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Quwá al-adwīyah قوى الأدوية Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣāʿid ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد [‎edge] (4/462)

The record is made up of Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ii+224+i. It was created in 15 Shawwāl 654. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Handbook on the potencies of materia medica by Amīn al-Dawlah Abū al-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā‘id (أمين الدولة أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد) known as Ibn al-Tilmīdh (ابن التلميذ, d. 1165), chief physician at the ‘Aḍudī Hospital in Baghdad, and later court physician to the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtafī (المقتفي, reg. 1136-1160).

After an introductory section (ff. 1v-14v), materia medica are listed alphabetically and their name are given in Arabic, Persian and Syriac (in Syriac script). Some short passages are also given in Syriac (e.g. f. 178v).

Spaces have been left blank for illustrations of the materia medica described, but only the illustration of the mandrake (يبروح, f. 222v) has been completed, and that was perhaps added by a later hand.

The copy was completed at Baghdad on 15 Shawwāl 654/5 November 1256 by Ya‘īsh ibn Jaddā (?) al-Naṣrānī al-Mutaṭabib al-Arbīlī (يعيش بن جدا النصراني المتطبب الأربيلي, see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 224r, lines 4-10, transcribed below). A note to the left of the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. states that the collation was completed in Rajab 655/July-August 1257.

The title page (f. 1r) reads:

كتاب قوى الأدوية

المفردة التي يكثر استعمالها

في تركيبات البيمارستان مرتبة

على حروف المعجم جمعها (؟) و ألّفها السيد

الأجل الفيلسوف أمين الدولة رئيس

الحكماء أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد

رحمه الله تعالى

Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):

كل ما يرد على البدن مما يجري بينهما فعل وانفعال فلا يخلو

من أن يفعل في البدن أو ينفعل عنه أو ينفعل عنه ويفعل فيه

فالذي يفعل في البدن فقط هو السم المطلق ...

Ends (ff. 223v, line 10-224r, line 1):

ويستعمل اللفاح وقشور أصله

من المركبات البيمارستانية

في الأقراص المثلثة للصداع

ويستعمل قشوره في

قراص الكوكب فاعلم ذلك

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 224r, lines 2-10):

تم الكتاب

ولله الحمد والمنة كما هو أهله

ومستحقه وذلك بمحروسة بغداد

حرسها الله تعالى في منتصف

شهر شوال من سنة أربع وخمسين وستمائة

الهلاية العربية بعون الله تعالى

كتبه العبد الفقير إلى رحمة ربه

يعيش بن جدا النصراني المتطبب

الأربيلي

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Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ii+224+i
Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 203 x 148 mm leaf [140 x 105 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 13 lines per page; vertical spacing 9 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh ; the scribe is Ya‘īsh ibn Jaddā (?) al-Naṣrānī al-Mutaṭabib al-Arbīlī (يعيش بن جدا النصراني المتطبب الأربيلي, see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 224r, lines 9-10)

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

Decoration: Calligraphic frontispiece framed in gold and blue ink, with title in black ink over gold, two rosettes in gold outlined in black at foot of title

Binding: Eastern binding in dark green/black leather, with blind-tooled borders, medallion and pendants, without flap

Condition: Title page (f. 1r) overlain with paper reinforcement with aperture cut for frontispiece; very minor tidemarks towards lower edge corner; very minor insect damage, some repaired; some folios mutilated towards tail margin and lower edge corner and repaired (except f. 17, where mutilated lower edge corner is not repaired)

Marginalia: Few

Seals: Ff. 1r, 224r, and 224v (all illegible)

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Quwá al-adwīyah قوى الأدوية Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣāʿid ابن التلميذ، هبة الله بن صاعد [‎edge] (4/462), British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Or 8294, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100069829787.0x000005> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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