Medicine [IO Islamic 1802]

Medicine.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1802 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 774 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

774.

1802. Size 103/4 in. by 61/2in.; foll. 179. Sixteen lines in a page.

Some portions of the first or theoretic part of ‘Alâ al-dîn ‘ALÎ B. AL-ABBÂS MAJÛSÎ’S (d. A.H. 384) System of Medicine, entitled كامل الصناعة . It is also often called الملكى , the ‘’royal’’ book, from its dedication to ‘Aḍud al-daulah, the Bûyide. See Ḥ. Kh. v. 25; Cat. Lugd. iii. 236; Cat. Mus. Brit. 631; Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 357; etc. Cf. Wüstenfeld, Gesch. d. arab. Aerzte, p. 59. Latin translations of the work were printed at Venice, 1492, and at Leyden, 1523.

This MS. comprises the fifth, sixth, seventh, and tenth books (مقالة) , all separate , and bound in the following order : (fol.1) المقالة السابعة من الجزء الاول فى الاستدلال النبض ( بالنبض . r ) و البول و البراز و النفث و العرق 1 ; (fol. 48) المقالة العاشرة من الجزء الاول فى صفة علامات المُنذرة 1 ; (fol. 94) المقالة الخامسة من الجزء الاول فى الامور التى ليست بطبيعية ; (fol. 136) المقالة السادسة من الجزء الاول فى صفة الامور الخارجة عن الامر الطبيعى .

Plainly written. Of the twelfth century. The end is injured by damp. Foll. 168 and 175 should be transposed.

[Johnson.]

1 This inscription varies from that given in Cat. Lugd., l.c.