MS Arabic 433 (Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust)
Manuscripts in Arabic
Contents
1 copy of ʻUyūn al-anbāʼ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʼ by Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʻah, Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim
Medical biographies, vol. 2 (cf. MS Arabic 432). This copy does not entirely correspond to the edition ( A. Müller 2 vols, Cairo and Königsberg 1882 - 1884). The text ends with the biography of Fatḥ al-Dīn b. Jamāl al-Dīn b. Abī al-Ḥawāfir.
Incipit: (basmala) Fol. 1b.1 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Incipit: Fol. 1b.2 الباب الحادى عشر فى طبقات الاطباء الذين ظهرو في بلاد العجم
Explicit: Fol. 157b.13 لم يوجد شرح الاشارات
Language(s): Arabic
Fol. 31a.3
Title: الباب الثاني عشر في طبقات الاطباء الدين كانو (sic!) من الهند
Fol. 34b.14
Title: [لباب الثالث عشر] These words are missing; space left.
Fol. 38a.4
Title: و من اطباء الاندلس [يحيى بن يحى] المعروف بابن السمسه
Fol. 61b.8
Title: [لباب الرابع عشر فى طبقات الاطباء المشهورين من اطباء ديار مصر] These words are missing ;space left.
Fol. 96b.10
Title: الباب الخامس عشر في طبقات الاطباء المشهورين من اطباء الشام
References
Ullmann Medizin, p. 231.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 162 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 160 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 95 mm.
Foliation: Pages (not folios) are numbered with Arabic numerals; Catchwords are written underneath the text block.
Collation
01+157+004
Lack of visibility to distinguish between the gatherings. Layout
8 2a-157b
1b 8
Hand(s)
Script: Nastaʿlīq
Ink: Black; headings are occasionally highlighted in red.
310 1:2 85 60 17Decoration
Rubrication
Space has been left for ʿunwān
Additions:
- Lacuna between fols. 72 and 73.
- Fol. 157b Important notes in margins (in Persian) stating the incompleteness of this MS: كتاب به همين طور از نسخه غلط استنساخ شده
مخفى نماند كه اين نسخه از روى نسخه نوشته شد كه در سنه ششصد واند دو نفر بچه غير متميز از اطفال متولين يكي مى گفته وديگري مى نوشته نوشته شد المامور معزور
Binding
221 × 179 mm. Leather / paper covers; Endbands: Textile, stuck-on.
Fols. 1a, 157b Iranian censorship seal (1314 AH / 1896 - 1897 AD) with added verification - cf. MS Arabic nos. 409, 414, 432.
History
Origin: 4 Ṣafar 1294 A.H.; 1877 CE
Bibliography
Ḥaddād/Biesterfeld no.59 (Shelf-mark: 430/668 U` / 1294 /131b).