Kitāb al-Raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah, between 1830 and 1940; كتاب الرحمة في الطب والحكمة، بين 1830 و1940

Name:

Ṣubunrī, Mahdī ibn ʻAlī, -approximately 1412 or 1413; Fez Lithographs Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Date:

1830

Description:

Collection of seven medical works, mostly treatises but also including a qaṣīdah describing medical treatments (Work 2) and a work presented as a historical account concerning medical treatments (Work 3). The first work is an herbal by al-Mahdī ibn ʻAlī al-Ṣubunrī (whose name is recorded in the text as al-Mahdī Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣanbarī), which comprises nearly half the manuscript; the other works are unattributed. All works collated except the third.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Sold as part of the Fez Lithographs Collection by Fawzi Abdulrazak (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 2013.; Abdulrazak, Fawzi, former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscoll960_item6.html; The Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366196

Subject:

Medicine; Medicine, Arab; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); treatises; herbals (reference sources); Manuscripts, Arabic

Physical Description:

1 volume (86 leaves) : paper; 202 x 140 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Table of contents: 880-04 Kitāb al-Raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah -- Qaṣīdah ʻalá al-ṭibb -- Qāla Masīḥ ibn al-Ḥakīm, iʻtalla Amīr al-Muʼminīn Hārūn al-Rashīd -- Kalām ʻalá al-ṭabāyiʻ al-arbaʻah al-murakkabah fī al-insān -- Dawāʼ lil-ḥikkah wa-al-sawdāʼ wa-al-nār al-fārisīyah wa-li-jamīʻ mā yakhruju min laḥm Banī Adam -- ʻIlāj al-taṣrīf alladhī yatawalladu fī al-ʻunuq yuqālu la-hu al-mabsūṭ -- Tafsīr al-aʻshāb al-qarḥāʼ.; Probably written in Morocco, in Maghribi script by a single hand; catchwords.; First work written in orange, red, and blue ink as well as black; significant words and phrases in red in the rest of the manuscript.; Modern leather binding (Type 3).; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund.; In Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 960 Item 6

Collection:

Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund; Collection of Fez Manuscripts