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Daiber I Ms. 47

145 folios; 20×14,5 cm; 19-21 lines; Yemenite naskhi by different hands. Original leather binding (repaired). Hand of the 11th/17th century. According to fol.78r the ms. was acquired 1184/1770 by Husayn Ibn Ahmad in the Yemenite town Barat برط . Some parts of the ms. are copied later; 102v mentions Rabi' II 1307/November 1889 and 115v Jumada I 1207/December 1792.

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Contents

  1. [1]

    Cover and Preliminary leaves.

  2. [2] [1266] fol. 1r - 98v

    Tashil al-manafi' fi al-tibb wa-al-hikma تسهيل المنافع في الطب والحكمة

    This medical compendium about diseases and remedies has neither author nor title and is incomplete at the end. The chapter-headings are written in red ink. A comparison with the edition Cairo 1886 proves that our text is a shorter recension which was compiled by the author (lived in the 9-10th/15-16th century) perhaps before the longer (printed) version and for his own use On this and on the sources of the text cf. H. DAIBER, Neue Handschriftenfunde aus dem Jemen und aus der Südosttürkei. Die Erstversion des Tashil al-manafi' fi al-tibb wa-al-hikma. - In Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Suppl. III/1, Wiesbaden 1977, p.661-668.

  3. [3] [1267] fol. 101v - 102v

    al-Qasida al-Dimyatiya القصيدة الدمياطية

    On the author (died 921/1515) and the mss. of this still unedited poem about the names of God see GAL S II 481 (cf. S II 361 nr. 15 and GAL II 254 nr. 15).

  4. [4] [1268] fol. 103r - 115v

    Qasidat al-Burda قصيدة البردة

    with anonymous commentary. On the author (died 694/1294) and the text of this poem in praise of the prophet see GAL I 265 nr. 1 and S I 467 nr. 1.

  5. [5] [1269] fol. 116r - 145r

    A poem in praise of the prophet, with takhmis تخميس .

  6. [6] fol. 146r - 147r

    Terminal leaves and Back cover.