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<h1><a name="top"></a>Catalogue: Medical Poetry</h1>
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<a name="a85item3"></a><em>‘Alāmat al-sa‘ādah fī al-aghdhiyah al-mu‘tādah</em> <span class="ms"> (MS A 85, item 3)</span></dt>
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<dd>(<em>Signs of Well-being in Readily Available Foodstuffs</em>)</dd>
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<dd><strong>علامة السعادة في الاغذية المعتادة</strong></dd>
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<dd>by Abū ‘Alī al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>asan ibn ‘Alī <a href="bioM.html#marrakushi">al-Marrākushī</a> (<a href="glossary.html#fl">fl.</a> 1281/680)</dd>
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<dd><strong>ابو على الحسن ابن على المراكشي</strong></dd>
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<p class="indent">Abū ‘Alī al-Marrākushī was a very important astronomer whose encyclopaedia on spherical astronomy, time-keeping, and astronomical instruments, compiled in Cairo about 1281/680, was very popular in North Africa, Egypt, and Turkey. </p>
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<p class="indent">This poem on detecting signs of healthfulness in foodstuffs readily available appears to be the only medical treatise preserved today that is attributed to him. If it was in fact composed by him, it may have been his only medical writing.</p>
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<p class="indent">No other copy is recorded. It has not yet been published or studied.</p>
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<p class="indent"><em>‘Alāmat al-sa‘ādah fī al-aghdhiyah al-mu‘tādah</em> <span class="ms">(MS A 85, item 3)</span></p>
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<div class="img"><a href="images/a8552b.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="images/a8552bThumb.jpg" alt="Folio 52b of MS A 85 which is the opening of al-Marrākushi's ‘Alāmat al-sa‘ādah fī al-aghdhiyah al-mu‘tādah (Signs of Well-being in Readily Available Foodstuffs). The light-beige paper has a nearly matte finish. The entire volume is written in a very fine North African (Maghribi) script by one unnamed copyist. The text area has been frame-ruled. Black ink with headings and marginal headings in red and blue-green. The text is written within frames of red and green lines." title="MS A 85, fol. 52b" /></a>
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<div class="desc"><span class="ms">MS A 85, fol. 52b</span>
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<p class="indent">The opening of a didactic poem on detecting healthy foodstuffs that are readily available, apparently written by the famous 13th-century Cairene astronomer Abū ‘Alī al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>asan ibn ‘Alī <a href="bioM.html#marrakushi">al-Marrākushī</a>. The copy is undated, possibly early 19th-century. No other copy is recorded.</p>
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<p class="indent">Arabic. 21 <a href="glossary.html#leaves">leaves</a> (fols. 52b-72b) <a href="glossary.html#dimensions">Dimensions</a> 30.4 x 19.3 (text area 22.5 x 13.2) cm; 31 lines per page. The author's name is given as <em>al-shaykh al-faqir al-tabib</em> Abū al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>asan ‘Alī ibn <font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>asan al-Marrākushī (fol. 52b, line 3), apparently the well-known astronomer Abū ‘Alī al-<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ḥ</font>asan ibn ‘Alī al-Marrākushī. The title is given on fol. 52b line 2.</p>
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<p class="indent">The copy is undated and unsigned. The appearance of the paper, script, and ink suggests a date of the early 19th century.</p>
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<p class="indent">Apparently a complete copy of the poem. The entire volume is written in a very fine North African (<a href="glossary.html#maghribi">Maghribi</a>) script by one unnamed <a href="glossary.html#copyist">copyist</a>. The text area has been <a href="glossary.html#frame">frame-ruled</a>. Black ink with headings and marginal headings in red and blue-green. The text is written within <a href="glossary.html#frames">frames</a> of red and green lines. There are <a href="glossary.html#catchword">catchwords</a>. Some <a href="glossary.html#folio">folios</a> are numbered in penciled <a href="glossary.html#western">Western numerals</a> (some incorrect); the volume has been recently <a href="glossary.html#refoliated">refoliated</a>.</p>
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<p class="indent">The volume consists of 79 leaves and contains five medical poems. Fols. 28b, 29a, 52a, and 73a are blank. The first item (fols. 1a-28a) is a medical poem by <a href="bioI.html#khatib">Ibn al-Kha<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">ṭ</font>īb</a> (<a href="poetry_7.html#a85item1">MS A 85, item 1</a>). The second item in the volume (fols. 29b-51b) is an anonymous poem of foodstuffs as medicine (<a href="poetry_12.html#a85item2">MS A 85, item 2</a>); the third item (<a href="poetry_6.html#a85item3">MS A 85, item 3</a>) (fols. 52b-72b) is the unique copy of a medical poem by al-Marrākushī here catalogued. The fourth item (fols. 73b-78b) is an anonymous poem on fruits (<a href="poetry_12.html#a85item4">MS A 85, item 4</a>), and the final item (fol. 79a) consists of three miscellaneous medical poems (<a href="poetry_12.html#a85item5">MS A 85, item 5</a>). On fol. 79b there is a recipe written by the same <a href="glossary.html#copyist">copyist</a> as executed the entire <a href="glossary.html#manuscript">manuscript</a>.</p>
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<p class="indent"><a href="abbreviation.html#schullian">Schullian/Sommer</a>, <em>Cat. of incun. & MSS</em>., entry A85 item 2, p. 326.</p>
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