Jāmiʿ al-gharaḍ fī ḥifẓ al-ṣiḥḥah wa-dafʿ al-maraḍ جامع الغرض في حفظ الصحة ودفع المرض Ibn al-Quff, Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq ابن القف ,أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق

Content

Medical treatise by Amīn al-Daulah Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff (أمين الدولة أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق بن القف, d. 1286). The treatise is dedicated to Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Wazīr Bahā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī (فخر الدين محمد بن الوزير بهاء الدين علي, f. 6r, ll. 1-3), vizier to the Mamluk sultan al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Baybars al-Bunduqdārī (الملك الظاهر بيبرس البندقداري, reg. 1260-77).

A list of the fifty-nine sections (فصول) of the treatise is given on ff. 6r-7v, but this manuscript contains a sixtieth section on physiognomy. This copy is defective at end.

Begins (f. 5v, lines 2-5):

قال الفقير إلى الله تعالى أبو الفرج بن يعقوب المعروف بابن القف المسيحي

الحمد لله مقدس الصفات والأسماء مقدر الداء والدواء محي الأموات

مميت الأحياء خالق الأعراض والجواهر المنزة عن الضريب والمظاهر الذي

عم الحيوان برزقه وخص الإنسان بفضيله نطقه وصلى الله على صفوته من خلقه

Ends (f. 180v, lines 14-17, defective at end):

... كثرة لحم الورك

دليل على ضعف القوة غلظ الساقين دليل على البلاهة والقحة دقة العقب

دليل على الجبن وغلظه دليل على الشره لطافة القدم دليل على أن صاحبه

مزاج وعنده فجور وكثرة لحمه دليل على سوء الفهم من كانتا خطاه سريعة قصيرة

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+180+ii

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 243 x 165 mm leaf [170 x 115 mm written]

Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink, British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 10 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink, with some rubricated headings and overlinings in red

Decoration: Illuminated frontispiece (f. 5r)

Binding: British Museum half-leather binding

Condition: Tidemarks at head and edge margins worse towards back of volume, foxing, repairs in margins of some folios

Marginalia: Marginal section headings, few marginalia by more than one hand

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 3690

History of this record

Date(s)

13th or 14th century (CE, Gregorian)

Provenance

• Ibn al-Usṭuwānī Ibrāhīm Afandī al-Nāẓir (ابن الأسطواني إبراهيم أفندي الناظر): his inscription recording his purchase of the manuscript from Naṣr Allāh Shāhīn, without date (نصر الله شاهين, f. 3r);
• al-Ra’īs Muḥammad al-Ṭabīb al-Ḥamawī (الرئيس محمد الطبيب الحموي): his inscription with date 987/1579-80 (f. 4r);
• al-Ḥāj Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥāj Yūsuf (الحاج محمد ابن الحاج يوسف): his inscription, without date (f. 4r);
• Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Khaṭīb al-Manṣūrīyah (محمد بن محمد بن أحمد بن خطيب المنصورية): his inscription, without date (f. 5r);
• Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (محمد بن محمد بن أحمد): his inscription, without date (f. 5r).

Immediate source of acquisition

Acquired for the British Museum By Earnest Wallis Budge, Keeper of Oriental Antiquities (see Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum [London: The British Museum, 1894], p. viii)

Related material

Finding aids

• Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 223, pp. 190-91
• Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 803, pp. 544-45

Select Bibliography

Edition:

• Ibn al-Quff, Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq, Jāmiʻ al-gharad ̣fī hịfz ̣al-sịhḥạh wa-dafʻ al-marad. Ibn al-Quff al-Karaki's book Preventive medicine and the preservation of health , ed. by Sami Khalaf Hamarneh (Amman: University of Jordan, 1989)

Studies:

• Hamarneh, Sami Khalaf, The Physician, Therapist, and Surgeon, Ibn al-Quff (1233-1286): An Introductory Survey of his Time, Life , and Works (Cairo: Atlas Press 1974)
• Hamarneh, Sami Khalaf, 'An Arab pioneer of preventive medicine: Ibn al-Quff', Studies in History of Medicine 4 (1980) pp. 280-303
• Iskandar, A.Z., A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library , 1967), p. 113
• Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 176 and 191-92

Subjects

Medicine--Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya'qūb ibn Isḥāq Ibn al-Quff

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