Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ شرح فصول أبقراط Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي and Kitāb fī-dafʿ al-maḍarr al-kullīyah li-l-abdān al-insānīyah كتاب في دفع المضار الكلية للأبدان الإنسانية Avicenna ابن سينا

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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+208+i. It was created in 1094. It was written in Arabic, Persian and Farsi. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Two medical treatises.

Contents:

  • (1) Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī (ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري), Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ (شرح فصول أبقراط, ff. 2v-177r);
  • (2) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Kitāb fī-dafʿ al-maḍarr al-kullīyah li-l-abdān al-insānīyah (كتاب في دفع المضار الكلية للأبدان الإنسانية, ff. 178v-208v).

Folios 2-9 and 208 are replacements added later.

Extent and format
Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+208+i
Physical characteristics

Material: Ff. 2-9 are Western laid paper with a 'Tre lune' watermark; ff. 10-207 are Eastern laid paper; f. 208 is Western laid paper

Dimensions: 244 x 135 mm leaf [170 x 90 mm written, written area different on ff. 2-9 and 208]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: No ruling visible; 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 10 lines per 10 cm (different ruling on ff. 2-9 and 208)

Script: Naskh ; the scribe is Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir Qurashī (شيخ عبد القادر قرشي, see f. 177r, lines 6-8)

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

Decoration: None

Binding: Red leather binding without flap, medallion and pendants gold-tooled, borders blind-tooled

Condition: Tidemarks worse towards front of volume; ff. 135-208 mutilated and repaired worse towards back of volume

Marginalia: Very few (see f. 122r)

Seal: f. 177v

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Arabic, Persian and Farsi in Arabic script
Type
Manuscript

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Original held at
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference
Or 5820

History of this record

Date(s)
1094 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Context of creation

Burhanpur, India

Provenance

Semi-legible seal, with date 1189?/1775-6? (f. 177v)

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from Ibrahim Elias Gejou, 18 July 1900

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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), Items 4 and 97, pp. 4 and 99

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Sharḥ Fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ شرح فصول أبقراط Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي and Kitāb fī-dafʿ al-maḍarr al-kullīyah li-l-abdān al-insānīyah كتاب في دفع المضار الكلية للأبدان الإنسانية Avicenna ابن سينا, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Or 5820, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100060433465.0x000001> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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