al-Mukhtār fī al-ṭibb المختار في الطب Ibn Hubal, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ابن هبل، علي بن أحمد

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Volume Two (المجلد الثاني; see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 282r, line 14, transcribed below) of a comprehensive encyclopaedia of medicine in four volumes by Muhadhdhab al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Hubal al-Baghdādī (مهذب الدين أبو الحسن علي بن أحمد بن علي بن هبل البغدادي, d. 1213).

The text is defective at the beginning. The copy was completed on 8 Ramadan 976/3 February 1569 by Pīr Bāshāh ibn Bāshāh Līsārī (پیر پاشاه ابن پاشاه ليساري) at Ardabīl (see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 282r, lines 16-20, transcribed below).

Begins (defective at beginning, f. 112r, lines 1-2):

الانفعالات النفسانيت من الغم والهم والغضب والانفعالات الحسية كأصوات الرعد والطبول والبوقات وزبير الأسد وجميع الأصوات

المنكرة القارعة للحس وكذلك المبصرات الهائلة المخوفة فصل في السكتة السكتة أصعب من الصرع

Ends (f. 282, lines 9-13):

... قال

الزكام والعطاش في جميع العلل

التي يكون في الرئة والأضلاع

فهي دلائل رديئة والله

أعلم بالصواب

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 282r, lines 14-24):

تمت المجلد الثاني من المختار بعون الله

وحسن توفيقه على يد الفقير الحقير المحتاج

إلى رحمة الله الملك المستعان پیر پاشاه

ابن پاشاه ليساري وغفر الله ذنوبهما بفضله

وكرمه وقد فرغ في الثامن شهر المبارك

رمضان في تأريخ سنة ستة

وسبعين وتسعمائة من هجرة النبي صلى الله وآله وسلم

والحمد لله رب العالمين

والصلوة على محمد و

آله آجمعين

Next to the date another hand has added: بدار الإرشاد أردبيل

Extent and format

Ff. 111v-282r

It is part of

Two medical treatises

588 images

Ref: Or 2805

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 235 x 170 mm leaf [205 x 140 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 25 lines per page; vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh ; the scribe is Pīr Bāshāh ibn Bāshāh Līsārī (پیر پاشاه ابن پاشاه ليساري; see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 282r, lines 16-17)

Ink: Black ink, with overlinings in red

Binding: British Museum half-leather binding

Condition: Minor water damage and smudging; defective at beginning

Marginalia: Marginalia by multiple hands

Seals: Ff. 111v and 282r

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 2805, ff 111r-282r

History of this record

Date(s)

8 Ramadan 976 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Context of creation

Ardabīl

Provenance

• Sidney John Alexander Churchill (سيدنه چرچیل, 1862-1921), British representative at Tehran (1880-94), his seal dated 1297/1879-80 (ff. 111v and 282r);
• ‘Abd Allāh Ṭabīb Luṭfī (عبد الله طبيب لطفي), his inscription and seal, without date (f. 282r).

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 174, pp. 154-55

Select Bibliography

Editions:

• Ibn Hubal, ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad, Kitāb al-Mukhtārāt fī al-ṭibb , 4 vols (Ḥaydarābād al-Dakkan: Maṭba‘at Jam‘iyāt Dā’irat al-Ma‘ārif al-‘Uthmānīyah, 1362-64 [1943-45]; reprinted in Kitāb al-Mukhtārāt fi l-ṭibb , Manshūrāt Maʻhad Tārīkh al-ʻUlūm al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Islāmīyah. Ṭibb al-Islāmī 64-67, 4 vols [Frankfurt am Main : Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University 1996]; vol. 4 only is reprinted in al-Mukhtārāt fī al-ṭibb , ed. by Hāshim al-Nadwī [Jubayl: Dār wa-Maktabat Bīblīyūn, 2005])

Partial edition:

• Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, Traité sur le calcul dans les reins et dans la vessie , ed. and trans. by P. de Koning (Leyde: E.J. Brill, 1896) on pp. 186-227

Partial translations:

• Thies, Dorothee, Die Lehren der arabischen Mediziner Tabari und Ibn Hubal über Herz, Lunge, Gallenblase und Milz , Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte des Orients 20 (Walldorf/Hessen: Verlag für Orientkunde H. Vorndran, 1968)
• Thies, Hans-Jürgen, Erkrankungen des Gehirns: inbesondere Kopfschmerzen in der arabischen Medizin , Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte des Orients 19 (Walldorf-Hessen: Verlag für Orientkunde, 1968)

Study:

• Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 162

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