Manuscript in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an incomplete copy of Constantine the African's De Remine Sanitatis, or Liber Pantegni (Practica). The text is a Latin translation from Arabic of ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās Majūsī's Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah. Contains 16 leaves: incipit: Quia in p[rima] p[ar]te n[ost]ri lib[ri] panteg[ni]; excipit: melestia[m]. Bound together with parchment leaf (l. 17) with miscellaneous medical notes, in several hands different from the hand of the other 16 leaves
Alternative Title:
Liber pantegni
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric: Hic incipit liber de regimine sanitatis., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: Red and blue illluminated initials with red and blue pen-flourishing in the margin; rubrication., Layout: leaves 1-16: 1 column of 34-37 lines; leaf 17: two-columns of 37 lines., Binding: Modern three-quarter vellum over green printed paper. Spine title: Constantinus Africanus MS. Saec. XIII., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Name):
Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, active 10th century-11th century.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing an Italian translation of Antonio Guainerio's De venenis
Description:
In Italian., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist hand., Decoration: one six-line decorated initial in gold on rectangle border with floral decoration (f. 1r). Two-line initials in red and blue ink throughout. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 24 lines., Binding: 17th-18th c. deer skin over paper boards., and Watermark is a variant of Briquet 6597-6600, Northern Italy, 1465-80.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Venom
"Dr. Lenetive, of "The Prize", finely dressed and seated on a chair, a table overturning to his right, waving his wig and a prize ticket in his hands; a lottery puff or handbill."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New Year's Lottery begins 21st this month (Jan.), 2 of 20,000 guineas, and 40 other capitals
Description:
Title from heading to second paragraph of letterpress text, printed beneath double line., Text directly beneath woodcut: New Year's Lottery begins 21st this month (Jan.), 2 of 20,000 guineas, and 40 other capitals. All sterling money - no stock prizes. Tickets and shares are selling by the contractor, T. Bish, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-Cross., Attribution to George Cruikshank and approximate date of publication from description of a similar handbill in the British Museum, which uses the same woodcut with slightly different text; cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,1217.149., Handbill with woodcut illustration at top and eighteen lines of letterpress text below., Quoted text beneath title begins: "My ticket, no. 2, 5, 3, 8, drawn this day a prize of ten thousand pounds! ..., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1442., and Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 2825.
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing an extract of Dioscorides' De materia medica, a medico-botanical dictionary arranged alphabetically
Alternative Title:
Medico-botanical dictionary / extracted from Dioscorides ; manuscript written in Greek during the 15th Century
Description:
In Greek., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Layout: single column of 30 lines., Binding: vellum, over paper boards. Spinal title: Dioscorides De plantis Graece Manuscrip., and Volume was likely produced in Venice between 1539 and 1542 or Guillaume Pellicier, bishop of Montpellier and ambassador to Venice.
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical, Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of the anonymous Historia septem sapientum (ff. 1r-15v) and Arnaldus de Villanova's Regimen sanitatis ad regem Aragonum (ff. 15v-19r, highly abbreviated). Also includes Lentulus' Epistola de statura Christi ad Senatum Romanum (f. 19v) and a collection of moral sentences (f. 20r) in a different, slightly later hand
Alternative Title:
Historia septem sapientum : Regimen sanitatis abbreviatum
Description:
In Latin., Title of Regimen Sanitatis from opening rubric: Incipit liber de regimen sanitatis editus per Magistrum Raynaldum de Villa nova. (f. 15v) Other titles assigned by cataloger., Script: southern Gothic texualis., Decoration: 3-line initials in blue and 2-line initials in red. Rubrication., Layout: written in 2 columns of 29 lines., Binding: modern binding over pasteboard signed by binder: Bound by J. Desmonts / J. Macdonald Co. / Norwalk. Conn., Contemporary foliation: 96-115 (indicating sequence in original manuscript?); and modern foliation 1-20., and Available also on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405 دميري، محمد بن موسى، 1341?-1405
Published / Created:
[17th century?]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic S-2
Image Count:
862
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A zoological encyclopedia listing the names of the different animals, birds and insects arranged alphabetically, with anecdotes, poems and folkloric tales, but the most important part of this work is the description of the medicinal properties of the animals and their different organs. It is the most comprehensive zoological work in Arabic and a store-house of folk-lore and popular medicine. The author is Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Damīrī (1341?-1405), a Shafiite Egyptian scholar, from Cairo. He worked as a tailor, but then devoted himself to learning and scholarship and became a prominent scholar at al-Azʹhar. He also lived for a while in Mecca and Medina. al-Damīrī finished writing his book in the month of Rajab, 773 H (January/February, 1372). The book is in two versions: long and short. The present manuscript is the long version and according to a recent note on leaf 1a it was copied from a manuscript copied in 805 H (1402/1403). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 17th century
Alternative Title:
Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá 880-02 and حياة الحيوان الكبرى 240-02/r
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: "al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī sharrafa nawʻ al-insān bi-al-aṣgharayn al-qalb wa-al-lisān wa-faḍḍalahu ʻalá sāyir al-ḥayawān bi-niʻmatay al-manṭiq wa-al-bayān wa-rajjaḥahu bi-al-ʻaql alladhī wazan bi-hi qaḍāyā al-qiyās fī aḥsan mīzān fa-aqām ʻalá waḥdānīyatihi al-burhān. Aḥmaduhu ḥamdan yamuddunā bi-mawādd al-iḥsān ...", 18 x 31.5 cm ; written surface: 10.5 x 23 cm, 26 lines per page, Black leather binding., In good, rather fine naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings, keywords and markings in red; catchwords., Some collations and corrections on the margins., On leaf 1a a recent note in pencil: "Nuskhah manqūlah ʻan nuskhah kutibat fī sanat 805, wa-al-khaṭṭ min al-ḥādiyah ʻashar.", and Colophon: "Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyid al-Mrusalīn al-Nabī al-Muṣṭafá wa-raḍiya Allāh ʻan ālihi wa-ʻutratihi wa-ṣaḥbih ahl al-faḍl wa-al-wafā wa-ḥasbunā Allāh wa-kafá. Wa-kāna al-farāgh min musawwadatihi fī shahr Dhī al-Ḥijjah tashrīf sanat thalāth wa-sabʻīn wa-sabʻimiʼah wa-min hādhihi al-nuskhah al-mubārakah fī Shaʻbān sanat khams wa-thamānimiʼah. Jaʻala Allāh taʻālá dhālika khāliṣan li-wajhihi al-karīm mūjiban lil-fawz ladayh fī dār al-naʻīm wa-huwa ḥasbunā wa-niʻma al-wakīl. Qāla dhālika kātibuhu [i.e. kātibuhu] wa-muʼallifuhu faqīr raḥmat rabbihi Muḥammad ibn Mūsá ibn ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī al-Damīrī waqāhu Allāh sharra nafsihi wa-jaʻala būmahu ḥasīran min massihi hawā al-fiṭnah bi-ḥurūfihi. Tammat kitāb Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá bi-ḥamd Allāh al-ʻaẓīmah [i.e. al-ʻaẓīm] rabb al-ākhirah wa-al-ūlá. Tammat."
Subject (Name):
Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405.
Subject (Topic):
Zoology, Science, Medieval, and Animals in literature
Illuminated manuscript herbal, on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of medical texts, tables, and taxonomies about plants, animals, and herbs by Hippocrates, Dycolapius Plato, Apuleius, Sextus Placitus, Dioscorides, and Apollinis. Includes copious hand-colored drawings of plants and animals, and a number of full-page author portraits
Alternative Title:
In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicine scilicet Ypocratis, Platonis, et Diascoridis, In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicie s. Ypoctis, Platonis, et Diascoridis, and De herbis masculinis et feminis [and other botanical and zoological works, including the Herbarium of Apuleius]
Description:
In Latin., Title from rubricated heading on f. 3r., Script: southern gothic textualis., Layout: 1 column of around 38 lines., Decoration: copious illustriations of plants and animals. Full-page portraits of the authors on ff. 3v, 50v, and 63r. Rubrication., Binding: 18th/19th-century vellum binding over pastedboard. Spine title: Plantan et animal., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical, Herbals, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Zoology, Medieval
Illuminated manuscript herbal, on parchment, in several unidentified hand, containing a herbal in Italian (ff. 1r-49v), incipit: L'erba dicta astrologia o vere aristolatia... Followed by a collection of medical recipes in Italian (ff. 50r-152v), incipit: ungue[n]to da fare. Includes 16 botanical drawings in colored ink
Alternative Title:
Herbal : in Italian ; followed by Medical recipes (on leaves 51-152)
Description:
In Italian., Title devised by cataloger., Script: documentary hands., Layout: single column of varying length., Decoration: 16 botanical drawings: herba alebro biancho (f. 28r), herba pinpinella maiore (f. 28v), herba ceredonia (f. 29r), herba berthonica (f. 29v), herba coriola (f. 30r), herba lunaria minore (f. 30v), herba astologia rotonda (f. 31r), herba oculorum Christi (f. 31v), herba greiima (f. 32r), herba poliponice (f. 32v), herba trefolgi (f. 33r), herba rebarrum (f. 33v), herba siillo di santa maria (f. 34r), herba mandragola femena (f. 34v), herba madragola mascolo (f. 35r), herba dicta tirmitella (f. 35v), unidentified herb (f. 39v). Herbal rubricated., Binding: bound in modern vellum over paper boards., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Also available on microfilm.
Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century, author مغربي، أبو سعيد بن إبراهيم، ناشط قرن 12، مؤلف
Published / Created:
23 Ramaḍān, 1021 H [17 November, 1612]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 3
Image Count:
504
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on medicine and pharmacology by Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mutaṭabbib al-Maghribī, a little known physician and pharmacologist who seems to have lived in the 12th century. The name of the author is given as "Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī" in one of his medical/pharmacological manuscript works: "Kitāb fatʹḥ al-tadāwī min jamīʻ al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī fī mufradāt al-ʻaqāqīr, [17--?]" which he dedicated to the Amīr Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad Dhū al-Qarnayn ibn ʻAyn al-Dawlah, the son of Amīr Ghāzī who seems to be the Danishmendid ruler Dhū al-Qarnayn, d. 557 H/1162 CE (OCLC 244629229). In the printed editions with slightly different titles: "Taqwīm al-adwīyah al-mufradah, aw, al-Munjiḥ fī al-tadāwī min jamīʻ al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī" as Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Saʻīd al-ʻAlāʼī (OCLC 785065773) and "Taqwīm al-adwīyah, aw, al-Munjiḥ fī al-tadāwī min ṣunūf al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī" as Abī Saʻīd Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Saʻīd al-ʻAlāʼī al-Maghribī (OCLC 796221762). The manuscript was read and collated with the copyist (whose name is not mentioned), as mentioned in the colophon, by the physician ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Khālidī (?) al-Khurāsānī (an obscure physician) on 23 Ramaḍan, 1021 H (17 November, 1612). Place of copying not mentioned, probably in Iran
In Arabic., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi thiqatī. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn ḥamda al-shākirīn wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá al-Nabī al-Muṣṭafá Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭāhirīn. al-Kitāb al-awwal yashtamilu ʻalá maʻrifat ḥadd al-ṭibb wa-maʻrifat juzʼayhi al-ʻilmī wa-al-ʻamalī wa-ʻalá maʻrifat al-umūr al-jawharīyah [?] lil-abdān min al-ʻanāṣir wa-al-amzijah wa-al-akhlāṭ wa-al-aʻḍāʼ al-mutashābihat al-ajzāʼ wa-al-aʻḍāʼ al-ālīyah wa-ʻalá maʻrifat al-qiwá al-ṭabīʻīyah wa-al-ḥayawānīyah wa-al-nafsānīyah ...", 18 x 30 cm ; written surface: 11.3 x 20 cm, 25 lines per page., Islamic red leather binding., In good naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings, keywords and marking in red; catchwords. Part 3 of the manuscript on pharmacology is profusely illustrated on the margins with beautifully colored drawings of the plants and animals mentioned in the text., Some collations and corrections on the margins., On title page an ownership seal in the name of Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Mūsawī., and Colophon: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Balagha qibālan wa-taṣḥīḥan wa-tadrīsan fī al-thālith wa-al-ʻishrīn min shahr Ramaḍān al-mubārak sanat iḥdá wa-ʻishrīn baʻda al-alf min al-Hijrah. Wa-anā al-ʻabd aqall al-mutaṭabbibīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Khālidī [?] al-Khurāsānī, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayh. 1021. Balagha muqābalatan maʻa muntasikhih."
Subject (Name):
Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Animal, Medicinal plants, Medicine, Arab, and Pharmacology