TADKHIRAT ULI AL-ALBAB - AN OTTOMAN MEDICAL TREATISE (VOLUME 2)...
TADKHIRAT ULI AL-ALBAB - AN OTTOMAN MEDICAL TREATISE (VOLUME 2) BY SHAYKH DAOUD AL-ANTAKI (D. 1599)
Ottoman Egypt, dated Monday 15 Rabih'Al Awwal 1104 AH (1692 AD), copied by Qassim Ibn Mohammad Ibn Nourelddine Al-Shafi'
Arabic manuscript on lined paper, composed of 333 leaves, incomplete (vol. I is missing), 19 lines to the page, written in black cursive script, with significant words picked out in red throughout; catchwords, brown leather Ottoman binding with flap, decorated with an impressed medallion filled with cloudbands and pendants.
20.5 x 16.5cm
Dāwūd ibn ʿUmar al-Anṭākī (d. 1599), also known in Western sources as David of Antioch or David of Antioch the Blind, was a physician and scholar of medicine and pharmacology. He was born in Antioch in the mid-sixteenth century to a Christian family, the son of a local leader from Karyat Sidi Habib al-Najjar. Born blind, he nevertheless travelled extensively throughout Asia Minor and died in Mecca in 1599. His most important work is Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-l-jāmiʿ lil-ʿajab al-ʿujāb, a medical compendium covering diseases and remedies in three chapters, modelled on the medical writings of Ibn al-Bayṭār. He also wrote shorter treatises on subjects such as the philosopher’s stone and astrology.
For similar examples:
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha (Add MS 12187).
The Cambridge University Library (Add. 3510).
Cadbury Research Library, Birmingham (Islamic Arabic 242 and 848).
The Bodleian Library, Oxford (MS.Hyde 37).
Brockelmann, G, II, 364.
A close related example was sold in these rooms last year, 28 October 2025, lot 15.
Provenance:
The collection of George Antaki.
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TADKHIRAT ULI AL-ALBAB - AN OTTOMAN MEDICAL TREATISE (VOLUME 2) BY SHAYKH DAOUD AL-ANTAKI (D. 1599)
Ottoman Egypt, dated Monday 15 Rabih'Al Awwal 1104 AH (1692 AD), copied by Qassim Ibn Mohammad Ibn Nourelddine Al-Shafi'
Arabic manuscript on lined paper, composed of 333 leaves, incomplete (vol. I is missing), 19 lines to the page, written in black cursive script, with significant words picked out in red throughout; catchwords, brown leather Ottoman binding with flap, decorated with an impressed medallion filled with cloudbands and pendants.
20.5 x 16.5cm
Dāwūd ibn ʿUmar al-Anṭākī (d. 1599), also known in Western sources as David of Antioch or David of Antioch the Blind, was a physician and scholar of medicine and pharmacology. He was born in Antioch in the mid-sixteenth century to a Christian family, the son of a local leader from Karyat Sidi Habib al-Najjar. Born blind, he nevertheless travelled extensively throughout Asia Minor and died in Mecca in 1599. His most important work is Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-l-jāmiʿ lil-ʿajab al-ʿujāb, a medical compendium covering diseases and remedies in three chapters, modelled on the medical writings of Ibn al-Bayṭār. He also wrote shorter treatises on subjects such as the philosopher’s stone and astrology.
For similar examples:
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha (Add MS 12187).
The Cambridge University Library (Add. 3510).
Cadbury Research Library, Birmingham (Islamic Arabic 242 and 848).
The Bodleian Library, Oxford (MS.Hyde 37).
Brockelmann, G, II, 364.
A close related example was sold in these rooms last year, 28 October 2025, lot 15.
Provenance:
The collection of George Antaki.
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
