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Haddad manuscripts collection

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


prepared by Nikolaj Serikoff

Wellcome MS Arabic 487

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Codicological description

Physical description

Ink: black, headings and dividers are highlighted in red
Paper: European
Watermarks: tre lune
Dimensions : 125 x 210 (65 x 145)
Folios: 101
Quires: fols 22a, 36a, 42a, 74a comprise indication of folios for each work
Lines : 24
Script : naskh, fols 52a~-- 55b are written by another hand
Pace : lines: 24; Density: 520; Ratio: 1:1,25; Alef angle: 80; Kaf angle: 40
Binding: modern, European type. Leather spine with title of the book, the name of the author, and of last owner S?mī Ḥadd?d tooled in gold
Catchwords: are written underneath the frame
State of preservation: good

Description of hands

Copy date (Muslim): 25 Ḏū l-Ḥiǧǧa 981 / 17 April 1574 (fol. 73b)

History of manuscript

Seals: fol. 3a: an oval seal (30 x 15) with an obscure legend
Provenance: known owners: S?mī Ibr?hīm Ḥadd?d (1986).
Acquisition: Sotheby's lot 457 (22/21.11.85)


Description of texts

Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.1
Language: Arabic
Subject: Medicine
Title transliterated: Ris?lat Aġḏiyat al-murḍī fī `Ilm aṭ-Ṭibb
Title: Epistle on Victuals which are sufficient for Medicine
Title (Arabic): رسالة اغذية ال?مرضى ?ى علم ال?طب
Author: Abū Ḥ?mid Muḥammad `Alī b. `Umar Naǧīb ad-Dīn `Alī as-Samarqandī
Author (Arabic): ابو حامد محمّد على ابن عمر نجيب ال?دين علي ال?سمرقندي
Bibliographic information:


Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.2
Language: Arabic
Subject: Medicine
Title transliterated: Aǧz?' taštamil `al? Fuṣūl li-Buqr?ṭ
Title: Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms
Title (Arabic): اجزاء تشتمل على ?صول ل?بقراط
Author: Ḥunayn b. Isḥ?q (?)
Author (Arabic): حنين بن اسحاق
Bibliographic information:


Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.3
Language: Arabic
Subject: Medicine
Title transliterated: Kit?b Adwiyat al-Adwiya
Title: Book of the Remedies of Remedies
Title (Arabic): كتاب ادوية الادوية
Author: Abū l'Faḍl Ḥubayš b. Ibr?hīm b. Muḥammad at-Tiflīsī
Author (Arabic): ابو ?ضل حبيش ب. ابراهيم بن محمد ال?ت?ليسي
Bibliographic information:


Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.4
Language: Arabic
Subject: Medicine
Title transliterated: Ris?lat fī Man?fi` al-Adwiyat al-mufradat wa-l-murakkaba
Title: An Epistle on the useful Properties of simple and compound Drugs
Title (Arabic): رسالة ?ى منا?ع الادوية ال?م?ردة وال?مركبة
Author: Anonymous
Bibliographic information:


Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.5
Language: Arabic
Subject: Medicine
Title transliterated: Ris?la daraǧat Kayfiyyat al-Adwiyat al-mufrada
Title: An Epistle on the Levels of Quality for simple Drugs
Title (Arabic): رسالة درجة كي?ية الادوية ال?م?ردة
Author: Anonymous
Bibliographic information: Ḥadd?d/Biesterfeld no. 88, cf. Ḥadd?d/Biesterfeld no. 37



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