Quwá al-adwiyah al-mufradah قوى الأدوية المفردة Ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن أبي الأشعث، أحمد بن محمد [‎back] (2/398)

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Volume One (الجزء الأول) of a compendium on materia medica by Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath (أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي الأشعث; d. 970).

In the preface (f. 7v), the author states that the text is divided into three treatises (مقالات), but the manuscript is defective at the end, and only the first and a large portion of the second of the three treatises announced in the preface are preserved.

Contents:

• Preface (ff. 1v-7v);
• Treatise One (المقالة الأولى, ff. 7v-85v);
• Treatise Two (المقالة الثانية, ff. 86r-190v, defective at end).

Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-5):

المقالة الأولى من كتاب قوى الأدوية

المفردة على مذهب جالينوس وفيها تذكر

القوانين الكلية صنعة أبي جعفر

أحمد بن محمد المعروف بابن أبي الأشعث

Ends (f. 190v lines 18-21, defective at end):

هذا أصل و قانون عظيم المنفعة ينبغي أن يحذر منه في جميع أنواع

الأغذية وإذا كان جالينوس قال هذا القول في القثاء فكم بالجري (؟) هو

الذي يستكثر الناس من أكله في آخر الصيف ويسميه

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ii+190+iii

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 253 x 160 mm leaf [175 x 115 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. numeration (quinions) visible towards gutter margin (beginning on f. 10r); quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. signatures visible in upper edge corners of some folia

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

Script: Naskh

Ink: Brown iron-gall ink, with some rubricated division numbers and overlinings in red especially towards back of volume

Decoration: None

Binding: British Museum half-leather binding

Condition: Edge margins of ff. 1-8 mutilated and repaired; water damage obscures the text in some places (e.g. ff. 113-116 and 179-188); f. 190 is a replacement

Marginalia: Numerous by many hands

Seals: f. 1r

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

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