Two medical texts [iii-r] (12/392)
The record is made up of Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. iii+185+iv. It was created in 28 Ramaḍān 1087. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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The manuscript was produced in Egypt as confirmed by the use in the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 184v, lines 7-8, transcribed below) of the Coptic date alongside the hijrī year. The copy was completed on 28 Hatūr 1393 (of the Coptic era)/28 Ramaḍān 1087/4 December 1676. A small note below the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. gives the subsequent (collation?) date 18 Ṭūbah [1394] (of the Coptic era)/[29] Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1088/23 January 1678.
The manuscript was probably collected by the Scottish surgeon and naturalist Patrick Russell (1726-1805) during his service as physician to the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Company factory An East India Company trading post. in Aleppo (1753-71). While in Aleppo, Russell studied the outbreaks of plague in 1760-62, so may have been interested in the recipe (f. 1r) for pills (حبوب), five of which were to be taken in the morning, before breakfast, during plague season (في أيام الوباء). This recipe is said to have been received from Ibn al-Ḥākhām ('son of the Rabbi') Mūsá on 7 Rajab 1138/11 March 1726 (see Custodial History).
Contents:
- (1) al-‘Aynzarbī (العينزربي), al-Kāfī fī ṣinā‘at al-ṭibb (الكافي في صناعة الطب; ff. 2r-172v);
- (2) al-Qawṣūnī (القوصوني), Zād al-masīr fī ʿilāj al-bawāsīr (زاد المسير في علاج البواسير; ff. 173r-185r).
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- Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. iii+185+iv
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Material: Western laid paper, with Tre lune watermark
Dimensions: 209 x 150 mm leaf [140 x 95 mm written]
Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink, British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah ; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 16 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Binding: Red leather binding, with stamped medallion, pendants corner and edge pieces; marbled doublures and recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. -side of first front and end flyleaves
Condition: Minor water damage to lower, outer corner towards front and end of volume
Marginalia: Few; most (all?) by hand of scribe
Seals: None
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