Medicine [IO Islamic 1142]

Medicine. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1142 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 790 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 790. 1142. Size 10 in. by 6 in.; foll. 550. Twenty-one lines in a page. IBN BAIṬÂR’S (‘Abdallah b. Aḥmad Mâliḳî, d. A.H. 646) Materia Medica, called الجامع , or جامع مفردات الادوية و الاغذية . Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 34; Casiri, i. 275 sqq.; Catal. St. Petersb. 107; and Wüstenfeld, Gesch. d. arab. Aerzte, p. 130. This work has been translated into German by Dr. Joseph von Sontheimer (two vols., Stuttgart, 1840-42). Cf. Dozy in Zeitschr. d. Deutsch. morgenl. Ges. xxiii. 183. Begins: الحمد لله الذى اقام بلطيف حكمته بنية الانسان. An elegant copy, written in a small hand, by ‘Alî b. Ḥusain b. Maḥmûd Kamâl. Dated Friday, 22nd Sha’bân, 925. An ornament at the beginning. Gold and blue lines round the page. Injured in several places. [Johnson.]