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<h1><a name="top"></a>Catalogue - Medical Encyclopedias</h1>
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<em>Shar<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font> Kit&#257;b al-Mas&#257;&#8217;il f&#299; al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7789;</font>ibb lil-muta&#8216;allim&#299;n</em> <span class="ms">&nbsp;&nbsp;(MS A 66)</span></dt>
<dd>(<em>Commentary on 'The Questions on Medicine for Beginners'</em>) [by <a href="bioH.html#hunayn"><font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>unayn ibn Is<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>&#257;q</a>]</dd>
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<dd>by Ab&#363; al-Q&#257;sim &#8216;Abd al-Ra<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>m&#257;n <a href="bioI.html#abi">Ibn Ab&#299; <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7778;</font>&#257;diq</a> (<a href="glossary.html#d">d.</a> after 1068/460 H)</dd>
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<p class="indent">The most productive translator of Greek medical and scientific treatises into Arabic was <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>unayn ibn Is<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>&#257;q, who died in 873 or 877 (260 or 264 H). Known to Europeans as Johannitius, <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>unayn also composed a number of original medical writings, including the influential <em>Questions on Medicine for Beginners</em> (<em>Kit&#257;b al-Mas&#257;&#8217;il f&#299; al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7789;</font>ibb lil-muta&#8216;allim&#299;n</em>). A number of commentaries were written on <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>unayn's popular introduction to medicine, one of the most important being that by Ibn Ab&#299; <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7778;</font>&#257;diq, who died shortly after 1068/460 H.</p>
<p class="indent">NLM has a copy of the commentary by Ibn Ab&#299; <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7778;</font>&#257;diq on <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>unayn's <em>Questions on Medicine for Beginners</em>. It is an important copy because of its apparent age (thirteenth-century). For other copies of the commentary by Ibn Ab&#299; <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7778;</font>&#257;diq, <em>see</em> <a href="abbreviation.html#dietrich">Dietrich, <em>Medicinalia</em></a>, p. 43-4 no. 15; <a href="abbreviation.html#ullmannM">Ullmann, <em>Medizin</em></a>, p. 160 note 4; <a href="abbreviation.html#gal"><em>GAL</em></a> vol. 1 p. 484 (638) and <a href="abbreviation.html#gals"><em>GAL-S</em></a> vol. 1, p. 886-7; and Yale, Beineke Library MS 1506. The copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, (MS Marsh 98) was copied in 1235/639H and was used for teaching purposes by a famous physician Muwaffaq al-Din Ya&#8216;qub al-Samiri (d. 1281), for it has an <a href="glossary.html#ijazah">ijazah</a> signed by him certifying that a pupil of his named Amin al-Dawlah Tadrus ibn Nasr ibn Malik studied and mastered its contents.</p>
<p class="indent">The commentary by Ibn Ab&#299; <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7778;</font>&#257;diq has not been published in a modern translation or edition. An English translation of the <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>unayn 's original treatise has been published in <em>Questions on medicine for scholars by <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>unayn ibn Is<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>&#257;q</em>, translated by Paul Ghalioungui, from a critical edition by Galal M. Moussa, Ph.D., of the Ninth Century Arabic Text, "Al Mas&#257;&#8217;il f&#299; al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7789;</font>ibb lil muta&#8216;allimin (Cairo: Al-Ahram Center for Scientific Translations, 1980), p. 46-70. For a printed edition of <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>unayn's treatise, <em>see</em> Hunayn ibn Ishaq, <em>Masa'il fi al-tibb lil-muta&#8216;allimin</em>, edited by Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ammad &#8216;Al&#299; Ab&#363; Rayyan, Mursi Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ammad &#8216;Arab, and Jalal Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ammad Musa; (Cairo: Dar al-Jami&#8216;at al-Misriyah and Dar al-Kitab al-Lubnani, 1978 [reprint, n.d.]), p 482-483. </p>
<p class="indent"><em>Shar<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font> Kit&#257;b al-Mas&#257;&#8217;il f&#299; al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7789;</font>ibb lil-muta&#8216;allim&#299;n</em> &nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="ms">(MS A 66)</span></p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Illustrations</span></h2>
<div class="img"><a href="images/a665b.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="images/a665bThumb.jpg" alt="Folio 5b from Ibn Abī Ṣādiq's Sharḥ Kitāb al-Masāil fī al-ṭibb lil-mutaallimīn (Commentary on 'The Questions on Medicine for Beginners'). The thick, biscuit-colored paper has a nearly matte finish and is water damaged, stained, and slightly wormeaten. The text is written in a medium-large, careful, consistent, compact naskh script with occasional vocalization. The text area has been frame-ruled. Brown-black ink with headings in red and black." title="MS A 66, fol. 5b" /></a>
<div class="desc"><span class="ms">&nbsp;&nbsp;MS A 66, fol. 5b </span>
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<p class="indent">A sample page from Ibn Ab&#299; <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7778;</font>&#257;diq's commentary on <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>unayn ibn Is<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>&#257;q's <em>Question on Medicine for Beginners</em>, in which <a href="glossary.html#rubrications">rubrications</a> indicate a section of the text by <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>unayn, followed by the commentary on the passage by Ibn Ab&#299; <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7778;</font>&#257;diq, also indicated by a heading in red ink.</p>
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<h2><span class="h2blue">Physical Description</span></h2>
<p class="indent">Arabic. 75 <a href="glossary.html#folio">folios</a>. <a href="glossary.html#dimensions">Dimensions</a> 22.5 x 15 cm; text area 19 x 11.5 cm; 21 lines per page. No author or title is given in the <a href="glossary.html#manuscript">manuscript</a>; the title has been supplied by the cataloguer. The treatise has been identified by comparing it with copies preserved in other libraries; the text in MS A 66 corresponds to that in London, Wellcome Library, MS Arab. 2, beginning at fol. 149a. </p>
<p class="indent">MS A 66 is only a fragment of the commentary by Ibn Ab&#299; <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7778;</font>&#257;diq on <em>Mas&#257;&#8217;il f&#299; <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7789;</font>ibb</em> (<em>Questions on Medicine</em>) written by <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>unayn ibn Is<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>&#257;q. It contains the section of the commentary concerned with the preparation of drugs and the beginning of the section on arterial pulse. The words of the text by <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>unayn are referred to as <em>al-fass</em>, and the commentary by Ibn Ab&#299; <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7778;</font>&#257;diq called <em>al-tafsir</em>. The folios in this copy are misbound and should be read in the following sequence: 48-75, 31-47, 11-30, 1-10. </p>
<p class="indent">This manuscript (MS A 66) was incorrectly identified by Sommer (<a href="abbreviation.html#schullian">Schullian/Sommer</a>, <em>Cat. of incun. &amp; MSS</em>, p. 319) as a commentary on the <em>Aphorisms</em> (<em>sharh fusul</em>) of <a href="bioH.html#hippocrates">Hippocrates</a>--a suggestion someone has written in English on fol. 1a. Sommer suggested that the author of the commentary might be Ibn Ab&#299; <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7778;</font>&#257;diq (well-known for his commentary on the <em>Aphorisms</em>) or by <a href="bioI.html#alquff">Ibn al-Quff</a> (a thirteenth-century Syrian physician who is known to have written such a commentary). Comparison with other manuscripts, however, demonstrates that it is a fragment of Ibn Ab&#299; <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7778;</font>&#257;diq's commentary on the popular treatise by <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7716;</font>unayn ibn Is<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>&#257;q.</p>
<p class="indent">The manuscript itself is undated, but the appearance of the paper, ink, and handwriting suggests a date of about 1250 to 1300.</p>
<p class="indent">The text is written in a medium-large, careful, consistent, compact <a href="glossary.html#naskh">naskh</a> script with occasional <a href="glossary.html#vocalization">vocalization</a>. The text area has been <a href="glossary.html#frame">frame-ruled</a>. Brown-black ink with headings in red and black. There are no <a href="glossary.html#catchword">catchwords</a>. There is some <a href="glossary.html#bleed">bleedthrough</a> of the inks. There are marginal corrections, possibly by the <a href="glossary.html#scribe">scribe</a>, with a few later <a href="glossary.html#marginalia">marginalia</a>.</p>
<p class="indent">The thick, biscuit-colored paper has a nearly matte finish, with no visible <a href="glossary.html#laid">laid lines</a> or <a href="glossary.html#chain">chain lines</a>. At a later date the folios were numbered with <a href="glossary.html#arabic">Arabic numerals</a> 2-76; the volume has been recently renumbered in <a href="glossary.html#western">Western numerals</a>. The paper is water damaged, stained, and slightly wormeaten; the edges have been trimmed from their original size. Fol. 23 has a tear in the center and fol. 29 has been crudely conserved; repairs have been made to fols. 1-3 with minor repairs to other folios.</p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Binding</span></h2>
<p class="indent">The volume is bound in black leather covers, dried and cracked, with a recent black leather spine. There are modern paper <a href="glossary.html#pastedowns">pastedowns</a> and <a href="glossary.html#endpapers">endpapers</a>.</p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Provenance</span></h2>
<p class="indent">The volume was purchased in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A.S. Yahuda (ELS 1671 Med. 27).</p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">References</span></h2>
<p class="indent"><a href="abbreviation.html#schullian">Schullian/Sommer</a>, <em>Cat. of incun. &amp; MSS.</em> entry A66 p. 319; <a href="abbreviation.html#hamarnehN">Hamarneh, "NLM"</a>, p. 77. </p>
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