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National Library of Medicine

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Ms. A 46

Contents

Work 1: كتاب المنجح فی الطب والتداوي من صنوف الأمراض والشكاوى (Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century)

LOC subject headings

Medicine

lccn:sh87002373

Author

Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century

المغربي،ابو سعید ابن ابراهيم

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Abū Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī al-Mutaṭṭib, known as al-ʿAlāʾī (fl. 1150s-1160s)

Ibrāhīm ibn Abū Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī

ابو سعید ابن ابراهيم المغربي المتطب

العلائي

Biographical notes

Nothing is known about the author but version of the name Ibrāhīm ibn Abū Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī given by Brockelmann ( (Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Weimar and Berlin: Emil Felber, 1897-1902., pp. 275-6)) appears to be incorrect and the same mistake is repeated by Ullmann ( (Ullmann, Manfred. Die Medizin im Islam. Leiden and Köln: Brill, 1970.)).

Title

كتاب المنجح فی الطب والتداوي من صنوف الأمراض والشكاوى

Success in Medicine and Therapy among the Categories of Deseases and Complaints

Notes

This work is a manual describing 550 simple medicinal substances alphabetically organized and composed in the format of synoptic tables. The work consists of a long introduction and 28 chapters, one for each letter of the alphabet. The introduction includes several diagrams to illustrate humoral medical concepts. The tables contain sixteen categories of information regarding the characteristics of each substance and its therapeutic uses: physical appearance, type (forms), preferred state, primary humoral quality (hot/cold/dry/wet), strength, use for the different parts of the head, use for respiratory system and internal organs, use for the digestive tract, use for the whole body; application; dosage; harmful effects; antidotes; substitutes or replacements; number assigned to the medicament by use of letters.

Composed in mid 12th century [1150-1169 CE].

Dedicated to Dhu’l-Qarnayn ibn Ismāʿīl (r. 1151-1162), Danishmendid ruler, ذو القرنين ابن إسماعيل

Main language of text

Arabic

Foliation

ff. 1a-140b

Bibliography

Studies

Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Weimar and Berlin: Emil Felber, 1897-1902, 890-891.

Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. Weimar and Berlin: Emil Felber, 1897-1902, 1032 (no. 51).

Renaud, H. P. J.. "Une problème de bibliographie arabe: Le Taqwīm al-Adwiya d’al-‘Ala’i." Hespéris. 16 1933: 69-81.

Ullmann, Manfred. Die Medizin im Islam. Leiden and Köln: Brill, 1970.

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Wellcome Trust 476

Wellcome Trust 58

Bodleian Library 564

Bodleian Library 35

Bodleian Library 173

Bibliothèque Nationale de France 6283

Bibliothèque Nationale de France 2956

Bibliothèque Nationale de France 2967

Gotha Research Library 2011

UniversitatBibliothek Uppsala 352

Nuruosmaniye no. 3457

Nuruosmaniye no. 3494

Süleymaniye Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi 1958

Physical Description

Dimensions of folio

width 15.4cm, height 22.8cm

Dimensions of written area

width 10.8cm, height 18.5cm

Addition

the title of this ms is given in the text as Kitāb al-munjiḥ fī’l-ṭibb wa’l-tadāwī min ṣunūf al-amrāḍ wa’l-shakāwá

History

Date of copy

14th. century