MS Arabic 440 (Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust)
Manuscripts in Arabic
1
Contents
1 copy of al-Qawāʿid fī al-ṭibb by Shihāb al-Dīn al-Kāzarūnī
A complete description of various diseases and their treatment. The manuscript does not contain a proper introduction, with the title of the work and the author clearly indicated. The title is written on fol. 1a in the following form كڻاب العواعد ڦى الطب لسهاب الدڻڻ الكارروڻى. The name of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Kāzarūnī (as opposed to Sadīd al-Dīn al-Kāzarūnī - cf. Ullmann Medizin 272) was not identified by to F. Ḥaddād and H.H. Biesterfeld (cf. Ḥaddād/Biesterfeld p. 107). However, the name of the author as well as the title of the work (Kitāb al-Qawā`id) appears in a reference note found in a manuscript described by W. Ahlwardt (cf. Ahlwardt Katalog no. 6291 fols 147, 150). Cf. also WMS Arabic no. 441, which seems to have been a part of this manuscript.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
7
Hand(s)
Script: Naskh (occasional punctuation)
Scribe: احمدابن ابي بكر ابن احمد بن السديد ( Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr b. Aḥmad b. al-Sadīd )
Ink: Black, headings and dividers are highlighted in red.
240 1:0,6 85 45- This manuscript and the following (WMS Arabic 441) may have originally been one codex.
- Fol. 16a الشيخ الحاج سعيد بن الشيخ تقى.
- Fol. 47b امانه الشيخ تقى
Accompanying Material
1. This manuscript and the following (WMS Arabic 441) may have originally been one codex.2. Fol. 16a الشيخ الحاج سعيد بن الشيخ تقى3. Fol. 47b امانه الشيخ تقى
History
Provenance and Acquisition
al-Shaykh al-Ḥajj Saʿīd b. al-Shaykh Taqī;
Sāmī Ibrāhīm Ḥaddād (1986). (See also WMS Arabic 441.)
Sotheby's lot 497 (22/21.11.85)