Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Yahya bin Zakariya al-Razi (d. AD 925), Kitab al-Hawi fi'l-Tibb, The Comprehensive Book of Medicine, also known as al-Hawi al-Kabir, The Large Comprehensive Book, or al-Jami' al-Kabir, The Large Compilation, copied by Muhammad...
Arabic manuscript on paper, 465 leaves, 25 lines to the page written in elegant nasta'liq script in black ink, titles and names picked out in red throughout, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, catchwords in wide margins, first folio containing an illuminated title-page a later replacement, otherwise in good condition, later Safavid or Indian 17th Century brown morocco covers with stamped central medallions decorated with floral sprays in red on a gold ground, rebacked and repaired
265 x 177 mm.
According to Emilie Savage?Smith, 'this is a large private notebook or commonplace book into which al-Razi places extracts from earlier authors regarding diseases and therapies and also recorded interpretations and clinical cases from his own experience. Following al-Razi's death, Ibn al-'Amid, a statesman and scholar appointed vizier to the Buyid ruler Rukn al?Dawlah in AD 939, purchased from al?Razi's sister the notes comprising the Hawi. He then arranged for the pupils of al?Razi to put the notes in order and make them available. The material comprising the Hawi is arranged under headings of different diseases, with separate sections on pharmacological topics, corresponding to twenty?three volumes in the modern printing published in Hyderabad'.
There are four volumes of this work, the earliest of which is dated 14 Sha'ban 845/28th December 1441 (MS Marsh 156), in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (see E. Savage?Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I: Medicine, Oxford 2011, pp. 162?171. There are two copies, one dated AH 713/AD 1313 (ARUN OR 14), in the British Library, London (see P. Stocks & C.F. Baker (edd.), Subject?Guide to the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library, London 2001, p.365, M.3. See also Brockelmann, GAL, I. 234 (268) no. 1; Suppl. I. 418 ? 419.
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Arabic manuscript on paper, 465 leaves, 25 lines to the page written in elegant nasta'liq script in black ink, titles and names picked out in red throughout, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, catchwords in wide margins, first folio containing an illuminated title-page a later replacement, otherwise in good condition, later Safavid or Indian 17th Century brown morocco covers with stamped central medallions decorated with floral sprays in red on a gold ground, rebacked and repaired
265 x 177 mm.
According to Emilie Savage?Smith, 'this is a large private notebook or commonplace book into which al-Razi places extracts from earlier authors regarding diseases and therapies and also recorded interpretations and clinical cases from his own experience. Following al-Razi's death, Ibn al-'Amid, a statesman and scholar appointed vizier to the Buyid ruler Rukn al?Dawlah in AD 939, purchased from al?Razi's sister the notes comprising the Hawi. He then arranged for the pupils of al?Razi to put the notes in order and make them available. The material comprising the Hawi is arranged under headings of different diseases, with separate sections on pharmacological topics, corresponding to twenty?three volumes in the modern printing published in Hyderabad'.
There are four volumes of this work, the earliest of which is dated 14 Sha'ban 845/28th December 1441 (MS Marsh 156), in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (see E. Savage?Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, vol. I: Medicine, Oxford 2011, pp. 162?171. There are two copies, one dated AH 713/AD 1313 (ARUN OR 14), in the British Library, London (see P. Stocks & C.F. Baker (edd.), Subject?Guide to the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library, London 2001, p.365, M.3. See also Brockelmann, GAL, I. 234 (268) no. 1; Suppl. I. 418 ? 419.
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