Haddad manuscripts collection

An on-line Catalogue of the Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts
(Al-Haddad Collection)

prepared by Nikolaj Serikoff

Wellcome MS Arabic 404

Contents of this record

Codicological description

Physical description

Ink:	black
Paper:	Oriental
Dimensions :	14x19 (105x145)
Folios:	65
Quires:	1~-- 2 8; 3~-- 4 9 ;5 6; 6 2; 7 6; 8 9
Lines :	20
Script :	naskh
Pace :	lines: 20; Density: 460; Ratio: 1:1; Alef angle: 95; Kaf angle: 40
Catchwords:	are written under the text block.
State of preservation:	mediocre

Description of hands

Copy date (approximate):

18th cent.

History of manuscript

Provenance:	known owners: S?mī Ibr?hīm Ḥadd?d (1986).
Acquisition:	Sotheby's lot 461 (22/21.11.85)

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Description of texts

Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.1

Language:	Arabic
Subject:	Medicine
Title transliterated:	Kit?b aḏ-Ḏaẖīra fī `ilm aṭ-Ṭibb
Title:	Book of Treasure on the Science on Medicine
Title (Arabic):	كتاب ال?ذخيرة ?ى علم ال?طب
Author:	Ps. Ṯ?bit b. Qurra
Author (Arabic):	ثابت بن قرة (?)
Bibliographic information:	Ullmamm Medizin 136, Ḥadd?d/Biesterfeld no.8

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