Author
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Publication Date
1182 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 16659, ff 35r-100v
Record ID
vdc_100148048612.0x000007
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1182 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Treatise on logic, physics and metaphysics by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (Abu Ali Al-Hussein bin Abdullah), known as Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).
Contents:
Chapter One from the Elements of Logic (Essay One of the Principles of Logic, ff. 35v-51v);
Chapter One from the Physics (First Treatise of Physics, ff. 52r-75r);
Chapter One from the Metaphysics (First Treatise of Theism, ff. 75r-100v).
This copy was made from the Medicean edition published at Rome (in Tipografia Medicea, 1593) as shown clearly by its inclusion of a concluding note appended to that edition, which warns that the text contains many statements contrary to 'our Catholic faith', 'Christian doctrine' and 'our Catholic creed', f. 100v, lines 18-25. Like the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
to text 46 (f. 552r, lines 21-26), which was also copied from the exemplar, the concluding note here was canceled by the scribe.
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Cureton, William and Charles Rieu,
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens
(London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 978, pp. 447-51
Rieu, Charles,
Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum
, 3 vols. (London: The British Museum, 1879-83), vol. 2, pp. 438-39
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Editions:
Avicenna, 'Kitāb al-najāh mukhtaṣar al-shifāʼ', in Libri quinque canonis medicinae. Quibus additi sunt in fine libri logicae, physicae et metaphysicae. Arabice nunc primum impressi (Rome: in Tipografia Medicea, 1593), text 2
Avicenna, al-Najāh fī al-ḥikmah al-manṭiqīyah wa-al-ṭabīʻah wa-al-ilāhīyah (Cairo: Maktabat Muṣtafá al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī, 1938)
Studies:
Gutas, Dimitri, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition. Introduction to Reading Avicenna’s Philosophical Works, 2nd ed., including an Inventory of Avicenna’s Authentic Works (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014), p. 424
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 317, p. 124, item E2
