MS Arabic 9

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Multiple dates are found throughout the volume. 1167 A.D. is seen on folio 148b. 1200 A.D. is found on the older leaves. The year 1871 A.D. can be seen on the more modern leaves
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MS Arabic 9. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A composite manuscript originating from Syria. There are 5 manuscripts within this volume, mostly pharmacopoeia. The last manuscript in the volume is unidentified.

Publication/Creation

Syria, Multiple dates are found throughout the volume. 1167 A.D. is seen on folio 148b. 1200 A.D. is found on the older leaves. The year 1871 A.D. can be seen on the more modern leaves.

Physical description

Material: paper; leaf dimensions: diameter 170mm, length 230mm; written dimensions: diameter 110mm, length 190mm

Acquisition note

Bought from Murad Baroody in Beirut, Lebanon, for £7. Accessioned on 12th March 1915.

Hand note

Script:Naskh Ink: Black and red Scribe: Multiple scribes mentioned. Older leaves written by the copyist Ibrahim Ibn Nasr Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Hasan Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Munir al-Kindi (a physician). Modern leaves written by the copyist Toma Butrus Jibara, a physician of Damascus. Originally transcribed from a manuscript written by the copyist 'Abd al-Kafi al-Farajani.

Ownership note

Known owners: Ya'qub Ibn al-Khuri Jirjis, physician of the Nuri hospital in Tripoli, Syria (modern day Lebanon).

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