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In: A Literary History of Medicine
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Manuscripts

A

Istanbul, Süleymaniye, Şehid Ali Paşa MS 1923. Completed 27 Shaʿbān 773 (4 Mar 1372). Copyist: ʿAbd al-Hādī ibn Abī l-Mufaḍḍal ibn Abī l-Faraj. [complete copy, from an autograph of Version 2 and completed with a draft of Version 3]

B

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Pococke 356. Completed 15 Rajab 869 (13 Mar 1465) in Mecca; unnamed copyist. [complete copy, Version 1]

Ga/Gb

Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek Or. 59a and Or. 59b (old Cod. 59a. Gol. & Cod. 50b. Gol.). Undated; 16th cent. 2 vols. [Ga is partial copy Version 2; Gb, partial copy Version 3]

Gc

Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Or. 76 (old Cod. 76. Gol.). Dated 20 Ṣafar 977 (4 Aug 1569). [almost complete copy, Version 2]

H

Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Ahmad III Library, MS Ta ʾrīkh 2859/70. Dated 5 Ṣafar 735 (28 Nov 1329). Copyist: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān in the great mosque of the city of Hamah. [partial copy, Version 3]

L

London, British Library MS Add. 23364. Dated 10 Rajab 669 (22 Feb 1271); Damascus; copyist: Syrian physician Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Muḥammad al-Suwaydī al-Anṣārī, copied from the copy endowed by IAU to the Maqṣūrah of Ibn ʿUrwah. [partial copy, Version 3]

P

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS arabe 5939. Copy completed 19 Muḥarram 690 (22 Jan 1291) in Jayrūn near Damascus by Abū l-Faḍl al-Jarāʾiḥī ibn al-Faraj ibn Naṣr al-ʿAsqalānī; annotated, collated against copy in author’s hand. [partial copy, Version 2]

R

London, British Library, MS Add. Rich. 7340. Dated 22 Rajab 1017 (1 Nov 1608) in Isfahan. Copyist: Ibn Muḥammed Shafīʿ Mulla Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn [complete copy, Version 3]

Sa / Sb

London, British Library, MS Add. 25736. Dated 10 Safar 713 (6 Jun 1313); copied by the physician Ibrāhīm al-Khawālifī for his own use. [Sa (first seven folios) is partial copy of Version 2; Sb, partial copy of Version 3]

Earlier Editions

Müller

Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ, ed. A. MüIler. 2 vols. Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿah al-Wahbiyyah / Königsberg: Selbstverlag, 1882–1884.

Riḍā

Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ, ed. Nizār Riḍā. Beirut: Dār Maktabat al-Ḥayāt, 1965.

Najjār

Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ, ed. ʿĀmir al-Najjār. Vol. 1. Cairo: Dār al-Maʿārif, 1996. Vols. 2–6. Cairo: al-Hayʾah al-Miṣriyyah al-ʿĀmmah lil-Kitāb, 2001–2004.

Other Abbreviations

AI

Appendix 1: Ibn al-Nafīs

AII

Appendix 2: Additional Marginalia

IAU

Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah

Ch.xx.xx

Chapters within the ʿUyūn are designated by numbers 1 through 15, followed by the number of an individual biography within that chapter. A third set of numbers refers to a given subsection of a biography. Subsequent numbers in a given sequence refer to items within numbered lists, such as book-lists or lists of aphorisms.

Cross-References

The three volumes have independent pagination. Where a cross-reference does not specify a volume number, the reference will be found in the same volume.

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