Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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 17

Decoration

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.

Seal(s):

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

Provenance and Acquisition

Sāmī Ibrāhīm Ḥaddād (1986).

Sotheby's lot 490 (22/21.11.85)

Bibliography

    Ḥaddād/Biesterfeld no.59 (Shelf-mark: 430/668 U` / 1294 /131b).

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