Abu ‘Ali Yahya ibn ‘Isa Ibn Jazlah al-Baghdadi (d.1100 AD), Kitab Taqwim al-abdan fi sahat al-insan fi tadbir al-‘am ('The Almanac of Bodies in the Regime of People'), signed by ‘Ali ibn Abi Bakr al-Hanafi, Egypt or Syria, Mamluk, dated 878 AH/1473-74 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 93 leaves plus 2 flyleaves, 20-30 lines to the page, written vertically and horizontally within various charts in black, red and blue ink, headings in larger naskh script, occasional marginal glosses, contemporary brown morocco binding with tooled and gilt oval central medallion emanating foliate sprigs, with knotted corner pieces and ropework border

In fairly good overall condition, some water stains, smudges and stains, binding scuffed and abraded, spine repaired, as viewed.
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Ibn Jazlah was a Christian Nestorian from Baghdad who converted to Islam in 1073-74, and became head physician to the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadi bi-Amr Allah (r.1075-94). His Latinized name was Buhahylyha Bingezla, and his treatise on regimen was translated into Latin in 1280 AD by the Sicilian Jewish physician Faraj ibn Salem.

According to Emilie Savage-Smith ,” this handbook of regime, in tabular format, was written  before his [Ibn Jazlah] widely read treatise  on material medica  titled Minhaj al-bayan. The treatise was dedicated to the Caliph al-Muqtadi bi-Amr Allah. It consists of forty-four tables, covering 352 illnesses for which the names, causes and symptoms recorded on one page with the appropriate course of treatment (tadbir) on the facing page”. Another undated copy of this work, probably fifteenth century in date, is in the Bodleian Library, see E. Savage-Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, volume I: Medicine, Oxford, 2011, pp.573-5, entry no.161.

Two copies, one of which is datable to the twelfth century, are in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, see A. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, volume VII, Dublin, 1964, p.96, no.5304. Two further copies, the first dated 527 AH/1133 AD (OR 2793 / 2) and the second datable to the thirteenth century (OR 5862 / 3) are in the British Library, see C. Baker (ed.), Subject – Guide to the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library, London, 2001, M.3, pp.360-1. See also C. Brockelmann: GAL, I. 485 (639) and GAL, S.I. 887-88.

For a detailed list of the contents (provided in Arabic) of a copy of this work dated 2 Muharram 994 AH/24 December 1585 AD, see N. Serikoff, Arabic Medical Manuscripts of the Wellcome Library – A Descriptive Catalogue of the Haddad Collection, Leiden, 2005, pp.123-131, WMS Arabic 418