Johannitius, 809-873

Medical miscellany St John's College MS 197

ARTICELLA, CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN; S. XIII1 Merton College MS. 255

ARTICELLA &c.; S. XIV Merton College MS. 220

ARTICELLA &c.; S. XIII ex. Merton College MS. 221

HIPPOCRATES, GALEN &c; S. XIII 3/4 Merton College MS. 222

2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Ethics and Arabic proverbs — Multiple dates MS. Bodl. Or. 221

Gerard of Montpellier, Johannitius, Richard of Bloxham (?), Walter Agilon — 14th century or 15th century; English MS. Ashmole 1498

An illustrated copy of Iṣṭafan ibn Bāsil's Arabic translation of Books III-V of Dioscorides' Materia Medica. — Multiple dates; Copied in al-Madrasah al-Niẓāmīyah, Baghdad? MS. Arab. d. 138

The volume contains 133 leaves. Folios 128b, 129ab, and 130b are blank. Folio 128a has a later note classifying twenty-five worldly activities (اعمال الدنيا). Folio 130a contains a fragment of the books of wisdom in the Septuagint, quoting Solomon the Wise (سليمان الكلي الحكمة) and the book of Ḥunayn [= Yashūʿ] ibn Shīrāḥ [the book Sirach]; see Graf, GCAL, i. 128. Folio 131ab is another fragment from the wisdom literature, while folios 132a−133b contain the moral narrative of an unnamed ruler who seeks the counsel of his wazir regarding the state of his soul following his necessary departure from this world, possibly composed by a monk (al-rāhib, folio 133b). — 1299?* MS. Bodl. Or. 231

1 work on the subject of Human anatomy — 18th cent.? MS. Marsh 448

41 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Bills of sale, Astrology, Medicine, Koran, Tales, Registers, Theology, Documents, Promissory notes, Qasidas, Correspondence, Karaites, Bible, Islamic law, Mathematics, Yemen, Islamic Empire, and Amulets — Multiple dates MS. Arab. c. 56

The volume contains 171 leaves plus two preliminary leaves and two end leaves. Folio 171b has 24 lines of casually written recipes useful, amongst other things, for the pain of gnashing teeth, for producing a peaceful sleep, for increasing sexual enjoyment, for toothache, and for throbbing pain. The preliminary and end leaves are blank except for (on the second preliminary leaf) the ex libris of Archbishop Laud dated 1635 and a statement in the same Latin hand that the volume contains Galen’s commentary interpreted by ‘Harim Ben Isaac’. MS. Laud Or. 139

Ars medicinae (Articella); France or Germany, 13th century, end MS. Laud Lat. 106

22 works by 11 authors — 1634 MS. Ouseley 95

3 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Medicine and Materia Medica MS. Hyde 34

9 works by 7 authors on the subjects of Astronomy and Astrology — Multiple dates MS. Marsh 618

16 works by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 on the subjects of Geometry, Optics, Astronomy, and Mathematics — 1319 MS. Arch. Selden A. 45

5 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Medicine and Teeth MS. Huntington 461

Alfragnus — 14th century and 15th century MS. Rawl. C. 543

2 works by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 809?-873 on the subjects of Medicine and Materia medica — 12th cent.? MS. Huntington 600

6 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Medicine, Botany, and Materia medica — Multiple dates MS. Huntington 602

2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Medicine and Anatomy MS. Marsh 158

3 works by 3 authors on the subject of Medicine — 1614 MS. Marsh 16

4 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Euclid's Elements, Geometry, and Astronomy — 1579 MS. Huntington 237

1 copy of Masāʼil fī al-ṭibb by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 809?-873 MS. Marsh 403

1 copy of Thamarat al-ḥāwī fī iʻānat al-mudāwī by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 809?-873 MS. Huntington 491

31 works by 17 authors MS. Huntington 240

12 works by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 on the subjects of Geometry, Mathematics, and Astronomy — 1452 MS. Arch. Selden A. 46

1 copy of Commentary on the medical questions of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq 809? - 873 by Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, d. after 1068 — 1235 MS. Marsh 98

Iohannitius, Hippocrates, Theophilus, Philaretus, Galen, Isaac Iudaeus, Constantinus Africanus — 13th century, third quarter; English MS. Auct. F. 5. 30

Johannitius, Hippocrates, Theophilus, Philaretus, Galen — 13th century, second quarter; French or English MS. Laud Lat. 65

Ars medicinae (Articella) and other medical texts in Latin and German; 13th century, first half, with additions MS. Lat. misc. e. 2

Commentary on Johannitius, Isagoge ad Artem paruam Galeni, Commentary on Hippocrates, Aphorismata, Commentary on Theophilus, Liber urinarum, Commentary on Hippocrates, Prognostica, Commentary on Philaretus, Liber pulsuum — 12th century, second half; French, South MS. Digby 108

Regula S. Benedicti — 14th century, first half; German MS. Laud Misc. 237

Johannitius, Hippocrates, Benedictus Reguardatus, Petrus de Abano, Guy Chauliac — 15th century MS. Ashmole 1475

2 works by 2 authors on the subject of Medicine — 1294 MS. Greaves 25

The volume contains 169 folios. Folio 118b has a table of contents written by a tenth/sixteenth-century hand for the second item in the volume. A table of contents for the first item is written by the same hand on the front pastedown, which also has a one-line Karshūnī note reading Kitāb Ibn Abī Ṣādiq, as well as Latin notes regarding the nature of the two main items in the volume, a Latin version of the opening of the first aphorism, and the date 20 March 1667. Folio 167a−b has a short discourse by one Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Jamāl al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ṭurays al-mutaṭabbib, written in a large and fairly early hand with many ligatures and very few dots, in which he says that the most noble of books on the medical arts is the Aphorisms of Hippocrates along with the Taqdimat al-maʿrifah (by al-Dakhwār, d. 628/1230), and that he immersed himself also in the Kitāb al-Nīlīyah by Abū Sahl ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Nīlī (d. 420/1029) and the Kitāb al-Asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt of al-Samarqandī (d. 619/1222), amongst others. Folio 169ab is blank except for pagination in Arabic numerals. Karshūnī notes providing subject headings occur on folios 89a (al-ṣudāʿ, headache), 133a (fī al-istisqāʾ, on dropsy), 164a (fī al-buḥrānāt, on crises), and 165a (al-ruʿāf al-radī, a persistent nosebleed). — bef. 1369 [13th cent.?] MS. Thurston 10