Four treatises on pharmacopoeia, cookery and craft techniques

Content

• Ṣināʿat al-yad (صناعة اليد, ff. 1r-67v, defective at beginning);
• Ibn Zuhr (ابن زهر), Kitāb al-aghdhiyyah (كتاب الأغذية, ff 68r-100r, defective at beginning and end);
• Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī (ابن رزين التجيبي), Fiḍālat al-khiwān fī ṭayyibāt al-ṭaʻām wa-al-alwān (فضالة الخوان في طيبات الطعام والألوان, ff. 101r-204v, defective at end);
• Anonymous treatise on craft techniques (ff. 205r-217v, defective at end).

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+219+i (plus five unfoliated leaves after ff. 11, 34, 101, 208 and 217)

It is grouped into

Ṣināʿat al-yad صناعة اليد Anonymous

138 images

Ref: Or 5927, ff 1r-67v

[Kitāb al-aghdhiyyah] [كتاب الأغذية] [Ibn Zuhr, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ] [ابن زهر، عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء]

65 images

Ref: Or 5927, ff 68r-100r

[Fiḍālat al-khiwān fī ṭayyibāt al-ṭaʻām wa-al-alwān فضالة الخوان في طيبات الطعام والألوان] [Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī ابن رزين التجيبي]

210 images

Ref: Or 5927, ff 101r-204v

Anonymous treatise on craft techniques

28 images

Ref: Or 5927, ff 205r-217v

Physical characteristics

Material: Western laid paper, with watermark in the shape of a hand (see e.g. f. 67)

Dimensions: 275 x 170 mm leaf [200 x 130 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭara ; 31 lines per page; vertical spacing 16 lines per 10 cm

Script: Maghribī

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

Decoration: None

Binding: British Museum half-leather binding

Condition: Defective at beginning and end; tidemarks at head and tail, ff. 1-27, 100 and 188 mutilated and repaired; some iron-gall ink corrosion repaired

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

Or 5927

History of this record

Date(s)

15th or 16th century (CE, Gregorian)

Context of creation

North West Africa or Spain

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from David Fetto, 30 March 1901

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. 47
• Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item II.16, pp. 249-50

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