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

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Volume One (الجزء الأول) of a 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).

An illuminated title page (f. 3r) gives the title as Kitāb sharḥ masā’il Ḥunayn (كتاب شرح مسائل حنين). Ibn Abī Ṣādiq discusses the forms of the title on f. 4r, lines 1-3. The title page also names the manuscript's patron as Yūḥannā (يوحنا).

The commentary is divided into ten chapters (فصول) following the divisions of the work commented upon. A list of the chapters and their contents appears on f. 4r-4v.

A note on a slip of paper has been bound into the volume between ff. 29 and 30. Below the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 166v) is a collation note signed by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥakīm.

The commentary contains one table illuminated in gold, blue and red which contains information on the hot, cold and balanced temperaments (f. 144r).

Begins (f. 3v, lines 2-5):

قال الحكيم الفاضل أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري رحمه الله الحمد لله حمدًا معترف بالآية شاكرًا لنعمائه

وصلواته على جميع أنبيائه إن أرباب المعرفة بصناعة الطب قد تواطوا

على أن الراغب في هذا العلم يجب أن يفتتح تعلمه بكتاب المسائل لحنين

ابن إسحق لأنه عمله مدخلًا للمتعلمين إليه ...

Ends (f. 166v, lines 1-2):

المفردات من المطبوخات خاصة وما يستخرج من أجزاء الحيوان فيسمونها

الفاذازهر

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 166v, lines 3-5):

تم الجزؤ الأول من كتاب

شرح مسائل حنين لابن أبي صادق

حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ii+167+ii

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 250 x 185 mm leaf [200 x 130 mm written, left margin unjustified]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh

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

Decoration: Title page illuminated in Mamluke style in gold, blue and red (f. 3r); table illuminated in gold, blue and red (f. 144r).

Binding: British Museum half-leather binding

Condition: Insect damage repaired on some folios

Marginalia: Few by multiple hands

Seals: Ff. 2r, 3v, 4r, 11r, 32r, and 166v

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 11613

History of this record

Date(s)

14th century (CE, Gregorian)

Provenance

• Inscription without date, naming the book erroneously as Ta‘līqāt al-Qānūn al-ṭibb (تعليقات القانون الطب) and giving the author as Abū Ṣādiq al-Baghdādī (أبو صادق البغدادي), and claiming that it was bought at Baghdad for the sum of 5,000 dinars (f. 2r);
• Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Huṣnī: his seal, with only last two digits of date (40) legible (f. 2r);
• Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm (محمد بن إبراهيم), nisbah illegible: his inscription with date 941/1534-5 (f. 3r);
• Ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad (ابن محمد إسماعيل شمس الدين محمد), rest of name illegible: his seal, with date 1220/1805-6? (f. 3v, 4r, 11r, 32r, and 166v [the last two being the clearest impressions]);
• Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī (محمد الحسيني): his seal dated 1174/1760-1 (ff. 3v and 166v), with inscription (f. 3v only) mostly illegible due to water damage;
• Ibn ‘Aḍud al-Dīn Mas‘ūd al-Ḥalabī (?) Muḥammad Mu’ammar al-Ṭabīb (ابن عضد الدين مسعود الحلبي محمد مؤمر الطبيب): his inscription, and seal with date 1045/1635-6 (f. 166v).

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from S. H. Taqizadeh, 10 October 1936

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 46, pp. 38-9

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 Jallāl Muḥammad Mūsá (al-Iskandarīyah: Dār al-Jāmi‘āt al-Maṣrīyah, 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 11613, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100052416519.0x000001> [accessed 20 April 2024]

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