Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah جامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ابن البيطار، عبد الله بن أحمد
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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+198+i. It was created in 27 Jumādá I 702. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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Part (جزء) three of four (containing entries زنجار to قشبة) of one of the most influential and important Arabic handbooks of materia medica, written by the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad (ضياء الدين أبو محمد عبد الله بن أحمد; d. 1248), known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (ابن البيطار), Chief Herbalist (رئيس العشابين) to the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil (reg. 1218-38).
The copy was completed on Thursday 27 Jumādá I 702/17 January 1303 by Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-‘Umarī (محمد بن عبد الرحمن ابن عبد الله العمري), who created the copy for his own use (see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 198r, lines 14-18, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
زنجار ديسقوريدوس في 5 ما كان منه تسميه اليونان قسنـ[...]
مسينطوس (؟) ومعناه المجرود فإنه يعمل على هذه الصفة يصب خل ثقيـ[...]
في إجابة أو في إناء آخر يشبه بالخابية ويغطا الإناء بغطاء من نحاس ...
Ends (f. 198r, lines 7-11):
قشبه كتاب الرحلة القشبة اسم حجازي لقشر مجلوب إلى مكه (؟) يشبه ما غلظ من قشر السليخة الحمراء تشوبه
خضرة يسيرة طعمه منه قبوضة وعفوصة يسيرة يستعملونه
في بخورات النساء يؤتى به من اليمن أول الاسم قاف مكسورة ثم شين معجمة ساكنة ثم باء بواحدة مفتوحة بعدها هاء
Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 198r, lines 12-23):
نجز الجزء الثالث من أربعة أجزاء من كتاب الجامع
لقوى الأدوية المفر[د]ة والحمد لله وحده
نسخـ[ـه] بيده لنفسه العبد الفقير إلى رحمة ربه المعترف بخطاياه
وذنبه محمد بن عبد الرحمن ابن عبد الله العمري
عفا الله عنه وعن والديه وعن جميع المسلمين
[كا]ن الفراغ منه ليلة يسفر صباحها عن يوم الخميس السابع والعشرين
من شهر جمادى الأولى سنة أثنين وسبعمائة للهجرة النبوية المحمدية
صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم
يتلوه الجزء الرابع إن شاء الله وهو بقية حرف القاف وأوله
قصب ديسقوريدوس في الأولى
منه ما يقال له ناسطوس وهو المصمت
والحمد لله سبحانه كثيرًا وصلواته على خير خلقه وعبيده محمد وآله الطييبين والطاهرين
- Extent and format
- Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+198+i
- Physical characteristics
Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 260 x 180 mm leaf [185 x 125 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah ; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh ; the scribe is Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-‘Umarī (محمد بن عبد الرحمن ابن عبد الله العمري, see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 198r, lines 15)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and lemmata and marginal headings in red
Decoration: None
Binding: British Museum half-leather binding
Condition: Minor insect damage, tidemarks in edge margin towards front of volume; ff. 1-8 mutilated and repaired at head margin
Marginalia: Moderate amount by more than one hand
Seals: ff. 1r and 1v
- Written in
- Arabic in Arabic script
- Type
- Manuscript
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- British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
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Unrestricted
- Archive reference
- Or 5839
- Date(s)
- 27 Jumādá I 702 (AH, Hijri qamari)
- Context of creation
Egypt?
- Provenance
Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-‘Umarī (محمد بن عبد الرحمن العمري), scribe of this manuscript: his inscription without date (f. 1r, cf. colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 198r, line 15);
Nine semi-legible inscriptions in Arabic (two with seals) and one in Hebrew (f. 1r);
‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Abd Allāh Ḥusaynī (عبد الله بن عبد الله حسيني): his seal, without date (f. 1v).
- Immediate source of acquisition
Purchased from Ibrahim Elias Gejou, 15 October 1900
- 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. 43
- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 197, pp. 171
- Select Bibliography
Editions:
- Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, al-Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah (Bayrūt: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmīyah, 1992)
- Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Kitāb al-Jāmiʿ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah ([Būlāq]: al-Maṭbaʿah al-ʿāmirah, 1291 [1874]; reprinted in series Manshūrat Maʻhad Tarīkh al-ʻUlūm al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Islamīyah, al-Ṭibb al-Islamī; 69, 70 [Frankfurt am Main : Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1996])
- Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Tanqīḥ mufradāt Ibn al-Bayṭār al-ʿashshāb al-Mālaqī min kitābihi al-Jāmiʿ, (ed. by Muḥammad al-ʿArabī al-Khaṭṭābī), (Bayrūt: Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 1990)
Translations:
- Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Grosse Zusammenstellung über die Kräfte der bekannten einfachen Heil- und Nahrungsmittel von Abu Mohammed Abdallah Ben Ahmed aus Malaga bekannt unter dem Namen Ebn Baithar, (trans. by Joseph von Sontheimer), (Stuttgart: Hallberger'sche Verlagshandlung, 1840-42)
- Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, Traité des simples, (trans. by Lucien Leclerc), in Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques, vols 23.1 (1877), 25.1 (1881) and 26.1 (1883) (reprinted Paris: Institut du Monde arabe, 1987)
Study:
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 280-83
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