Kitāb Kanz al-ḥukamāʼ wa-maṭlab al-aṭibbāʼ wa-al-ʻulamāʼ, [1612]
كتاب كنز الحكماء ومطلب الأطباء والعلماء، [1612]
Found In:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Kitāb Kanz al-ḥukamāʼ wa-maṭlab al-aṭibbāʼ wa-al-ʻulamāʼ, [1612], كتاب كنز الحكماء ومطلب الأطباء والعلماء، [1612]
Description
- Title
-
Kitāb Kanz al-ḥukamāʼ wa-maṭlab al-aṭibbāʼ wa-al-ʻulamāʼ, [1612]
كتاب كنز الحكماء ومطلب الأطباء والعلماء، [1612] - Alternative Title
-
Kanz al-ḥukamāʼ wa-maṭlab al-aṭibbāʼ wa-al-ʻulamāʼ
Kitāb Kanz al-ḥikmah
Kanz al-ḥikmah
كنز الحكماء ومطلب الأطباء والعلماء
كتاب كنز الحكمة
كنز الحكمة - Creator
-
Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century, author
مغربي، أبو سعيد بن إبراهيم، ناشط قرن 12، مؤلف - Contributor
- Khurāsānī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib, active 1612, editor.
- Published / Created
- 23 Ramaḍān, 1021 H [17 November, 1612]
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on medicine and pharmacology by Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mutaṭabbib al-Maghribī, a little known physician and pharmacologist who seems to have lived in the 12th century. The name of the author is given as "Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī" in one of his medical/pharmacological manuscript works: "Kitāb fatʹḥ al-tadāwī min jamīʻ al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī fī mufradāt al-ʻaqāqīr, [17--?]" which he dedicated to the Amīr Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad Dhū al-Qarnayn ibn ʻAyn al-Dawlah, the son of Amīr Ghāzī who seems to be the Danishmendid ruler Dhū al-Qarnayn, d. 557 H/1162 CE (OCLC 244629229). In the printed editions with slightly different titles: "Taqwīm al-adwīyah al-mufradah, aw, al-Munjiḥ fī al-tadāwī min jamīʻ al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī" as Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Saʻīd al-ʻAlāʼī (OCLC 785065773) and "Taqwīm al-adwīyah, aw, al-Munjiḥ fī al-tadāwī min ṣunūf al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī" as Abī Saʻīd Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Saʻīd al-ʻAlāʼī al-Maghribī (OCLC 796221762). The manuscript was read and collated with the copyist (whose name is not mentioned), as mentioned in the colophon, by the physician ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Khālidī (?) al-Khurāsānī (an obscure physician) on 23 Ramaḍan, 1021 H (17 November, 1612). Place of copying not mentioned, probably in Iran
- Description
-
In Arabic.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi thiqatī. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn ḥamda al-shākirīn wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá al-Nabī al-Muṣṭafá Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭāhirīn. al-Kitāb al-awwal yashtamilu ʻalá maʻrifat ḥadd al-ṭibb wa-maʻrifat juzʼayhi al-ʻilmī wa-al-ʻamalī wa-ʻalá maʻrifat al-umūr al-jawharīyah [?] lil-abdān min al-ʻanāṣir wa-al-amzijah wa-al-akhlāṭ wa-al-aʻḍāʼ al-mutashābihat al-ajzāʼ wa-al-aʻḍāʼ al-ālīyah wa-ʻalá maʻrifat al-qiwá al-ṭabīʻīyah wa-al-ḥayawānīyah wa-al-nafsānīyah ..."
18 x 30 cm ; written surface: 11.3 x 20 cm, 25 lines per page.
Islamic red leather binding.
In good naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings, keywords and marking in red; catchwords. Part 3 of the manuscript on pharmacology is profusely illustrated on the margins with beautifully colored drawings of the plants and animals mentioned in the text.
Some collations and corrections on the margins.
On title page an ownership seal in the name of Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Mūsawī.
Colophon: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Balagha qibālan wa-taṣḥīḥan wa-tadrīsan fī al-thālith wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Ramaḍān al-mubārak sanat iḥdá wa-ʻishrīn baʻda al-alf min al-Hijrah. Wa-anā al-ʻabd aqall al-mutaṭabbibīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Khālidī [?] al-Khurāsānī, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayh. 1021. Balagha muqābalatan maʻa muntasikhih." - Provenance
- Gift of Harvey Cushing.
- Extent
- 1 30 cm volume ([250] leaves) ;
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Digitization Funding Source
- Arcadia Fund, 2013
- Language
-
Arabic
Collection Information
- Repository
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Call Number
- Manuscript Arabic 3
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic Iran 17th century
Arabic manuscripts - Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Name)
- Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Materia medica, Animal
Medicinal plants
Medicine, Arab
Pharmacology - Subjects
-
Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century
Materia medica, Animal > Early works to 1800
Medicinal plants > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Arab
Pharmacology > Early works to 1800
Iran > 17th century
Arabic manuscripts
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement
- Citation
- Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm̄, Kitāb Kanz al-ḥukamāʼ wa-maṭlab al-aṭibbāʼ wa-al-ʻulamāʼ. General Collection, Medical/Historical Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11419067
- Object ID (OID)
- 10939252