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http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3641757
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| Title |
Kitāb al-Ḥašāʾiš fī hāyūlā al-ʿilāg ̌al-ṭibbī Or. 289
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| Creator/other |
Dioscorides Pedanius (1e E)
Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq al-ʿIbādī, Abū Zayd (810-873)
Stephanus b. Bāsīl
Nātilī, Ḥusayn b. Ibrāhīm al- (990 fl)
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| Shelfmark |
Or. 289
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| Note |
Arabic translation of Dioscurides, Peri hulēs iatrikēs, more commonly known as the Materia medica. The work was originally translated from Greek into Arabic via Syriac by Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (810-873) with the collaboration of Stephanus b. Bāsīl between 847-861 CE. This translation was slightly revised by Ḥusayn b. Ibrāhīm al-Nātilī in 990-991 CE. The current copy is based on an exemplar in the hand of al-Nātilī. The work was offered to the amīr of Samarqand, Abū ʿAlī al-Simǧūrī.
Naskh script, mostly without diacritical signs.
Brown full leather Islamic binding with flap and blind tooled decoration on the covers, not contemporary with the text block.
Acquired by Levinus Warner (1619-1665) and bequeathed to Leiden University on his death.
One of the oldest illustrated Arabic MSS in existence.
Not accessible without permission of the curator.
The manuscript underwent an extensive conservation treatment at the library's conservation studio in 2022.
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| Reference |
GAL I 207, S I 369, GAS III 58-60, CCO 1301 (III, 227-229), Voorhoeve 109, Goed Gezien 151, 155. For an elaborate study of the Arabic versions of the Materia medica see M.M. Sadek, The Arabic Materia Medica of Dioscorides, St-Jean-Chrysostome 1983
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| Language |
Arabic
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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| Country |
Uzbekistan
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| Form |
Arabic MS on paper, 228 f. : with numerous coloured illustrations, mainly botanical ; 30x19.5 (24.5x14.5) cm
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| Extent |
233 + 464 scans
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| Published/created |
Samarqand, copied on a Monday in the middle of Ramaḍān 475/[February 1083]
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