Author
‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī
Publication Date
15 Sha‘bān 842 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 14154, ff 247v-334v
Record ID
vdc_100066152341.0x000003
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
15 Sha‘bān 842 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Notes
Commentary by ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī (Alā al-Din Ali ibn Abi al-Hazm al-Qurashi, d. 1288), known as Ibn al-Nafīs (Ibn al-Nafīs), on the anatomical material in Avicenna’s (Ibn Sīnā, Ibn Sina, d. 1037)
Canon of Medicine
(Law in Medicine).
The copy was completed on 15 Sha‘bān 842/31 January 1439 (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 334v, lines 13-15, transcribed below).
The commentary is followed by notes and poems in Arabic and Persian by hands later than that of the main scribe.
Begins (247v, lines 2-5):
Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, said Sheikh Imam and scholar Abu Al-Hasan Alaa Al-Din Ali bin Abi Al-Hazm Al-Muttabbab Al-Qurashi, may God have mercy on him.
After praising God and blessings be upon His prophets and messengers, our intention now is to provide what is available to us of the investigations based on the words of the main Sheikh Abi Ali.
Al-Hasan bin Abdullah bin Sina, may God have mercy on him, in Anatomy from the Sentences of the Book of Laws, by collecting what he said in the first book of
He wrote the law to what he said in the third book of these books...
Ends (f. 334v, lines 7-12):
...so
We have deleted the discussion of it here, and we will re-explain this chapter in a simpler way than this, and we will investigate the explanation of its words and investigate
Talking about the opinions he mentioned and other things, if we take the explanation of the third book of the books of law and say
Now, our statement in this chapter and other chapters on the art of anatomy is that such-and-such is contracted by heat or burned by the influence of blood or spirit.
And so on, all of this is for the learner to understand and bring the matter closer to him in perception, but in reality this is only by the will of the person.
He is not afflicted by oversight, nor is He unable to do anything, and He is the Creator, the Almighty, alone...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 334v, lines 12-15):
...The letter was completed, thanks to God, His good guidance, and blessings be upon Khatam
His sons Muhammad and his entire family died on the fifteenth
Shaban Al-Mu'azzam, the year forty-two
Eight hundred Hijri Prophet
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Fancy, Nahyan,
Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt: Ibn al-Naf
īs, Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection
(London: Routledge, 2013)
Fancy, Nahyan, 'Medical Commentaries: A Preliminary Examination of Ibn al-Nafīs’s Shurūḥ, the Mūjaz and Commentaries on the Mūjaz'
Oriens
41 (2013) 525-545
Iskandar, A.Z.,
A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library
(London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1967), pp. 40-42
Ullmann, Manfred,
Die Medizin im Islam
(Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 173-77
