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Al Maghribi, Ibrahim bin Abi Sa'id al-'Ala'i. Al Fatih fi al-Tadawi li Jamee' al-Amradh wa al-Shakawi, Known as al-Adwiya al-Mufrada, Copied by 'Ali bin 'Isa bin Abi al-Fatih al-Arbili, Seljuk, Persia, Dated A.H. 684/A.D.1284
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Description
- Copied by 'Ali bin 'Isa bin Abi al-Fatih al-Arbili
142 leaves, 21 lines per page of naskhi script in black ink on sepia paper, catchwords and titles highlighted in red, page 23 onwards consisting of tables delineated in light brown, unbound
Catalogue Note
This interesting early Seljuk medical manuscript was composed by Ibrahim al-Maghribi, an intellectual patronised by the Seljuk prince Danishmandiden Dhu'l Qarnain (r. A.H. 546-557/A.D.1151-1161). The original colophon has been diligently copied in this manuscript, recording the date of completion as A.H. 595/A.D.1198 in the Anatolian city of Harran. This particular version was produced only 88 years later in A.H. 683/A.D. 1284, the same year that the Anatolian ruler Kay Qubadh III came to the throne.
Brokelmann records other copies of the manuscript appearing under different titles in the Bodleian, Paris, Rampur, Mosul and Rabat, (see SI, 890, 17a).