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Forschungsbibliothek Gotha (Gotha, Germany), Ms. orient. A 1933
| Manuscript | Forschungsbibliothek Gotha (Gotha, Germany), Ms. orient. A 1933 |
| Shelfmark | Ms. orient. A 1933 |
| Repository | Forschungsbibliothek Gotha |
| Location | Gotha, Germany |
| Data Source | Catalogue (Pertsch) |
| Manuscript length | 181 folia |
| Physical description | The first nine folia of the manuscript are missing. So are two folia which were originally placed between folia 36 and 37. Slight water and worm damage. |
| Date range | 1598 |
| Copy date status | Inferred |
| Notes & references | Ulrich Jasper Seetzen bought the manuscript between 1803 and 1805 in Aleppo. |
Related people
| Person name | Ilyās b. Yūsuf b. Ghānim al-Naṣrānī |
| Role | is a reader |
| Date range | 1701 - 1701 |
| Person name | Yūḥannā b. Ilyās b. Yūsuf b. Ghānim al-Naṣrānī |
| Role | is a reader |
| Date range | 1558 - 1558 |
| Person name | Shukr Allāh Arūtīn al-Ṭabīb |
| Role | is an owner |
| Person name | Ḥannā al-ṭabīb |
| Role | is an owner |
Related marginalia
| Type of marginalia | Reading |
| Marginalia | نظر في هاد الكتاب المبارك العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى الراجي [...] ربه غفران زلته [...] الفقير |
| Summary | Reader's note which is not legible. |
| Location in manuscript | Folio 10v |
| Language(s) | Arabic |
| Type of marginalia | Reading |
| Marginalia | نظر في هذا الكتاب المبارك العبد الفقير الراجي من ربه غفر زلته وهو يحيا ابن الحكيم طقطق وهو مشتراي باسمي [...] [...] |
| Summary | Reader's note by Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥakīm Ṭaqṭaq which mentions the purchase of the manuscript. |
| Location in manuscript | Folio 11v |
| Language(s) | Arabic |
| Type of marginalia | Ownership |
| Marginalia | ملك هاذا الكتاب المبارك العبد الحقير [شكري] الطبيب [ابن اروتين] الماروني في مدينة حلب شهبه في سنة 1112 |
| Summary | The humble servant [Shukrī] al-Ṭabīb, [the son of Ārūtīn] the Maronite, possessed this book. In the city of grey Aleppo in the year 1112 (= 1700/1 CE). |
| Location in manuscript | Folio 1r |
| Language(s) | Arabic |
| Type of marginalia | Reading |
| Marginalia | نظر في هذا الكتاب المبارك العبد الحقير الراجي عفو من ربه الكثير السيات القليل الحسنات الذي لم يستحق ان يذكر اسمه بين الناس وهو الطبيب الياس ابن يوسف ابن غانم النصراني غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن قرا وترحم عليه امين سطر نهار الثلثا ثالث شهر ربيع الاول سنه ثمانيه [[...] [...]] |
| Summary | The humble servant who wishes for the mercy of his Lord, who has done many bad works and few good ones, and who is not worthy of being mentioned by name among the people, the physician Ilyās b. Yūsuf b. Ghānim al-Naṣrānī, may God forgive him, his parents, and whoever reads this and wishes mercy upon him. Amen. It was written on Tuesday, the third of the month of Rabīʿ al-awwal in the year eight […]. |
| Location in manuscript | Folio 181v |
| Language(s) | Arabic |
| Type of marginalia | Reading |
| Marginalia | نظر في هدا الكتاب المبارك العبد الحقير الراجي غفور من ربه الكريم الكثير السيات القليل الحسنات الدي لم يستحق ان يدكر اسمه بين الناس وهو يحنا ابن الطبيب الياس ابن يوسف ابن غانم النصراني غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن قرا واترحم عليه امين سطرت نهار الخميس من شهر شوال الذي هو من سنة سته من بعد الالف |
| Summary | The humble servant who wishes for the mercy of his generous Lord, who has done many bad works and few good ones, and who is not worthy of being mentioned by name among the people, Yūḥannā, the son of the physician Ilyās b. Yūsuf b. Ghānim al-Naṣrānī, may God forgive him, his parents, and whoever reads this and wishes mercy upon him. Amen. It was written on Thursday, in the month of Shawwāl of the year six after one thousand (= 1598 CE). |
| Location in manuscript | Folio 181r |
| Language(s) | Arabic |
| Notes & references | Almost exactly the same wording as the father's statement in the same manuscript. |
| Type of marginalia | Ownership,Name |
| Marginalia | الفقير يوحنا الطبيب |
| Summary | The poor Yūḥannā al-Ṭabīb. |
| Location in manuscript | Folia 3r, 172r |
| Language(s) | Arabic |
| Notes & references | On both folios indicated a stamp can be found which reads Yūḥannā, as opposed to the more usual Ḥannā. Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb used a different stamp later in his life. |
Related manuscript Items
| Translated title | A commentary on the Questions of Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq | ||
| Title | شرح الموجز | ||
| Content | A commentary on the questions of Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq. The author is unknown due to the missing beginning of the manuscript. | ||
| Copy date | 1742 - 1771 | ||
| Copy date status | Inferred | ||
| Language(s) | Arabic | ||
| Incipt | على الاطلاق وان كان اعتدال في الرطوبة واليبوسة والانحراف عنه في جانب الحرارة والبرودة كان اما مزاجاً حاراً اواما بارداً وان كان الاعتدال في البرودة والحرارة والانحراف في الرطوبة واليبوسة كان المزاج اما رطباً واما يابساً وذلك اربعة امزجةٍ مفردةٍ ولا يمكن | ||
| Genre | Medicine | ||
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Related references
| Reference | Wilhelm Pertsch, Die Arabischen Handschriften der Herzoglichen Bibliothek zu Gotha, Die Orientalischen Handschriften der Herzoglichen Bibliothek zu Gotha: Dritter Theil, Bd. 3 (Gotha: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1890). |
| Cited range | 473-474 |
| Reference | Feras Krimsti, The Lives and Afterlives of the Library of the Maronite Physician Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb (c. 1702–1775) from Aleppo, Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 9.2-3 (2018), pp. 190-217. |
| Cited range | 200; 202 |
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