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al-Ṭbb al-Nabawī : manuscript
Creator
ذهبي، محمد بن أحمد، 1274-1348.
Title
al-Ṭbb al-Nabawī : manuscript / Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Dhahabī.
الطب النبوي : مخطوطة / محمد بن أحمد الذهبي.
Production
Place not identified, 1857 or 1858.
Physical Description
1 volume (116 leaves) ; 18 cm
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title from colophon.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī aʻṭá kulla nafsin khalaqahā, wa-ahdāhā, wa-alhamahā fujūrahā wa-taqwāhā, wa-ʻallamahā manāfiʻahā wa-maḍārrahā, wa-ibtalāhā wa-ʻāfāhā, wa-amātahā wa-aḥyāhā. Wa-ashhadu anna Muḥammadan ʻabduhu wa-rasūluh ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي أعطى كل نفسٍ خلقها، وأهداها، وألهمها فجورها وتقواها، وعلّمها منافعها ومضارّها، وابتلاها وعافاها، وأماتها وأحياها. وأشهد أنّ محمدًا عبده ورسوله ..."
Secundo folio: al-qurbāt baʻda imtithāl al-awāmir wa-ijtināb al-manhīyāt.
بداية الورقة الثانية: القربات بعد امتثال الأوامر واجتناب المنهيات.
13 x 17.3 cm; written surface: 8 x 14.5 cm; 15 lines per page.
Binding: Unbound.
In clear naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings in red; folios 1-11 and 111-116 are written in a different hand; catchwords.
A slip is attached to the spine with a letter addressed to two brothers, Asʻad and Saʻīd Chalabī.
على رقعة موصولة بظهر الكتاب رسالة موجّهة للأخوين، أسعد و سعيد چلبي.
On folio 1a: An ownership statement: "Mulk al-faqīr ilayhi taʻālá, Maḥmūd najl al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Salām Abī Ghazālah, ʻafá Allāh ʻanhumā. Āmīn. Sanat 1274 [lil-Hijrah = 1857/1858]."
على وجه الورقة 1: مدوّنة تملّك: "ملك الفقير إليه تعالى، محمود نجل الشيخ عبد السلام أبي غزالة، عفى الله عنهما. آمين. سنة 1274 [للهجرة = 1857/1858]."
Colophon: "Tamma al-Ṭibb al-Nabawī lil-Dhahabī, ʻalá yad mālikihi al-faqīr Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Salām Abī Ghazālah, ʻufiya ʻanhumā bi-mannihi. Fī sanat 1274."
الخاتمة: "تمّ الطب النبوي للذهبي، على يد مالكه الفقير محمود بن عبد السلام أبي غزالة، عفي عنهما بمنّه. في سنة 1274."
Translation of the colophon: "The book of 'al-Ṭibb al-Nabawī' of al-Dhahabī was completed by the hand of its owner, the poor Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Salām Abī Ghazālah, may both of them be forgiven by His grace. In the year 1274 [of the Hijrah = 1857/1858]."
In Arabic.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Summary
"al-Ṭibb al-Nabawī" (Prophet's medicine), a corpus of traditional medicine attributed to Prophet Muḥammad, by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Dhahabī (1274-1348), a well-known historian and prolific scholar, of Turkmen ancestry, from Mayyāfāriqīn (Silvan, Diyarbakır İli, Turkey), with some one-hundred works to his credit, born and died in Damascus (Syria). Copied in the year 1274 of the Hijrah (1857/1858), by its owner Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Salām Abī Ghazālah. Place of copying not mentioned.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2021
References
Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Dhahabī, al-Ṭibb al-Nabawī. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Dhahabī, al-Ṭibb al-Nabawī. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 19th century.
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