliph Motawakkul, ed. by John Tytler (Calcutta: The Education press, 1832)

Studies:

  • Karimullah, Kamran, 'Transformation of Galen’s Textual Legacy from Classical to Post-Classical Islamic Medicine: Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms', Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 5.3 (2017) 311-358
  • Pormann, Peter and Kamran Karimullah, 'The Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms: Introduction', Oriens: Journal of the International Society for Oriental Research 45.1-2 (2017), 1-52
  • Rosenthal, Franz, '"Life Is Short, the Art Is Long": Arabic Commentaries on the First Hippocratic Aphorism', Bulletin of the History of Medicine 40, 1966, p. 226-45
  • Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970). p. 31

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[Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ] [شرح فصول أبقراط] Kīlānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad كيلاني، أحمد بن محمد, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Or 5939, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100048364421.0x000001> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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