MS Arabic 475 (Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust)

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Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms by Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq

Author: Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq حنين بن اسحاق
Title: Ajzāʾ tashtamil ʿalá fuṣūl li-Buqrāṭ
Title: اجزاء تشتمل على فصول لبقراط
Title: فصول بقراط

A commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms (cf. MS Arabic 471).

Incipit: Foل. ١ب.١ Fol. 1b.1 فصول بقراط قال بقراط ويجب علي المريض طاعة الطبيب واب لا يخبر بما يزيد في مرضه بل بما ينقصه الباب الاول
Explicit: Fol. 12b.9 اذا كان الكبدي فيمن به اليرقان صلب فذلك دليل ردي من كان به يرقان فليس يكاد يتولد فيه الرياح
Language(s): Arabic

References

Ullmann Medizin, p. 28.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: European paper
Extent: 02+12 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 159 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 80 mm.
Foliation: Catchwords are written underneath the text block.

Collation

1 (14)

Condition

Sound

Layout

10

Hand(s)

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black; headings and dividers are highlighted in red and blue.

290 1:1 100 60

Decoration

Rubrication

Additions:
  • Fol. 1a: Recipe for an electuary صفه معجون المسمي دياسنتا.
  • The MS is unfinished; occasional corrections on fol. 10a.
  • Fol. 1b: A title فصول بقراط , inserted by the previous owner Iskandar Niqūlā al-Bārūdī.

History

Origin: 17th century CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Known owners: 1. Iskandar Niqūlā al-Bārūdī; 2. Sāmī Ibrāhīm Ḥaddād (1986).

Sotheby's lot 523 (22/21.11.85)

Bibliography

    Ḥaddād/Biesterfeld no. 3 (Shelf-mark: 510/260 Hf 3 / … /122b).

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