Kitāb fī-dafʿ al-maḍarr al-kullīyah li-l-abdān al-insānīyah كتاب في دفع المضار الكلية للأبدان الإنسانية Avicenna ابن سينا

Content

Treatise on hygiene by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The text is also known as Treatise on the Obviation of the Errors Occuring in Medical Treatment (المقالة في تدارك الخطأ الواقع في التدبير الطبي), hence the Latin title Libellus de removendis nocumentis quae accidunt in regimine sanitatis . The text is addressed to Abū al-Husayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Suhaylī al-Khwārizmī (أبو الحسين أحمد بن محمد السهيلي الخوارزمي, d. 1027, see references in Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums , vol. 3, p. 334, who mistakenly attributes this text to its addressee). In this copy, the addressee's name is given as Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Sahalī (أبو الحسن أحمد بن محمد السهلي, see f. 178v, line 2, transcribed below).

Folio 208 is a replacement by a later and much rougher hand.

Begins (f. 178v, lines 1-4):

قال الرئيس قدس ... الله روحه

الحمد لله حق حمده وصلواته على رسوله المصطفى محمد النبي وآله

وبعد فإن الشيخ الجليل السيد أبا الحسن أحمد بن محمد السهلي

وهو ممن عرف بعلو الهمة وشرف الأرومة ومحبة العلوم الحقيقة

Ends (f. 208r, line 10-208v, line 1, mutilated):

... فإنه الأصل فإن ...

وأما منع الإسهال ..

في الكتب وليكن هذا كافيًا في غرضنا ...

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 208v, lines 1-2):

... تم

الكتاب والحمد الله (!) رب العالمين

Extent and format

Ff. 178v-208v

It is part of

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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Ref: Or 5820

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 5820, ff 178v-208v

History of this record

Date(s)

1094 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Related material

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

Select Bibliography

Edition:

• Avicenna, 'Kitāb dafʿ al-maḍarr al-kullīyah ʿan al-abdān al-insānīyah', in Min mu’allafāt Ibn Sīnā al-ṭibbīyah , ed. by Muḥammad Zuhayr al-Bābā (Ḥalab: Jāmi‘at Ḥalab, 1984), pp. 2-73

Latin Translation:

• Avicenna, 'Libellus Avicennae de removendis nocumentis quae accidunt in regimine sanitatis', in Avicennæ libri canonis de medicinis cordialibus et cantica (Basileæ: Ioannes Heruagios, 1556)

Studies:

• Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums , vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 334 (misattributed to al-Suhaylī)
• Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 191

People & organisations

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khwārizmī SuhaylīAvicenna

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