Author
Avicenna, 980-1037 al-Shaykh al-Ra'īs Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Sīnā al-Bukhārī Ibn Sina, Abu Ali Husayn ibn Abdullah, 359-415 BC / 970-1025 AD
Author Original
ابن سينا، ابو علی حسين بن عبدالله، ۳۵۹۴۱۵ ق ۹۷۰۱۰۲۵ م
Subject
Medicine, Medicine, Persian, Medicine, Oriental
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
ff. 759 Dimensions (leaf): 29.5 × 20.5 cm. Dimensions (written): 22.5 × 12 cm.
Library
FIHRIST Library
Library Asset ID
Wadh.Minasian 1
Record ID
7799
Library Location
The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford
Notes
This book is one the most important and mose comprehensive books by Avicenna in medicine, one of the most prominent medicine books in the Islamic civilization, and one of the most important works in medicine in the ancient world. In the Islamic civilization, there are three books that are considered as the most important medicine books by Muslim medics: Al-ḥāvī by Mūḥammad Zakariyā Rāzī, Kāmil al-ṣanāʿah by Majūsī Ahvāzī, and Qānūn by Avicenna. Amongst these works, Avicenna's Qānūn excels the other works with respect to the richness of content and the quality of expression. Qānūn contains five books, including: book one: Kulliyāt al-ṭibbiyah, book two: al-Adviyah al-mufradah, book three: al-Amrāz̤ al-juzʾiyah li-kull-i ʿuz̤v, book four: al-Amrāz̤ al-juzʾiyah al-ghayr al-mukhtaṣṣah bi-ʿuz̤v, and book five: al-Adviyah al-murakkabah. Numerous commentaries have been written on this book, some of the most important of which to include: Sharḥ-i Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Sharḥ-i Muḥammad bin Aḥmad Amshāṭī, Sharḥ-i Fakhr al-Dīn Rāzī, Sharḥ-i Quṭb al-Dīn Ibrāhīm bin ʿAlī Miṣrī, Sharḥ-i ʿAlā al-Dīn bin Abū Ḥazm Qurashī, Sharḥ-i Mūsá bin Yūnis. This copy is lacunary from around the middle of the fifth book.
Sample Text
(fihrist) || It is a garbadine. The first book is Four Arts. The first art in terms of medicine and its topics. The second art is in classifying diseases, their causes, and their overall symptoms. The third art... Bismillah, the first chapter of the first education of the first art of the first book of the law. In the definition of medicine, I say that medicine is a science from which the conditions of the body are known...
Koleksiyon
Oriental Manuscripts Minasian Collection
Biçim
codex
Yazı Türü
Graceful, curvasive Nastiʿaliq and naskh, several hands, regular.
