MS. Huntington donat. 31 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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8 works by 3 authors on the subject of Medicine

1. ff. 208r-228v; 229r-245v
Author: Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925? بن زکریّا محمد أبو بكر الرازي
Title: al-Ṭibb al-Manṣūrī

Chapters 1 [incomplete] and 7

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 234
[UAM. 529 (4) and (5), with corrig. Nicoll p. 585
2. ff. 3v-108r
Author: Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, 10th/11th cent.
Title: Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah
Title: Kitāb al-Malakī

Pt. 2 bk. 9 [complete] and bk. 10 [incomplete (to two thirds of way through bāb 25)]

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 237
[UAM. 529 (1)]
3. ff. 109r-118r
Author: Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, 10th/11th cent.
Title: Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah
Title: Kitāb al-Malakī

Pt. 2 bk. 10, last part of bāb 20 - bāb 29 (i.e. end of work)

bāb nos. are "one less" in this copy than in fols. 3-108 of this MS. bāb 23 here equals bāb 24 there, etc.

Language(s): Arabic

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GAL I 237
[UAM. 529 (1)]
4. ff. 121v-166r
Author: Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925? بن زکریّا محمد أبو بكر الرازي
Title: 162 aphorisms on medicine [?= part of al-Fuṣūl* fī al-ṭibb, known also as al-Murshid, or ?= a collection of aphorisms such as Brock. 43 (47)].

*The Fuṣūl were publ. in Latin trans, at Leiden in 1489 and 1510 (see Brock.). Compare MS. and trans.?

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 234
[UAM. 529 (2 [1]) with corrig. Nicoll p. 585]
5. ff. 166v-172r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Waṣīyat al-ḥakīm Banādiq li-kisrá Anūshirwān

Advice on various matters of hygiene and health

*text trails off on f. 172r

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Medicine
[UAM. 529 (2 [ii])]
6. ff. 172v-174v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Kitāb al-ikhtilājāt

ff. 172v and first half of 173r are on the usefulness of various drugs

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Medicine
[UAM. 529 (2 [ii])]
7. ff. 175r-177v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fragments on medical matters, including soporifics, and an anecdote concerning Solomon
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Medicine
[UAM. 529 (2 [ii])]
8. ff. 178 -207)
Author: Anonymous
Title: Luqāṭ al-manāfiʻ
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 505
[UAM. 529 (3)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
21 ff; 17 ff. 106 ff. 10 ff. 46 ff. 7 ff. [incomplete*]. 3 ff. [lacks beg.]. 3 ff. [lacking beg.]. 30 ff.

History

Origin: 1390 or 1392 CE ?15th cent. CE 1161 CE 1390 CE n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by Robert Huntington, d. 1701 between 1678-1683.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

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JISC

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