Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 1211-1288 ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم، 1210 or 1211-1288
Published / Created:
22 Rajab, 745 H1055 H [29 November, 1344]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 23
Image Count:
222
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
al-Mūjaz fī al-ṭibb, a compendium of medicine by Ibn al-Nafīs, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī al-Mutaṭabbib (1210 or 1211-1288), an illustrious and prolific scholar of the 13th century and a prominent physician and a practical and experimental medical researcher who refused to accept the previous medical opinions of Greek and Muslim scholars (including Galen and Avicenna) without proof and to whom is attributed the discovery of the micro cardiovascular system. He was born in Damascus, Syria but lived and worked in Cairo, Egypt. He depended in his treatment of illnesses mostly on nutritious foods rather than medications. The present manuscript is an abridgement and explantion of Avicenna's al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb "Canon of medicine" (excluding the chapters on anatomy and physiology) based on his own observations and experimentations. Copied by al-Muhadhdhab al-Musayyijī on Monday 22 Rajab, 745 (29 November, 1344). Place of copying not mentioned, probably Egypt
Alternative Title:
Hādhā kitāb ʻulum al-ṭibb min jamīʻ al-aṣnāf, al-amrāḍ, al-ʻilāj ʻan al-ḥukamāʼ al-qudamāʼ and هذا كتاب علم الطب من جميع الأصناف، الأمراض، العلاج عن الحكماء القدماء
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Qāla al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ḥabr qudwat al-ʻulamāʼ wa-raʼīs al-fuḍalāʼ farīd dahrihi wa-waḥīd ʻaṣrihi Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī al-Mutaṭabbib qaddasa Allāh rūḥahu: qad rattabtu hādhā al-kitāb ʻalá arbaʻ funūn. al-Fann al-awwal fī qawāʻid juzʼay al-ṭibb, aʻnī ʻilmahu wa-ʻamalah bi-qawl kullī ...", 13 x 24.5 cm ; written surface: 8.5 x 18.5 cm, 25 lines per page, In loose dark brown leather binding; a substitute cover., In good naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings and keywords in red; catchwords., Some collations and commentaries on the margins., On leaf 1a an ownership note in the name of Anṭūn walad Jirjis., and Colophon: "Tamma al-kitāb bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-mannih. ʻAllaqahu li-nafsih wa-li-man shāʼa Allāh baʻdah al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá raḥmat Allāh wa-ruḍwānih al-Muhadhdhab al-Musayyijī ʻafā Allāh ʻanhu wa-raḥima man naẓara fīhi wa-ṣafaḥa ʻan zalalih wa-daʻā la-hu bi-al-maghfirah. Āmīn. Waqaʻa al-taḥrīr min taʻlīqihi yawm al-Ithnayn, thānī ʻishrīn shahr Rajab al-mubārak sanat 745 [Monday, 29 November, 1344]. Balagha muqābalatan wa-taṣḥīḥan"
Subject (Name):
Avicenna, 980-1037. and Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 1211-1288.
Copied by Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī in A.H. 660 (A.D. 1261 or 1262).
Description:
On the scribe, cf. Huart, Les calligraphes et les miniaturistes de l'Orient Musulman, Paris, 1908, p. 84 ff., Pasted in is an ALS by Richard J.H. Gottheil in October 29, 1931 to Henry Fletcher describing this manuscript., Calligraphic microscopic naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in blue and gold on leaf 1 verso., Islamic binding, much younger, gilt, with flap., Colophon: "Katabahu Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī sanat sittīn wa-sittimiʼah.", and Translation of the colophon: "Written by Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī in the year 660 [of the Hijrah = 1261/1262]."
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, Henry Prather, 1873-1959., Gottheil, Richard J. H. 1862-1936. (Richard James Horatio),, and Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī, -1299?
Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294.
Published / Created:
[after 1268]
Call Number:
Salisbury MSS 73
Image Count:
196
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The colophon, dated A.H. 666 (A.D. 1268), is presumably that of the original from which this manuscript was copied, probably not many years afterwards. and Treatise on music.
Description:
Calligraphic naskhī., Copious diagrams., From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 88, wrongly ascribed to al-Fārābī). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870., Islamic binding, in brown., and Some errors in contemporary foliation.
Subject (Name):
Silvestre de Sacy, A. I.--(Antoine Isaac),--1758-1838--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding. and Natural and social sciences--Music.
Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, b. 1160. Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389?
Published / Created:
1347?
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 533
Image Count:
10
Abstract:
Commentary on pt. 3 of al-Sakkākī's Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm.
Description:
1347 is perhaps the date of composition., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., Profuse marginalia., and Purchased from Oskar Rescher in 1968 on the Library Associates fund.
Subject (Name):
Rescher, Oskar--1883-1972--Ownership and Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr,--b. 1160.--Miftaḥ al-ʻulūm
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Rhetoric and Islamic binding
A philosophical tract. and Copied some time after A.H. 680 (A.D. 1282).
Description:
Brockelmann and Goldziher (Steinschneider Festschrift, p. 111) ascribe the authorship to Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, and the latter evidently without any proof, since he apparently knew of this tract from this manuscript only., Fair naskhī., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., and With: 6 other titles.