Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine in London / [compiled] by Stefan Strelcyn.

  • Stefan Strelcyn
Date:
[1972]
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Credit: Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine in London / [compiled] by Stefan Strelcyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    17/34 (page 41)
    dtl'i- '•), migraine (<£A0+ •• CKh '•), and colic (qw9rsat), fever (nddad), disease of children (/fi01/^* ArhfT- 0> f°r ^ne nose '•), f°r scrofula (?°7i(? •■)> e^c. 33 (ff. 58r.-60v.). Magical prayers and prescriptions: for causing enmity (fW9AA ••), against wild beasts (AJtCB ! 9^C ')> etc, for causing impotence and stopping urination {?tbv>C ftfttvih '-)• 34 (ff. 60r.-62r.). Five magico-medical prescriptions against rheumatism (A'/>*4c]t<77'7' !)> prescriptions against eye disease (A'M&J^ « ih^T* •), sores (fl'MA 0> syphilis (A'fcT^ ••)> smallpox (fansasa), for the sterile woman (makan), migraine (fdlsata ra's), fever (pw/t :), colic (A^Cfl-ih «)» f°r the madman (if MIA* ■• rtfl>- »)> against a rabid dog (Ml.Jt r»-<V ••)> Pus (A^'JA impotence (^fih^'fe «), for the sterile woman (a<w»»i7 35 (f. 62r.-v.). Treatise of divination, Hasaba hobar. 36 (ff. 62v.-64v.). Magical prayers and prescriptions against goitre (ftA * MfrCT «), eye disease (A'Vje.'* •), migraine (AA<P0'f* ■ [sic] Cfcft •), etc. 37 (ff. 64v.-65v.). Prayer for expelling devils ; Mark v, 1-20. 38 (ff. 65v.-66r.). Magical prayer against devils, mastdma aganmt t . . . X/Hh « flVH* * tf»ftTtf s hpTi* ■). 39 (f. 66r.). Magical prayer against fdrqdqat, barya, and legewon. 40 (if. 66v.-67v.). Another prayer against devils, rmsfoma aga[ndnt], various magical prayers, two of them for revelation (A<S-?»J& «)• 41 (ff. 67v.-71r.). Chronological notes (ftfoprf- ■ <fr'TC *). 42 (f. 71r.-v.). Notes concerning the Ddggwa 1 Hymnary '. Incipit: hChM- • s Ali'/ah : 0iv« MW&fr = ?°<1A» : Cf. Grebaut-Tisserant, 244, 2. 43 (f. 72r.-v.). Hasab of the ill (rhOfl ■ JtovjE. s) followed by a similar without title. Cf. No. 4. 44 (f. 73r.). Hasab of the sick (,Mfl s /h 0, difTerent from No. 2. 45 (f. 73r.-v.). Hasab indicating the medical actions of which each is dangerous mainly for one day of the week, with the corresponding recipe to combat it. Incipit: § : pWi * ahih£ * K£ * A-(1?a &d.Cif I a*&&tfh] >. iTC ' • MlF : h?%& s . . . . 46 (ff. 73v.-80v.). Medico-magical prescriptions for a good journey (f^llS^ s [sic]), against buda and the cough (A<^A ')> the disease of the genitals (f^CT «)> the hail s), stones being thrown at someone by magic (htRd9°(L for causing love (Aft['H<i-<PC :), for causing enmity (^ft-f^AA :), against haemorrhoids (fgcn « £*B ')> f°r undoing charms, maftdhe sway, against thieves (AA»H ••)> against sotalay, rheumatism (1*m:t7'7- «), etc. 47 (ff. 81r.-82r.). Short treatises of divination (hasab), amongst them: hasab zamanazdl (cf. No. 11), hasab of beer (cf. No. 6), hasab of wealth (thrift *fl?iA ••) (cf. Nos. 9,13), hasab to know your own disease (rhOfl •• tt-frh9°G • /h'71/* - AO/h-irfj »)> hasab of pregnancy (cf. No. 26), etc. 48 (ff. 80v.-92r.). Various hasab: for a journey (cf. No. 12), to know whether a man will vanquish or not (AAA •• : (d-i-wi*0,. -.), of fate (cf. No. 8), of the ill (cf. Nos. 4, 43), a hasab to know the disease feared, according