Spain, Madrid, Real Biblioteca de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 873

Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 145 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 220 x 145 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    The collation of this manuscript is in big disorder - this is why some texts are given with intercalations of other texts.
  • Condition Description:
    Water damage; parts of text no. 9 are not readable any more
  • Hand Description:
    Many different (up to 9) hands, maghribī script
    Text n°2: 24 lines to the page
    Text n°3: 24 lines to the page
    Text n°4: 22 lines to the page
    Text n°5: 36 lines to the page; this part of the manuscript was written by Yahūda ibn Abū (sic) l-Ḥasan Salomon Ibn Waqqār al-Isrāʾilī in Guadalajara (on the Ibn Waqqār family see Derenbourg , p. 77 (Ms. El Escorial 870)); date not cleary readable but probabaly 1333 CE
    Text n°6: 36 lines to the page
    Text n°7: 36 lines to the page
    Text n°8: 36 lines to the page; this part of the manuscript was written by the same scribe as text n°5 in Toledo ; it is dated 05th November 1359 CE
    Text n°9: 25 lines to the page
    Text n°10: 17 lines to the page
    Text n°11: 33 lines to the page; this part of the manuscript was written on the basis of an autograph by Yahūda ibn Salomon ibn Yahūda Ibn Waqqār (this is the same scribe as that of texts n°5 and n°8) in Guadalajara ; it is dated 11th November 1387 CE (Sunday (sic), 10th November 1425, old Spanish calendar / 28th Shawwāl 789 h.)
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: Spain
  • Hartwig Derenbourg , Les manuscrits arabes de l’Escurial, vol. 2, 1 Vol. Vol. 2, fasc. 2, Paris (1903) [pp. 81 ff.]
Content
Abū l-Ḥasan Yahūda ibn Abū (sic) Isḥāq ibn استيلجه (sic) (a physician and "vizier") Fragment of a treatise on medicine 84r - 145v
  • Incipit:
    F. 86v : Diseases of the eyes
    F. 95r : Diseases of the ears, diseases of the tongue
    F. 97r : Diseases of respiratory organs
    F. 102v : Diseases of the heart
    F. 108r : Diseases of the stomach
    F. 111v : Diseases of the liver
    F. 118r : Helminthiasis
    F. 135r : Fevers, etc.
  • Note:
    Beginning is lacking Many citations of Galen , Paulus Aegineta , Rhazes , and Ibn Māsawaih . According to the catalogue, at the end of the text there is a vague information that maybe this treatise has been compiled on the basis of Rhazes ' Kitāb al-Ḥāwī. The structure ("head to toe") of the text is given by non numbered qaul with subdivisions in ‘alāmāt and ‘ilājāt.
Anonymous Three astronomical and one astrological tables 2r - 5r
  • Incipit:
    1) Position of the sun in the zodiac / زعم قوم ان غرض هذا الكتاب هو التاءتي لشفاء الحميات فقط النح
    2) Average height of the sun for euch day on noon in Toledo / غاية ارتفاع الشمس فى كل يوم فى نصف نهار طليطلة
    3) Average length of dayly hours for the latitude of Toledo / ساعات النهار المعتدلة لعرض طليطلة
    4) Astrological table / تحلويل سنى العالم والمواليد
Anonymous Last page of a text on the treatment of ulcers (qurūḥ) 5r - 5v
  • Explicit:
    واذا افرط ضعف القوة اعتمد من المشتهى اقله ضرا فهذا متى يعتمد عليه والله يسفيك بمنه
Anonymous Fragment of a treatise with recipes 11r - 20r
  • Incipit:
    منقية العين ، منقى الاذن ... الفم ، الخ
  • Note:
    Beginning and end are lacking
Anonymous Fragments of the "Smaller Canon" 20r - 21r
  • Note:
    Big parts of the 8th, 9th, and 10th maqālāt are lacking
Anonymous Fragment on medical questions in 16 fuṣūl (with many citations of Galen , Rhazes , etc.) / من نوادر مسائل الطب ، اذا سمعها الطبيب غير الماهر تركها 21v - 21v
  • Incipit:
    F. 21v : قال الاسكندر ان البلادر يولد الجذام واحتراق الدم الخ
Anonymous Treatise on simple medicines and their use in all illnesses 22r - 24v
Anonymous Medical questions and answers (extracts of mainly of Hippocrates , Galen , and Ibn Buṭlān ) 33r - 52v
  • Incipit:
    F. 33r : Hippocrates ' Aphorisms book II
    F. 34r : Hippocrates ' Aphorisms book IV
    F. 35v : Hippocrates ' Aphorisms book V
    F. 36r : Hippocrates ' Aphorisms book VII
    قال السائل ... قال المجيب ...
    F. 38v : Pulse and urine diagnostics, signs of death
    F. 40r- 48v : Excerpts of Hippocrates ' Epidemics and Prognostics
    F. 46r- 49v : Excerpts of Galen ' Causes and differences of illnesses, etc.
    F. 51r : Excerpt of Ibn Buṭlān
  • Explicit:
    F. 39v : فصول لربنا موسى بن اللاوى رضٓه وهى عشرة فصول
Anonymous Medical questions and answers (extracts of Maimonides and other authors) 53r - 70v
  • Incipit:
    F. 73r : 2nd bāb: on incontinence at night-time
    F. 74v : 2nd maqāla: on ephemera fever
    F. 75r : (part of the 3rd maqāla): on consumptive fever
    F. 75v : ما الفرق بين الحمى المحرقة وحمى الغب الدائمة
  • Note:
    Beginning is lacking
Averroes Treatise on the Theriac 5v - 11r
  • Incipit:
    F. 5v : فقال الحكيم محمد بن رشد ... اما بعد حمد الله فانه سالنى من وجبت على طاعته ان انبت له على طريق البرهان الطبى ما قالوه الاطباء فى المواضع التى يستعمل فيها الترياق وما ضمنوه من افعاله الخ
  • Note:
    Incomplete at the end
Hunayn ibn Ishaq Medical fragment 71r - 72v