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<h1><a name="top"></a>Catalogue: Medical Therapeutics</h1>
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<p class="indent">NLM has in its collections two items that are anonymous general discourses on the treatment of diseases. The first has been misattributed to <a href="bioG.html#galen">Galen</a> because its title, <em>Kit&#257;b al-May&#257;mir</em> is the same as the Arabic translation of Galen's Greek treatise usually referred to by its Latin title <em>De compositione medicamentorum secundum locus</em> (<em>On the compound remedies arranged according to the location of the ailment</em>, i.e. head to foot). The Arabic treatise contained in the NLM <a href="glossary.html#manuscript">manuscript</a> of this title (<em>Kit&#257;b al-May&#257;mir</em> or <em>The Book of Homilies</em>) is very different, however, from the Arabic version of Galen's treatise, though it does emphasize the use of compound remedies in treating diseaes occuring in different parts of the body. Moreover, a number of medieval Islamic authorities are cited in this anonymous treatise, including <a href="bioI.html#masawayh">Ibn Masawayh</a> (<a href="glossary.html#d">d.</a> 857/253) who was the teacher of <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>, Ibn Zakar&#299;y&#257;&#8217; (presumably Ab&#363; Bakr Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ammad ibn Zakar&#299;y&#257;&#8217; al-<a href="bioR.html#razi">R&#257;z&#299;</a>, who died <a href="glossary.html#ca">c.</a> 925/313), and Isma&#8216;il al-<a href="bioJ.html#jurjani">Jurj&#257;n&#299;</a> (<a href="glossary.html#d">d.</a> <a href="glossary.html#ca">c.</a> 1136/532).</p>
<p class="indent">The second anonymous general therapeutic piece is only a fragment -- that is, the opening page of the third part of a larger treatise, and this third part is concerned with ailments that are of short duration. No author is supplied in the fragment, and the larger treatise from which this is a fragment has not been identified.</p>
<p class="indent">Both items are contained in the same NLM manuscript (MS A 39), though they were transcribed by different <a href="glossary.html#copyist">copyists</a> and on different paper.</p>
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<em>Kit&#257;b al-May&#257;mir</em> &nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="ms">(MS A 39, item 2)</span></dt>
<dd>(<em>The Book of Homilies</em>)</dd>
<dd><strong>&#1603;&#1578;&#1575;&#1576; &#1575;&#1604;&#1605;&#1610;&#1575;&#1605;&#1585;</strong></dd>
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<p class="indent">The treatise at NLM titled <em>Kit&#257;b al-May&#257;mir</em> has been misattributed to <a href="bioG.html#galen">Galen</a> because its title is the same as the Arabic translation of Galen's Greek treatise usually referred to by its Latin title <em>De compositione medicamentorum secundum locus</em> (<em>On the compound remedies arranged according to the location of the ailment</em>, i.e. head to foot). The Arabic treatise contained in the NLM manuscript of this title is very different from the Arabic version of Galen's treatise, though it does emphasize the use of compound remedies in treating disease occuring in different parts of the body. Moreover, a number of medieval Islamic authorities are cited in the anonymous treatise, including (on fols. 170a) <a href="bioI.html#masawayh">Ibn Masawayh</a> (<a href="glossary.html#d">d.</a> 857/253) who was the teacher of <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>, (on fols. 186a) Ibn Zakar&#299;y&#257;&#8217; (presumably Ab&#363; Bakr Mu<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7717;</font>ammad ibn Zakar&#299;y&#257;&#8217; al-<a href="bioR.html#razi">R&#257;z&#299;</a>, who died <a href="glossary.html#ca">c.</a> 925/313), and (on fol. 282b) Isma&#8216;il al-<a href="bioJ.html#jurjani">Jurj&#257;n&#299;</a> (<a href="glossary.html#d">d.</a> <a href="glossary.html#ca">c.</a> 1136/532).</p>
<p class="indent">The treatise concerns diseases of different parts of the body and their therapy, with particular emphasis on compound remedies. It consists of 33 <em>mayamir</em> (homilies) with each individual homily subdivided into subsections (<em>maqalahs</em>).</p>
<p class="indent">The treatise has not been published in a modern translation or edition. No other copies are recorded.</p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Physical Description</span></h2>
<p class="indent">Arabic. 293 <a href="glossary.html#leaves">leaves</a> (fols. 2a-294b). <a href="glossary.html#dimensions">Dimensions</a> 16.3 x 8.0 (text area 12.5 x 5.3) cm; 24 lines per page. The title <em>Kit&#257;b al-May&#257;mir</em> is given in the <a href="glossary.html#colophon">colophon</a> (fol. 17a line 17) to the first section (<em>mujallad</em>) which the <a href="glossary.html#copyist">copyist</a> transcribed. The author is not named; it has been misattributed to <a href="bioG.html#galen">Galen</a> by Sommer (<a href="abbreviation.html#schullian">Schullian/Sommer</a>, <em>Cat. of incun. &amp; MSS</em>, p. 310) and by F. Sezgin (<a href="abbreviation.html#sezgin">Sezgin, GAS III</a>, p. 412) because the Arabic version of Galen's <em>De compositione medicamentorum secundum locus</em> circulated under the name <em>Kit&#257;b al-May&#257;mir</em>; Hamarneh (<a href="abbreviation.html#hamarnehN">Hamarneh, "NLM"</a>, p. 81-82) refutes this attribution. </p>
<p class="indent">The copy is dated at the end of the first section (<em>mujallad</em>) on (fol. 17a line 21-22) where it is stated that an unnamed <a href="glossary.html#copyist">copyist</a> completed that portion of the copy on 12 Sha&#8216;ban 938 [= 20 March 1532].</p>
<p class="indent">The copy is incomplete. The entire 1st <em>maymar</em> (homily) and the beginning of the 16th <em>maymar</em> are missing. Some of the other <em>mayamir</em> are out of sequence: part of 13th is written on fols. 33a-37b, and the 16th-21st are on fols. 2a-79b. The text is written in a small, compact <a href="glossary.html#nastaliq">nasta&#8216;liq</a> in black ink with headings in red. There are <a href="glossary.html#catchword">catchwords</a> (many cut off when the edges of the paper were trimmed).</p>
<p class="indent">There are some marginal corrections.</p>
<p class="indent">The brown, glossy, thin, <a href="glossary.html#burnished">burnished</a> paper is fibrous, and has only <a href="glossary.html#laid">laid lines</a> visible. There is some water damage. The paper has been trimmed from its original size, cutting off some off many of the <a href="glossary.html#catchword">catchwords</a> and some of the <a href="glossary.html#marginalia">marginalia</a>.</p>
<p class="indent">The volume consists of 295 leaves. Fol. 1a is blank; fol. 295a is blank while 295b has only a few miscellaneous short notes. Fol. 1b (item 1) is a fragment of a chapter on the treatment of short-term diseases, catalogued immediately below; fols. 2a-294b (item 2) is the item here catalogued.</p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Binding</span></h2>
<p class="indent">The volume is bound in blue and white printed paper with floral and geometrical designs pasted over black leather on back and front covers. There are brown leather <a href="glossary.html#doublure">doublures</a> and modern paper <a href="glossary.html#endpapers">endpapers</a>. </p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Provenance</span></h2>
<p class="indent">The volume was acquired in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A.S. Yahuda who acquired it in Homs, Syria (ELS 1759 med. 57). </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 A39 p. 310, where it is attibuted to Galen; <a href="abbreviation.html#hamarnehN">Hamarneh, "NLM"</a>, pp. 81-82. </p>
<p class="psource">NLM Microfilm Reel: FILM 48-119 no. 6 </p>
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<em>F&#299; amr&#257;d al-mukhta<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7779;</font>ar / al-Fann al-th&#257;lith f&#299; al-amr&#257;d al-mukhta<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7779;</font>ar</em> &nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="ms">(MS A 39, item 1)</span></dt>
<dd>(<em>On Abbreviated Diseases / The Third Chapter on Abbreviated Diseases</em>)</dd>
<dd><strong>&#1601;&#1609; &#1575;&#1604;&#1575;&#1605;&#1585;&#1575;&#1590; &#1575;&#1604;&#1605;&#1582;&#1578;&#1589;&#1585;</strong></dd>
<dd>Anonymous</dd>
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<p class="indent">This is only a fragment -- that is, the opening page of the third part of a larger treatise. This third section (<em>fann</em>) is concerned with the treatment of ailments that are of short duration. The discussion begins with diseases of the brain; all but the first <a href="glossary.html#folio">folio</a> is missing.</p>
<p class="indent">No author is supplied in the fragment, and the larger treatise from which this is a fragment has not been identified.</p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Physical Description</span></h2>
<p class="indent">Arabic. 1 <a href="glossary.html#leaf">leaf</a> (fol. 1b). <a href="glossary.html#dimensions">Dimensions</a> 16.3 x 8.0 (text area 11 x 5.5) cm; 20 lines per page. The title is given on fol. 1b as <em>al-Fann al-th&#257;lith f&#299; al-amr&#257;d al-mukhta<font face= "Arial Unicode MS">&#7779;</font>ar</em>; fol. 1a is blank. The author is not named.</p>
<p class="indent">The copy is undated and unsigned; The appearance of the paper, script, and ink suggests a date of the 16th-17th century. The paper, though similar in color, is different from that of the rest of the volume (item 2, fols. 2a-294b catalogued above). It is also written in a different hand.</p>
<p class="indent">Only the opening page of the third part (<em>fann</em>) of an unidentified treatise is preserved. Following the title, the discussion begins with diseases of the brain; all but the first <a href="glossary.html#folio">folio</a> is missing.</p>
<p class="indent">The fragment is written in a different hand from the rest of <a href="glossary.html#manuscript">manuscript</a>. It is written in a medium-small professional <a href="glossary.html#naskh">naskh</a> using black ink with some passages in red. There are <a href="glossary.html#catchword">catchwords</a>.</p>
<p class="indent">The brown, thin, semi-glossy paper has horizontal straight <a href="glossary.html#laid">laid lines</a> and single <a href="glossary.html#chain">chain lines</a>; no <a href="glossary.html#watermarks">watermark</a> is visible. The paper, though similar in color, is different from the rest of the volume.</p>
<p class="indent">The volume consists of 295 leaves. Fol. 1a is blank; fol. 295a is blank while 295b has only a few miscellaneous short notes. Fol. 1b is the item here catalogued; fols. 2a-294b (item 2) is the anonymous <em>Kit&#257;b al-May&#257;mir</em> catalogued immediately above.</p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Binding</span></h2>
<p class="indent">The volume is bound in blue and white printed paper with floral and geometrical designs pasted over black leather on back and front covers. There are brown leather <a href="glossary.html#doublure">doublures</a> and modern paper <a href="glossary.html#endpapers">endpapers</a>. </p>
<h2><span class="h2blue">Provenance</span></h2>
<p class="indent">The volume was acquired in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A.S. Yahuda who acquired it in Homs, Syria (ELS 1759 med. 57). </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 A39 (this item not described).</p>
<p class="psource">NLM Microfilm Reel: FILM 48-119 no. 6 </p>
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