Arabic Manuscript. Compendium of Seven Maghrebi Texts including a Pharmacopeia
- Ink on paper, in different Maghrebi hands, catchwords; with later annotations. 1 vols. 6 x 8 inches
- [N.p., Islamic Northwest Africa , 1858
[N.p., Islamic Northwest Africa, 1858. Ink on paper, in different Maghrebi hands, catchwords; with later annotations. 1 vols. 6 x 8 inches. Twentieth-century brown Islamic wallet style binding. Loose in binding. Some leaves folded to retain annotations. Bookplates of Max Mayerhof and George Sarton (with presentation inscription from Mayerhof in Arabic and French “au Dr. Sarton”, and Sarton’s note of receipt in 1933). Ink on paper, in different Maghrebi hands, catchwords; with later annotations. 1 vols. 6 x 8 inches. Compendium of seven texts in different hands on various papers, all in Maghrebi script, two of which are dated A.H. 1181 and A.H. 1275. A later manuscript note of contents list on flyleaf: al-‘Ayashi fi al-Tibb ; wa risalat fi kayfiyyat dukhul al-hamam li-al-Shaykh [Lyaham?] al-thani ; wa risalat fi al-rub‘a al-maqantar ; wa risalatt fi al-Tibb ; wa risalat [Lyaham?] ila [?] fi al mukhammas [?] lil-Shaykh sahnoun
A) 47 pp., 19 lines in red and black, medical commentary on [Abu ‘Abd Allah] al-‘Ayashi, with a substantial pharmacopeia at end, dated in colophon A.H. 1275 [= C.E. 1858]
B) 16 pp., 19 lines in red and black, dated A.H. 1181 [= C.E. 1767], leaves detacheded and with some soiling, first page with a later inscription
C) 12 pp., 19 lines in red and black
D) 20 pp., 20 lines in black on wove paper, in two hands(?): wa inni lama ra'aytu ‘uqul al-zall(?) waqtana ha'irat fi kunh hadhihi al‘illat al-lati zahat bi al-Hind wa ja'at fi iqilim wa buldan. Historical discussion of medical conditions, from pre-Islamic times (including Galen).
E) 20 pp., 19 lines in black, narrow page composition, prose and verse devotional text
F) 17 pp., 19 lines in red and black [similar hand as A]: fa yaqul al-‘bd al-faqir ila allah subhanahu Sahnun bin ‘Uthman […] Qad sa'alni b‘ad al-ilkhwan tahrir al-maqalatfi kayfiyat al-mukhammas khali al-qalb … With two tables of numbers (good and evil) and a table of letter combinations. Discussing spiritual names and satanic names and numerology.
G) Single leaf, 74 lines, commentary on a passage in al-Ghazzali
Max Meyerhof (1874-1945) was a German-born ophthalmologist and scholar of mediaeval Arabic medicine long resident in Egypt (see H.S. Sugar, Max Meyerhof, The Man and His Works, Hist ophthal intern. 2: 381-95 [1982]).
Geroge Sarton (1884-1956) established the history of science as a scholarly discipline and from the late 1920s incorporated the study of the sciences in the Arab world into his work.
A) 47 pp., 19 lines in red and black, medical commentary on [Abu ‘Abd Allah] al-‘Ayashi, with a substantial pharmacopeia at end, dated in colophon A.H. 1275 [= C.E. 1858]
B) 16 pp., 19 lines in red and black, dated A.H. 1181 [= C.E. 1767], leaves detacheded and with some soiling, first page with a later inscription
C) 12 pp., 19 lines in red and black
D) 20 pp., 20 lines in black on wove paper, in two hands(?): wa inni lama ra'aytu ‘uqul al-zall(?) waqtana ha'irat fi kunh hadhihi al‘illat al-lati zahat bi al-Hind wa ja'at fi iqilim wa buldan. Historical discussion of medical conditions, from pre-Islamic times (including Galen).
E) 20 pp., 19 lines in black, narrow page composition, prose and verse devotional text
F) 17 pp., 19 lines in red and black [similar hand as A]: fa yaqul al-‘bd al-faqir ila allah subhanahu Sahnun bin ‘Uthman […] Qad sa'alni b‘ad al-ilkhwan tahrir al-maqalatfi kayfiyat al-mukhammas khali al-qalb … With two tables of numbers (good and evil) and a table of letter combinations. Discussing spiritual names and satanic names and numerology.
G) Single leaf, 74 lines, commentary on a passage in al-Ghazzali
Max Meyerhof (1874-1945) was a German-born ophthalmologist and scholar of mediaeval Arabic medicine long resident in Egypt (see H.S. Sugar, Max Meyerhof, The Man and His Works, Hist ophthal intern. 2: 381-95 [1982]).
Geroge Sarton (1884-1956) established the history of science as a scholarly discipline and from the late 1920s incorporated the study of the sciences in the Arab world into his work.