al-Tuḥfah al-saʿdīyah التحفة السعدية Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd قطب الدين الشيرازي، محمود بن مسعود
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The record is made up of Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ii+676+iv. It was created in 17th century-18th century. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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Commentary by Quṭb al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn Mas‘ūd al-Shīrāzī (قطب الدين محمود بن مسعود الشيرازي; d. 1310, see f. 2v, line 10 ) on the Colliget (كتاب الكلية), the first book of the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب) by Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, d. 1037). Al-Shīrāzī composed the commentary in the context of his work as a physician and ophthalmologist at the Muẓaffarī Hospital (المارستان المظفري) in Shīrāz where he was employed for fourteen years (f. 4r, lines 6-7). He completed the commentary in 682/1283 (see f. 5r, line 23), dedicating it to Sa‘d al-Dīn (سعد الدين, see f. 5v, line 23), vizier to the Il Khānid sultan Muḥammad Khudābandah Ūljāytū (محمد خدابنده أولجايتو, reg. 1304-16), whence its title The Sa‘dian Gift (التحفة السعدية).
The text is defective at end, breaking off abrubtly in the second fann (فن).
Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-4):
إن أولى ما افتتح به خطاب وإحدى ما ابتداء به كتاب حمد الله المنعم بحيوة النفوس
وصحة الأجسام المنقذ من الأدواء المعضلة والأسقام الشافي بما ركب في الورى من
القوي الحافظة للصحة المبرئة من الألام الكافي بحا فهم من صناعة الطب ...
Ends (f. 676v, lines 15-18, defective at end):
الفصل الخامس في علامات من ليس يجيد الحال في خلقته سواء كان الاختلاف في أعضائه
في الشهيات وفي الأمزجة على ما هو المذكور في الفصل وفي بعض النسخ يوجد الفصل شرحًا بتفسير هذا
ما الترجمة هكذا في علامات من خرج عن الاعتدال بإفراط وهذه النسخة ليست بصحيحة لأن
المذكور في الفصل لا يناسب هذه الترجمة فإن من إفراط خروجه عن الاعتدال كان مريضًا
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- Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ii+676+iv
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 270 x 170 mm leaf [written area varies as scribal hand changes]
Foliation: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Library foliation pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah ; 23-24 lines per page; number of lines and vertical spacing varies as scribal hand changes
Script: Naskh ; numerous scribal hands are discernable
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: None
Binding: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. binding with marbled boards, fragments of previous spine removed during conservation work are contained in box with manuscript
Condition: Insect damage some repaired, foxing, tidemarks towards head and tail
Marginalia: Moderate amount by more than one hand, many lost or partially lost due to page trimming especially towards end of volume
Seals: ff. 2r and 676v
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- Arabic in Arabic script
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- British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
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- IO Islamic 854
- Date(s)
- 17th century-18th century (CE, Gregorian)
- Provenance
- East India Company Library, its seal (ff. 2r and 676v);
- Ikhlāṣ Ikhtiṣāṣ (إخلاص اختصاص): his seal and inscription, with date 1130/1717-8 (ff. 2r and 676v [seal only]);
- Richard Johnson (رچارد جانسن, d. 1807, East India Company Resident in Hyderabad 1784-5): his inscription in Persian, without date (ff. 2r).
- Immediate source of acquisition
From the library of Richard Johnson (1753-1807), incorporated into the collection of the East India House in 1807.
- Finding aids
Loth, Otto, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. (London: Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1877), Item 779, p. 228
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Edition of text commented upon:
- Ibn Sīnā, Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb , ed. by Idwār al-Qashsh, 2nd edition, 4 vols (Bayrūt: Muʾassasat ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1993)
Translation of text commented upon:
- Gruner, Oskar Cameron, A Treatise on the Canon of Medicine of Avicenna: Incorporating a Translation of the First Book (London: Luzac, 1930)
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. 43-7
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 178
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