Arabic MS 15 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
The first part of the medical encyclopedia by Dāʼūd ibn ʻUmar al-Anṭākī
Title: تذكرة اولي الالباب والجامع للعجب العجاب
Title: Memorial for Wise Men and Gatherer of Wondurful Things
Incipit: سبحانك يا مبدع مواد الكائنات بلا مثال سبق ... وبعد فتاضل افراد النوع الانساني ... وسميته بتذكرة اولي الالباب والجامع للعجب العجاب
Explicit: ينبوت ... او نبات مغربي اصفر يلصق بالجراحات والله اعلم. ثم الجزء الاول في المفردات ويليه الجزء الثاني في المركبات وفي تفصيل احوال الامراض
Colophon: تحريرا في ١٣ الحجة سنة ١٢٤٠
Language(s): Arabic
References
Catalogue no. Arabic MS 333 [15]
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 337 folios
History
Origin: 1240 AH (1824 CE)
Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly part of the collection of the Persian scholar Nathaniel Bland (1803-1865). Bland’s oriental manuscripts were sold through Bernard Quaritch in 1866 to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford.
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, for the John Rylands Library.
Record Sources
Catalogue record based on Alphonse Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1934).
Availability
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