Kitāb Mā lā yasaʻu al-ṭabīb jahluh
Contributors: Ibn ʻAbd al-Nabī, ʻAbd al-Nabī Muḥammad, scribe; Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner; Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, d. 1248; Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1682
Language: ara
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Arab Medicine; Early works to 1800; Materia medica; Pharmacology; Arabic Manuscripts
Work titles: Mā lā yasaʻu al-ṭabīb jahluh
Description: A well-organized medical treatment manual explains the evolution of the healing art in the Middle Ages. It is an abridgement of Ibn al-Baytar's "Kitāb al-Jāmiʻ li-mufradāt al-adwiyah," with some additions dealing with nutrition and medicine.
Notes: Ms.

Title from colophon.

Colophon states that the ms. was completed on the seventh day of the eighth month 1093 by ʻAbd al-Nabī Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Nabī.

Paper: yellowed cream; some leaves at the beginning of the work have been repaired; some pages show serious termite damage; red borders on fol. 1b and 2a only, remainder of text is not framed; written in black ink with names of plants, animals, and minerals in red ink; catchwords on versos.

Library of Congress. Arabic manuscripts, SM-8.

Naskhī script; 27 lines in written are 16.5 x 7.5 cm.

Some vocalization of rubrics, remainder of text unvocalized.

Fol. 1b-347 a.

Envelope binding; old leather in poor condition; flap reinforced.

Fihris makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fī maktabat al-Kūngris, 12.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Arabic.

Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.