Manual of therapeutics

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Manual of therapeutics based on the Book of Those Who are Not Attended By a Physician (كتاب من لا يحضره الطبيب, ff. 76v-117v) by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925) and a Collection (مجموع, ff. 117v-307v) attributed to ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن, see f. 117v, line 5).

A list of the sections of this text written by a later hand is found on ff. 75v-76r and 308r.

The manuscript from which the text was copied is said to have been completed on Tuesday 21 Ṣafar 1114/18 July 1702 (see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 307v, lines 2-9, transcribed below).

Begins (f. 76v, lines 8-10):

الباب الأول في الصداع إذا كان من حرارة ينفع منه تبريد

الدماغ بدهن اللوز وماؤه وعصارة البقلة وهي البقلة

الحمقاء والحصرم وحي العالم وخس وبزر قطونا والقرع

Ends (ff. 307r, line 15-307v, line 2):

... وقد يقوى بالمجمودة

والتربد والغاديقون على ما يقتضي الحال والله

أعلم بالصواب ...

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 307v, lines 2-12):

... وهذا ما وجدناه في تمام النسخة في

الكتاب وقد وقع الفراغ من كتابة هذا

الكتاب يوم الثلثاء واحد وعشرين

وشهر صفر المضفر (!) بالخير

لسنة ألف ومائة

وأرباتعشر (!)

من بعد الهجرة

النبوية

والحمد

لله

وحده

Extent and format

Ff. 75v-308r

It is part of

Three treatises on medicine

628 images

Ref: Or 5620

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 5620, ff 75v-308r

History of this record

Date(s)

18th 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. 46-7
• Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 32, p. 253 and Item 64, p. 55

Select Bibliography

Edition:

• Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, Man lā yaḥḍuruhu al-ṭabīb, aw, Ṭabībuka qabl wuṣūl al-ṭabīb , ed. Muḥammad Amīn al-Ḍinnāwī (Bayrūt: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyah, 1999)

Study:

• Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums , vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 287

People & organisations

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī

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