al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الحاوي في الطب Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا

Content

Parts (أجزاء) eight, nine, and ten of the Kitāb al-Ḥāwī (كتاب الحاوي, Liber continens ), an encyclopaedic medical compendium by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925).

The volume comprises two separate codicological units (manuscripts):

Parts Eight and Nine (الجزء الثامن والجزء التاسع, ff. 1r-274v);

Part Ten (الجزء العاشر, ff. 275r-415v).

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. ii+415+iii

It is grouped into

al-Juz’ al-thāmin wa-al-juz’ al-tāsi‘ min al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الجزء الثامن والجزء التاسع من الحاوي في الطب Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا

548 images

Ref: Arundel Or 14, ff 1r-274v

al-Juz’ al-‘āshir min kitāb al-ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb الجزء العاشر من كتاب الحاوي في الطب Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا

282 images

Ref: Arundel Or 14, ff 275r-415v

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 215 x 150 mm leaf [170 x 110 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. marks partially visible on some folia (see e.g. ff. 67r and 68r)

Ruling: Misṭarah ; ff. 3v-274v: 21 lines per page; vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cm; ff. 275v-415v: 17 lines per page; vertical spacing 10 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh ; more than one hand, changes of scribal hand noticeable at ff. 72r, 101r, 163r, 221r, and 275r

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

Decoration: None

Binding: British Museum maroon half-leather binding, both covers gilt tooled with coat of arms and legend 'Bibliotheca Arundeliana'; indications that previous bindings had envelope flaps (ff. 1, 2, and 275)

Condition: Minor insect damage, some repaired; some bleed-through of iron-gall ink

Marginalia: Few by more than one hand

Seals: None

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Arundel Or 14

History of this record

Date(s)

14th and 15th century (CE, Gregorian)

Provenance

• al-Dimashqī (الدمشقي), rest of name unclear: his inscription, with date Friday 28 Ṣafar 884/21 May 1479 (f. 1v);
• Ismā‘īl (إسمعيل), rest of name erased: his inscription, with date 727/1326-27, rest of date erased (f. 3r);
• Inscription, mostly erased, with date 711/1311-12 (f. 3r);
• Inscription, with date 4 Rabī‘ I 884/26 May 1479 (f. 3r);
• Further owners' inscriptions erased and illegible (f. 3r);
• The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 3r);
• ‘Abd al-Wāḥid al-Yahūdī (عبد الواحد اليهودي): his inscription, without date (f. 3v);
• ‘Uthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Hishām (عثمن بن محمد بن هشام): his inscription, without date (f. 275r);
• ? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
• Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831

Related material

Finding aids

• Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 446, pp. 221
• Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 63, pp. 55

Select Bibliography

Edition:

• Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, Kitāb al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb , ed. by ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bukhārī et al., 23 volumes in 25 (Ḥaydar Ābād al-Dakan: Maṭbaʻat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʻārif al-ʻUthmānīyah, 1958-81)

Latin translation:

• Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, Liber Helchauy. idest continens artem medicine & dicta predecesso[rum] in hac facultate conmendato[rum] , ed. by Hieronymus Salius Fauentinus (Impressum Venetijs: Mandato & sumptibus Heredum Octauiani Scoti Modoetiensis per Bonetum Locatellum Bergomensem presbyterum, 1506)

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. 1-26
• Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums , vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 278-80
• Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 130-31

Subjects

Medicine--Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī

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