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'ALI IBN AL-'ABBAS AL-MAJUSI (D. CIRCA AH 384/994-95 AD): KITAB KAMIL AL-SANA'AH AL-TIBBIYYAH
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium. A SCHOLAR’S TREASURY THE COLLECTION OF PROFESSOR RUDOLF GELPKE(LOTS 1-50)The following fifty lots come from the collection of Professor Rudolf Gelpke (1928-1972), a Swiss scholar and lover of Persian literature. It was a visit to Tunisia in 1952 that first sparked his interest in the Islamic world. He visited the Great Mosque of Kairouan and later described being completely mesmerized by the serene atmosphere he found there. The visit set the course that was to govern the rest of his life. On his return he took a degree in Oriental Studies at the University of Basel, swiftly becoming one of the university’s youngest professors. His PHD dissertation focused on the life of the Ghaznavid Sultan Mas’ud (Sulṭān Masʿūd I. von Gazna: die drei ersten Jahre seiner Herrschaft, Munich, 1957) could have tickled him to see a marble from Mas’ud III’s palace in the same sale as his collection (lot 52). However it was the rapidly expanding Iran which swiftly became Gelpke’s big love. He first visited in 1958, then returned regularly, and lived there permanently from 1963 despite stints teaching at both UCLA in California and the University of Berne in Switzerland, where he completed his postdoctoral thesis on Persian prose literature. During his time there he also worked for various literary and scientific magazines and participated in radio programs on art and literature. From his first novel, Holger und Mirjam, which was published in 1951 when Gelpke was still in his 20s, he went to publish widely. Gelpke’s works include numerous essays on Persian culture together with German translations of classical and modern Persian literature, notably: Nizami, Haft Paykar (Die sieben Geschichten der sieben Prinzessinnen, Zurich, 1959Persische Meistererzähler der Gegenwart, Zurich, 1961Laylī o Majnūn (Leila und Madschnun), Zurich, 1963Naqīb-al-Mamālek, Amīr Arsalān (Liebe und Abenteuer des Amir Arsalan), Zurich, 1965Saʿdī, Golestān (Hundertundeine Geschichte aus dem Rosengarten, Zurich, 1967Neue Liebesgeschichten aus Tausendundeine Nacht, Zurich, 1969Gelpke’s collection is that of a true scholar. He was obviously interested in manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects. From a rare Jalayrid illustrated historical manuscript, to a handsomely illuminated Qajar Qur’an or a copies of works by Ibn Sina, the collection touches on all subjects. Each individual manuscript seems to have intrigued him. Gelpke was a scholar through and through, and the opening fly-leaves of each of his manuscripts have copious notes – some typewritten and pasted in, others furiously scribbled in pencil – all going into a meticulous level of detail on the book in question. From suggested dates and attributions, to lists of interesting page numbers, a transcription of seals or little sums where he converted dates from the Hijri calendar, working through them, one really feels the love and the keen scholarly interest that Gelpke had in each and every one of his manuscripts. At the heart of the collection are folios from the ‘Gelpke Album’. Probably mounted in the late 18th century, the album contains calligraphic specimens and Indian and Persian paintings of the highest quality. Although on the whole unrelated in content, there is a high concentration of later Safavid paintings all bound together in a spectacular binding painted by Muhammad Zaman. Further manuscripts from this scholarly collection will be included in the Islamic and Indian Art auction at Roseberys, London SE27 0JD which will take place on 23 October 2017. AN EARLY COPY OF IBN AL-MAJUSI'S KITAB KAMIL AL-SANA'AH AL-TIBBIYYAH
'ALI IBN AL-'ABBAS AL-MAJUSI (D. CIRCA AH 384/994-95 AD): KITAB KAMIL AL-SANA'AH AL-TIBBIYYAH

SIGNED ABU SA'ID 'ABD AL-RAHMAN BIN ABI'L-FAWARIS BIN GHANIM BIN MUHAMMAD AL-KAZARUNI, IRAN, DATED SAFAR AH 590/JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1194 AD

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'ALI IBN AL-'ABBAS AL-MAJUSI (D. CIRCA AH 384/994-95 AD): KITAB KAMIL AL-SANA'AH AL-TIBBIYYAH
SIGNED ABU SA'ID 'ABD AL-RAHMAN BIN ABI'L-FAWARIS BIN GHANIM BIN MUHAMMAD AL-KAZARUNI, IRAN, DATED SAFAR AH 590/JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1194 AD
Complete Book of the Medical Art, Arabic manuscript on buff paper, 194ff. each with 25-26ll. of flowing black naskh, important words and phrases highlighted in red, catchwords, occasional early marginal notes, first folio lacking, colophon signed and dated, final folio with later owners' notes, in worn brown morocco, paper covered doublures, the first covered with notes in Hebrew
Folio 9 7/8 x 6 ½in. (25.1 x 16.5cm.)
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Al-Majusi’s Kitab Kamil al-Sana’ah al-Tibbiya is a comprehensive medical encyclopaedia which is also sometimes known as al-Kitab al-Malaki, ‘The Royal Book’. It was dedicated to the Buyid ruler, ‘Adud al-Dawlah Fana-Khosraw (r. AH 338-72/949-83 AD). Al-Majusi was of Persian extraction, and it is possible that his activities were restricted to Shiraz, never actually leaving Iran. His forebearers are recorded as being Zorastrian although he himself appears to have been a Muslim. The Bodleian Library in Oxford has seven copies of the work, the earliest one dated AH 556/1160-61 AD, less than fifty years earlier than ours (Emilie Savage-Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, volume I, Medicine, Oxford, 2011, pp.193-206, no.50).

This manuscript comprises the first five discourses (maqalah) of the second part of the work. The first chapter and the beginning of the second chapter are missing here. The complete work consists of two parts - the first ten discourses are on medical theory, while the final ten are on its practical application. This volume consists of the first five discourses of the second half.

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