Hādhā kitāb fatḥ al-tadāwī min jamīʻ al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī
By: tālīf al-ṭabīb al-māhir Abī Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī ...
Contributors: Muḥammad Dhū al-Qarnayn ibn ʻAyn al-Dawlah, d. 1162, associated name
Language: ara
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Nutrition; Pharmacology; Arab Medicine
Work titles: Fatḥ al-tadāwī min jamīʻ al-amrāḍ wa-al-shakāwī fī mufradāt al-ʻaqāqīr
Description: The text is a complete treatise on hygiene and diet and the art of preserving good health.  It describes the nourishment of the parts of the human body as well as medical drugs.  The text consists of six synoptic tables, each of which is divided into 16 parts.  Fol. 1a-17b contain the introduction; fol. 18a-21a are blank.  The rest of the book consists of tables:  fol. 21b-26a are a table of contents with in 6 columns on each page. fol. 26b-142a contain tables of 8 columns that present the names of drugs, their advantages and disadvantages, and how to use them.
Notes: Ms.

[Malatya, Turkey?]

Paper:  cream, with watermarks (Andrea Galvani Pordenone); varies in thickness, in medium condition.  First 10 leaves are loose.  Black, red, and violet ink on title page, text is principally in black with some rubricated words.  Text framed by double violet line (fol.1a - 17b) and by double red line (fol.21b-142a). Catchwords on first 17 leaves.

Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, SM-57.

Fol. 1b-2a records that the text was originally written for the Amīr Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad Dhū al-Qarnayn ibn ʻIzz [i.e. ʻAyn] al-Dawlah, the son of Amīr Ghāzī. This appears to be the Danishmendid ruler Dhū al-Qarnayn (d. 1162).

Naskhī script; 19 lines in written area, 17 x 9 cm.

Tables (fol.21b-142a).

Fol. 1a-142a.

Binding:  old cardboard covered with paper marbled in red, blue, and black; the front side is missing and the spine is loose.  Leather on spine. It appears that fol.1a - 17b and fol. 21b-142a originally bound in separate volumes.

Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fī maktabat al-Kungris, 44.

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

Arabic.