al-Jāmiʿ fī al-adwīyah al-mufradah الجامع في الأدوية المفردة Ibn Samajūn, Ḥāmid حامد، ابن سمجون
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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+201+ii. It was created in 13th century. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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Part Two (الجزء الثاني) of a multi-volume work on materia medica by Abū Bakr Ḥāmid ibn Samajūn (أبو بكر حامد بن سمجون, fl. ca 1000). The work, also known as the Compendium of Statements of the Ancient and Modern Physicians and Philosophers on Simple Drugs (الجامع لأقوال القدماء والمتحدثين من الأطباء والمتفلسفين في الأدوية المفردة), is arranged alphabetically following the ancient Semitic abjad order. This volume contains the sections on letters zāy to lām .
- Letter Zāy (حرف الزاي, ff. 1v- 47v);
- Letter Ḥā’ (حرف الحاء, ff. 47v-114r);
- Letter Ṭā’ (حرف الطاء, ff. 114v-137v);
- Letter Yā’ (حرف الياء, ff. 137v-150v);
- Letter Kāf (حرف الكاف, ff. 150v-186r);
- Letter Lām (حرف اللام, ff. 186r-201r).
At the head of the title page (f. 1r), a reader has mistakenly added the title The Book of What Cannot be Ignored by the Physician (كتاب ما لا يسع الطبيب جهله), which belongs to a later treatise on materia medica by Yūsuf ibn Ismā‘īl ibn Ilyās al-Khūwaīyī al-Baghdādī al-Kutubī (يوسف بن إسماعيل بن إلياس الخويي البغدادي الكتبي, d. 1353).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 1-5):
الجزء الثاني من الأدوية المفردة
حرف الزاي زنجبيل قال أبو حنيفة الدينوري الزنجبيل
مما ينبت بالشام العرب في أرض عمان وهو عروق تسري في الأرض وليس (؟) تشجر
وأخبرني من رآه قال نباته نبات الرأس وهم يأكلونه رطبًا كما يأكلون الناس
البقل ...
Ends (f. 201r, lines 2-5):
وأما النوع الآخر المتحد من حل الهاور من النحاس الأحمر
ودستجه ببول الصبيان الذي يسحق وهو حار فهو أشد
يبسًا وأشد لطافة وأقل بكاية من الجراحات الحادثة من
الـ[...] الوجع
Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 201r, lines 6-10):
تم الحرف اللام ويتلوه
في الجزء الثالث حرف
الميم إن شاء الله وأوله
مسك
والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلواته على سيدنا محمد وآله
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- Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ii+201+ii
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Material: Eastern laid paper
Dimensions: 235 x 165 mm leaf [150 x 105 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah ; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 16 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh
Ink: Brown iron-gall ink, with rubricated lemmata, headings and some punctuation
Decoration: Large calligraphic hā’ s (for انتهاء) in red ink around colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. and punctuation mark of three dots and three lines also in red ink (f. 201r)
Binding: British Museum half-leather binding; the binding mentioned by Fulton (1937, p. 83) is not kept with the manuscript and its whereabouts are not known; damage to f. 23 indicates that the manuscript was previously bound in a binding with flap
Condition: All folios guarded, iron-gall ink corrosion repaired in some places with some loss of text, ff. 1-2 and 201 mutilated with minimal loss of text
Marginalia: Few by more than one hand
Seals: None
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- Arabic in Arabic script
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- Or 11614
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- 13th century (CE, Gregorian)
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Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 92, p. 87
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Studies:
- Fulton, A. S., 'Arabic Medical Manuscripts', The British Museum Quarterly 11.2 (1937), pp. 81-83
- Käs, Fabian, Die Mineralien in der arabischen Pharmakognosie: eine Konkordanz zur mineralischen Materia medica der klassischen arabischen Heilmittelkunde nebst überlieferungsgeschichtlichen Studien (Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2010), pp. 58-61
- Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums , vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 316-17
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 267
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