Author
Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh
Publication Date
4 Shawwal 1069 (AH, Hijri)
Publication Place
Persia -
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
358 x 212 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 5033
Record ID
vdc_100022857141.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
4 Shawwal 1069 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
The
Canon of Medicine
(Law in Medicine) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (Abu Ali Al-Hussein bin Abdullah), known as Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037). This complete copy of one of the most influential Arabic medical texts is richly illuminated, decorated and bound in Safavid Persian style. The copy was completed on 4 Shawwāl 1069/25 June 1659 by Kulayb ‘Utbat Imām al-Sādis Muḥammad Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad Husayn al-Tabrīzī (clip of Utbat Imām al-Sīth Muhammad Sadiq ibn Muhammad Husayn al-Tabrizi, see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
f. 645r, lines 7-8, transcribed below). The title page (f. 1r) is heavily gilt, and earlier inscriptions are visible below the gold. Folios 1v-14r contain a detailed table of contents, and begins with illuminated frontispiece. Lavishly illuminated frontispieces are found at the beginning of each book (ff. 15v-16r, 103v-104r, 202v, 445v-446r and 592v) at incipit of text. The outer margin of f. 525, that previously bore a seal impression (as evidenced by the ink smudge on the facing page [f. 524v]) had been severed. The fore edge, top and tail are illuminated in gold.
Title page (f. 1r) reads:
This version is in medical science
Great copy including his rules
Total and partial, including
What is necessary for the doctor is called
Legally, divide it into five, as you can see
In the index
Begins (f. 15v, lines 2-4):
The first art of the first book on the definition of medicine and its topics of natural matters includes the course of teachings
The first chapter of the first education of the first art of the first book of the book of law on the definition of medicine
I say that medicine learns from the conditions of a person’s body in terms of what is healthy and removes them in order to maintain ongoing health
Ends (ff. 244v, line 27-245r, line 1):
... Aksumali is the adopted skin
Of vinegar, honey, and water, and some people may find it difficult to use the sea or salt and from
The total number of copies of this is five quthuli and seven quthuli
One ounce of sea salt, ten, and ten of honey
Trustees, and from the water ten goths boil ten
Boils and raises. Oxali vinegar
Mix with salt water. rhodomaly
Syrup made with rose juice and honey
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 645r, lines 5-14):
The book of Al-Aqrābādhīn was completed, and with its completeness the five books were completed
Containing the law and its writing has been completed
At the hands of Kulaib Utba Imam VI Muhammad Sadiq bin
Muhammad Hussein Al-Tabrizi, may God forgive and cover their sins
Their faults with Muhammad and his family, and that was on a Wednesday
The fourth month of Shawwal ended with goodness and prosperity
From the months of the year sixty-nine after
The thousandth of the Prophet’s migration
A thousand thousand
Greetings
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards,
A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894
(London: British Museum, 1912), p. 43
Hamarneh, Sami,
Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library
(Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte 1975), Item 99, p. 102
Köken
Seal, name illegible, dated 1130/1717-18 (f. 262r)
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Ibn Sīnā, Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī,
al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb
, ed. by Idwār al-Qashsh, 2nd edition, 4 vols (Bayrūt: Muʾassasat ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1993)