Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان and Kitāb al-ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmāwī كتاب الطب الجديد الكيماوي Ibn Sallūm ابن سلوم

Content

• (1) Ibn Sallūm (ابن سلوم), Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان), ff. 3v-178r);
• (2) Ibn Sallūm (ابن سلوم), Kitāb al-ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmāwī (كتاب الطب الجديد الكيماوي, ff. 179r-212v).

Before the main texts are notes on medical topics (ff. 1r-3r), which consists mostly of a list of 'obscure names [of medicinal substances] ... and their explanations' (الأسماء الملغزة ... وتفسيرها, ff. 1r-2v).

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+212+iv

It is grouped into

Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان Ḥalabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم

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Ref: Or 6905, ff 3v-178r

Kitāb al-ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmāwī ta’līf Barākalsūs al-jarmānī wa-Kitāb Karūlīyūs ayḍan كتاب الطب الجديد الكيماوي تأليف براكلسوس الجرماني وكتاب كروليوس أيضًا Ḥalabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm حلبي، صالح نصر الله بن سلوم

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Ref: Or 6905, ff 179r-212v

Physical characteristics

Material: Western laid paper

Dimensions: 305 x 205 mm leaf [240 x 135 mm written]

Foliation: Eastern Arabic pagination in black ink, British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 30 lines per page; vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh ; the scribe is Brāhīm walad Līyās al-‘Aqqād (براهيم ولد لياس العقاد, ff. 178r and 212r)

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings

Decoration: None

Binding: British Museum binding

Condition: Bleedthrough of iron-gall ink on most folios

Marginalia: Very few

Seals: f. 178

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 6905

History of this record

Date(s)

1229 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Context of creation

Dayr al-Qamar (Lebanon)

Provenance

Five semi-legible seals (f. 178r);

Anṭūn al-Ḥakīm (أنطون الحكيم): his inscription, without date (f. 212r)

Sulaymān ibn Anṭūn al-Ḥakīm (سليمان بن أنطون الحكيم): his inscription, without date (ff. 178r and 212r);

John R. Wortabet (1827-1908): His notes in English regarding the titles of the works contained in this manuscript on two slips of his headed paper (inserted between ff. 92 and 93).

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from John R. Wortabet (1827-1908), 10 October 1908

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. 46

Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 325, p. 240

Subjects

Medicine--Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm Ḥalabī

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Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān غاية الاتقان في تدبير بدن الإنسان and Kitāb al-ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmāwī كتاب الطب الجديد الكيماوي Ibn Sallūm ابن سلوم, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Or 6905, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100059288113.0x000001> [accessed 19 September 2024]

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