A collection of treatises on medicine and pharmacology

Content

Treatises and excerpts on medicine and pharmacology, four of which are by Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī (نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي, d. 1222). Collections of medical works by al-Samarqandī often circulated in various compilations under the collective title al-Najībīyah al-Samarqandīyah (النجيبية السمرقندية).

Colophons to the second, third and fourth texts indicate that the volume was transcribed in mid-1576 (Rabīʿ I-II 984) by an un-named scribe.

Contents:

• (1) Sijzī (سجزي), Ḥaqāʾiq asrār al-ṭibb (حقائق أسرار الطب, ff. 1r-37v);
• (2) Samarqandī (سمرقندي), Uṣūl al-tarākīb (أصول التراكيب, ff. 38r-68r);
• (3) Samarqandī (سمرقندي), Dhikr al-adwiyah al-mufradah (ذكر الأدوية المفردة, ff. 68v- 81v);
• (4) Samarqandī (سمرقندي), Kitāb aghdhiyat al-marḍá (كتاب أغذية المرضى, ff. 82r-99r);
• (5) Samarqandī (سمرقندي), al-Qarābādhīn ʿalá tartīb al-ʿilal (القراباذين على ترتيب العلل, ff. 99v-163v).

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. 163

It is grouped into

Ḥaqāʾiq asrār al-ṭibb حقائق أسرار الطب Sijzī, Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad سجزي، مسعود بن محمد

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Ref: Or 14155, ff 1r-37v

Uṣūl al-tarākīb أصول التراكيب Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي

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Ref: Or 14155, ff 38r-68r

Dhikr al-adwiyah al-mufradah ذكر الأدوية المفردة Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي

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Ref: Or 14155, ff 68v-80v

Kitāb aghdhiyat al-marḍá كتاب أغذية المرضى Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي

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Ref: Or 14155, ff 82r-98v

al-Qarābādhīn ʿalá tartīb al-ʿilal القراباذين على ترتيب العلل Najīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī نجيب الدين السمرقندي، محمد بن علي

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Ref: Or 14155, ff 99v-163v

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 240 x 178mm leaf [167x 104mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 20 lines per page; vertical spacing 12 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh , with muḥaqqaq headings in the fifth text

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

Decoration: None

Binding: Brown leather binding with central stamped mandorla and gold-tooled vertical lines parallel to spine and fore edge; impression of stamp visible through paper of inside back and front covers.

Condition: Generally good, some staining

Marginalia: A few marginal notes and corrections; some notes in Persian (see ff. 1r, 16v, 81r and 81v)

Seals: ff. 81r and 163v; British Library seal (ff. 1r and 163v)

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 14155

History of this record

Date(s)

984 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Provenance

• Other inventory numbers: 368; 1166; 1185 (inside front cover);
• Muḥammad Ibrahīm ibn Muḥammad Shafīʿ, physician (محمد ابرهيم ابن محمد شفيع طبيب): his ownership inscription and seal with partially-obscured date 1145/1732-33 (f. 163v);
• al-Ḥājjī ʿAbd al-Husayn, son of [the deceased] al-Ḥājjī Qāsim [ laqab obscured] (الحاجي عبد الحسين ولد المرحوم الحاجي قاسم...): his inscription and seal, with date 1155/1742-43 (f. 81r).

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased 1983 from Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962); Collection no. 968

Subjects

Pharmacology--Early works to 1800Medicine--Early works to 1800

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