MS Arabic 424 (Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust)

Manuscripts in Arabic

1

1 copy of Intikhāb al-iqtiḍāb by Ibn Abī al-Khayr, Abū Naṣr Saʻīd al-Masīḥī

Author: Ibn Abī al-Khayr, Abū Naṣr Saʻīd al-Masīḥī, d. 1193 ابن أبي خير أبو نصر ساعد المسيحي

An abridged version of al-Masīḥī's compendium of medicine (al-Iqtiḍāb ʻalá ṭarīq al-masʼalah wa-radd ʻalá al-jawāb), written in the form of questions and answers.

The text differs from WMS Arabic 422 from the fol. 70b.10 onwards. In comparison with the manuscripts WMS Arabic nos. 422 and 423, the present manuscript has different phrasing as well as additional text. Some questions and answers are supplied with additional commentaries (الحاشية). The following folios contain the additional commentaries: fols 2a, 7a, 8a, 16a, 25a, 27a, 28a, 29b, 40a, 71b.

Incipit: (basmala) Fol. 1b.1 بسم الاب والابن والروح القدس

Incipit: Fol. 1b.2 نبتدى بعون الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه بكتابة كتاب انتخاب الاقتضاب تاليف الريس الاجل الفيلسوف الامجد الارشيدياكون المفرد في اهل زمانه والفريد عصره واوانه ابا النصر سعيد ابن ابا الخير المسيحى ابن عيسى المطبب المشتمل على طريق السول والجواب

Explicit: Fol. 139b.4 والى هنا اخر مسايل الطبيبه المشتمل على جملة علم الطب ثم قصدنا بها لتكون مدخلًا للمبتدى وتدكرة للمنتهى وفى ذلك كفاية

Language(s): Arabic

Fol. 134b.6

Title: ما هو الفرق الكاين فيما بين الاكله وبين المشرى

Fol. 134b.10

Title: ما هو الفرق الكاين فيما بين الرعده وبين الرعشة

Fol. 135a.9

Title: ما هو الفرق الكاين فيما بين الظفرة الغشايية البيضه وما بين السبل

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: tre lune watermark

Extent: 140 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 155 × 120 mm.

Dimensions (written): 105 × 65 mm.

Foliation: Pages (not folios) are numbered in Arabic numerals (until fol. 31a); they are written underneath the text block.

Collation

139+001

Condition

Deteriorated

Layout

1b-139a

139b

Hand(s)

Script: Naskh

Ink: Brown, headings and dividers are highlighted in red.

100 1:1,4 95 30 13

Decoration

Rubrication;

Binding: Christian type - blind tooling with a centrepiece which forms a cross.

Additions:

Fol.1a a calligraphic inscription, 140ab .
Fol. 140ab magical calculations, scribbles
Fols 139b faded owner's statement: هذا الكتاب الخورى اسطفان
Fols 8a, 10a, 13a, 29b, 33a - 34b, 52a, 124b, 135b Notes and corrections in margins.
Fols 27b, 32b Notes in Syriac.

Binding

cord 162mm × 112mm mm. paper; leather covers Black and natural-coloured endbands; Christian (non Islamic) type.

History

Origin: 18th cent. CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Khūrī Iṣṭafān;

Sāmī Ibrāhīm Ḥaddād (1986).

Sotheby's lot 481 (22/21.11.85)

Record Sources

Ḥaddād/Biesterfeld no. 44 (Shelf-mark: 517/598 H̱i4 / … /71), cf. Ḥaddād/Biesterfeld no. 41.

Bibliography

Ullmann Medizin p. 166, Ḥaddād/Biesterfeld no. 44 (Shelf-mark: 517/598 H̱i4 / … /71), cf. Ḥaddād/Biesterfeld no. 41.

Subjects

Medicine, Arab

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World