Syrups from the Apothecary's shop: A Genizah fragment containing one of the earliest manuscripts of Minhāj Al-Dukkān

Journal of Semitic Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 137-168

  Chipman, Leigh N ^a   Lev, Efraim ^a  

^a Cambridge University Library

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EID: 35648969889     PISSN: 00224480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jss/fgi086     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. al-Kūhīn al-Atcombining dot belowtcombining dot belowār, Minhāj al-dukkān, ed. Hcombining dot below. al-'Āscombining dot belowī (Beirut 1992), 9.
2. S.D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society. Vol. II: The Community (Berkeley 1971), 265.
3. M. Levey, Early Arabic Pharmacology (Leiden 1973), 98.
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7. For the history of the Genizah and Genizah research, see S.C. Reif, A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: The History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection (Richmond 2000).
8. For a catalogue, see H.D. Isaacs (with the assistance of C.F. Baker), Medical and Para-medical Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge 1994).
9. For surveys of the material, see P. Fenton, 'The importance of the Cairo Genizah for the history of medicine', Medical History, 24 (1980), 347-8;
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11. F. Niessen and E. Lev, 'Addenda to Isaacs' Catalogue of Medical and Para-Medical Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (with the edition of two medical documents) (forthcoming).
12. Isaacs, Catalogue, no. 292.
13. According to R. Dozy, Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (Leiden 1881), s.v., muqāscombining dot belowīrī is 'une epithète du bois de sandal blanc, ou bien de sandal citrin, qui est d'un jaune fauve'.
14. Dozy, Supplément, s.v., 'epithète pour un espèce de camphre'.
15. This is a technical term referring to the addition of lemon juice or honey to sugar syrup to prevent its crystallisation. See L. Mason, Sugar-plums and Sherbets: The Pre-history of Sweets (Totnes 1998), 89.
16. On quartan fevers, see G. Bos (ed. and trans.), Ibn al-Jazzār on Fevers (London 2000), 19-20.
17. Hibbatallah b. Zayn Ibn Jumay', Treatise to Scombining dot belowalāhcombining dot below ad-Dīn on the Revival of the Art of Medicine, ed. and trans. H. Fähndrich (Wiesbaden 1983).
18. Sami K. Hamarneh, 'Ibn al-Tilmidh', Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-90), XIII, 415-16;
19. M. Ullmann, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden 1970), 309.
20. See Ullmann, Medizin, 309;
21. J. Vernet, 'Ibn Abi 'l-Bayān', EI2, III, 683.
22. e siècle', Bullétin de l'Institut d'Egypte 15 (1932-33), 9-78.
23. P. Sbath and C.D. Avierinos (eds. and trans.), 'Sahlān Ibn Kaysān et Rašīd al-Dīn Abū Hcombining breve belowulayka: deux traités médicaux', BIE 25 (1953), 43-75.
24. Royal College of Physicians of London, MS Tritton 38. (A. Tritton, 'Catalogue of Oriental manuscripts of the Royal College of Physicians', JRAS 1951, 182-92).
25. Ibn Abī Uscombining dot belowaybi'a, 'Uyūn al-anbā' fī tcombining dot belowabaqāt al-atcombining dot belowibbā', ed. N. Ridcombining dot belowā (Beirut 1965), 582.
26. Ibn Abī Uscombining dot belowaybi'a, 'Uyūn al-anbā', 546-8.
27. See Z. Amar, 'Traditions and realia in the writings of a tenth-century physician in Jerusalem', Cathedra 81 (1996), 23-34 [in Hebrew];
28. idem., 'The production of salt and sulphur from the Dead Sea region in the tenth century according to at-Tamimi', Palestine Exploration Quarterly 130 (1998), 3-7;
29. Z. Amar and Y. Serri, The Land of Israel and Syria as described by al-Tamimi, Jerusalem physician of the tenth century (Ramat Gan 2004) [in Hebrew].
30. Steinschneider, 'Eine arabische Pharmakopie', 81.
31. Unless otherwise noted, the uses of the materia medica are taken from E. Lev, Medicinal Substances of the Medieval Levant (Tel Aviv 2002).
32. Uses taken from M. Levey, The Medical Formulary or Aqrābā dhīn of al-Kindī (Madison 1966), are marked by an asterisk
33. and those taken from F. Rosner (trans.), Moses Maimonides' Glossary of Drug Names (Haifa 1995), are marked by a tilde.
34. WMS Or. 52a - dated 1904 CE (A.Z. Iskandar, A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library [London 1967], 133-4);
35. WMS Or. 52b - dated to eighth/fourteenth century (A.Z. Iskandar, A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, ibid., 134);
36. WMS Ar. 431 - dated 919/1513 (N. Serikoff, on-line catalogue of the Haddad collection, now at the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine, 2003, http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/cat/haddad/431.shtml);
37. WMS Ar. 439 - dated to twelfth/eighteenth century (N. Serikoff, Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine, ibid., http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/cat/ haddad/439.shtml).
38. Cambridge University Library 1123 (Dd.5.10) - dated to 1056/1645 (E.G. Browne, A Handlist of Muhammadan Manuscripts in the Library of the University of Cambridge [Cambridge 1900], 223).
39. For this term and the use of such tables, see N.I. Serikoff, 'Image and letter: "Pace" in Arabic script (A thumbnail index as a tool for a catalogue of Arabic manuscripts and criteria for its construction)', Manuscripta Orientalia 7 (2001), 55-66.
40. For a description of this manuscript, see N.I. Serikoff (ed.), A Descriptive Catalogue of the Christian Arabic Manuscripts Preserved in the St. Peterburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Louvain 2004), 304.
41. For a description of this manuscript, see N.I. Serikoff, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Christian Arabic Manuscripts Preserved, ibid., p. 100.