Dispensatorium Parvum (al-Aqrābādhīn al-saghīr) / by Sabur Ibn-Sahl ; (Edited by) Oliver Kahl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibn-Sahl, Sabur, author.

Contributor:

Kahl, Oliver, editor.

Series:

Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies ; 16.

Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Arab.

Pharmacy--Early works to 1800.

Pharmacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Aqrābādhīn al-ṣaghīr.

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1994.

Summary:

This book comprises a philological analysis and critical edition of an undated, anonymous Arabic pharmacopoeia, preserved in the form of a unique manuscript. A study of the manuscript showed that it represents the oldest hand-written witness of Arabic pharmacology known to date, and one of the earliest pharmacopoeias ever written in Arabic, viz. the small, and authentic version of an otherwise lost or, in the course of transmission, largely transmuted Aqrābādhīn originally composed by the Christian physician Sābūr b. Sahl (d. 255/869). Following a brief introduction, the manuscript is described, analysed and illustrated by ten facsimiles. A biographical sketch of the author is followed by a critical edition of the manuscript. Philological observations, a glossary of technical terms, and indices are appended to the edition.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface

Note on transliteration

I. Introduction

II. The Manuscript

1. Description

2. Structure

3. Dating

4. Authorship

5. Identity

Plates 1-10

III. The Author

IV. The Edition

Orthography

Morphology and syntax

Arabic text with apparatus criticus

V. Philological Observations

VI. Glossary

1. Weights and measures

2. Utensils and equipment for the preparation of drugs

3. Categories of drugs and/or forms of application

Bibliography

Indices

1. Arabic

2. Greek

3. Syriac

4. Persian et al

5. Miscellaneous

Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004450479

9004450475

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004450479 DOI