al-Juz’ al-thāmin wa-al-juz’ al-tāsi‘ min al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الجزء الثامن والجزء التاسع من الحاوي في الطب Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا

Content

Parts Eight and Nine (الجزء الثامن والجزء التاسع) of the Kitāb al-Ḥāwī (كتاب الحاوي, Liber continens ), an encyclopaedic medical compendium by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925).

The title page (f. 3r) gives the following title:

الجزء الثامن من كتاب الحاوي

في الطب

وفيه

الجزء التاسع والجزء العاشر

The division between parts eight and nine is not apparent in the text.

The production date of this codicological unit can be given a terminus post quem of 711/1311-12, the earliest date found amongst the ownership inscriptions on f. 3r.

Begins (f. 3v, lines 2-6):

من التدبير الملطف

قال التدبير الملطف يحل جسا الكبد قال ولا ينبغي في علل

الكبد والطحال أن يخلط بماء كشك الشعير عسل لي

أقل السكر هاهنا لي تفقل (؟) في علل الكبد حال البول

فمتى رأيته احتبس أصلًا فاعلم أن الورم في الكبد عظيم جدًا

Ends (f. 274v, lines 20-21):

فيحمله بجامع وهي محملة له فإنه عجيب وإن كان سره غلام

ولدت غلامًا وإن جارية فجارية.

Extent and format

Ff. 1r-274v

It is part of

al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الحاوي في الطب Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا

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Ref: Arundel Or 14

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 215 x 150 mm leaf [170 x 110 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. marks partially visible on some folia (see e.g. ff. 67r and 68r)

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh ; more than one hand, changes of scribal hand noticeable at ff. 72r, 101r, 163r, and 221r

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

Decoration: None

Binding: British Museum maroon half-leather binding, both covers gilt tooled with coat of arms and legend 'Bibliotheca Arundeliana'; indications that previous binding had envelope flap (ff. 1 and 2)

Condition: Minor insect damage, some repaired; some bleed-through of iron-gall ink; stains towards back of volume

Marginalia: Few by more than one hand

Seals: None

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Arundel Or 14, ff 1r-274v

History of this record

Date(s)

c 0711 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Provenance

• al-Dimashqī (الدمشقي), rest of name unclear: his inscription, with date Friday 28 Ṣafar 884/21 May 1479 (f. 1v);
• Ismā‘īl (إسمعيل), rest of name erased: his inscription, with date 727/1326-27, rest of date erased (f. 3r);
• Inscription, mostly erased, with date 711/1311-12 (f. 3r);
• Inscription, with date 4 Rabī‘ I 884/26 May 1479 (f. 3r);
• Further owners' inscriptions erased and illegible (f. 3r);
• The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 3r);
• ‘Abd al-Wāḥid al-Yahūdī (عبد الواحد اليهودي): his inscription, without date (f. 3v).

Related material

Finding aids

• Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 446, pp. 221
• Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 63, pp. 55

Select Bibliography

Edition:

• Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, Kitāb al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb , ed. by ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bukhārī et al., 23 volumes in 25 (Ḥaydar Ābād al-Dakan: Maṭbaʻat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʻārif al-ʻUthmānīyah, 1958-81)

Latin translation:

• Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, Liber Helchauy. idest continens artem medicine & dicta predecesso[rum] in hac facultate conmendato[rum] , ed. by Hieronymus Salius Fauentinus (Impressum Venetijs: Mandato & sumptibus Heredum Octauiani Scoti Modoetiensis per Bonetum Locatellum Bergomensem presbyterum, 1506)

Studies:

• 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), pp. 1-26
• Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums , vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 278-80
• Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 130-31

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