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

Content

Treatise on dietetics by the Andalusian physician Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ Zuhr (أبو مروان عبد الملك بن أبي العلاء زهر, d. 1162), known as Ibn Zuhr (ابن زهر), Latinised as Avenzoar. The copy is defective at beginning and the surviving text mentiones neither the author nor the title of the work. The text can be identified, however, by comparison with the edition by García Sánchez (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Instituto de Cooperación con el Mundo Árabe, 1992).

The text is followed by a note on magical formulas written by the same hand as the note on f. 67r-v.

Begins (f. 68r, lines 1-3, defective at beginning; see ed. García Sánchez, p. 10, lines 10-11):

ولا في كذلك كلا فإن اختلاف المزاج يضعف قوة الأبدان

ذكر أي الأخباز أفضل

أفضل الأخباز خبز الحنطة المختمر الذي طبخ في التنور

Ends (f. 100, lines 13-17; see ed. García Sánchez, p. 146, lines 17-19):

... ولا تخيلنا

شيئًا مما نتخيله والذي ندركه كثيرًا جدًا والحمد لله على ما أنعم

به وهدانا إليه وإياه نسئل أن يلهمنا مراشدنا وأن يوفقنا ويسددنا

وأن يجعل ابتغاء مرضاته أعمالنا فقدرته سبحانه وصلى الله

على البشير النذير والسراج المنير محمد النبي الكريم وعلى آله وسمل تسليمًا

Extent and format

Ff. 68r-100r

It is part of

Four treatises on pharmacopoeia, cookery and craft techniques

460 images

Ref: Or 5927

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 5927, ff 68r-100r

History of this record

Date(s)

15th or 16th century (CE, Gregorian)

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

Subjects

Medicine--Early works to 1800

People & organisations

‘Abd al-Malik ibn Abī al-‘Alā’ Ibn Zuhr

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