Ibn al-Ḥājj, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1336 ابن الحاج، محمد بن محمد، -1336
Published / Created:
1887.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 549
Image Count:
212
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
"Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār" (Suns of lights and treasures of secrets), a treatise on Islamic magic and occultism, by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj al-Tilimsānī al-Fāsī al-ʻAbdarī, Abū ʻAbd Allāh (died 1336), a Mālikī Islamic law scholar, from al-Maghrib (North Africa), who came to Egypt and died in Cairo. Copied on Friday, 2 Jumād al-Ākhir, 1304 (26 February, 1887) by Ḥassānayn Khaṭṭāb al-Nujaylī. Place of copying not mentioned
Alternative Title:
Kitāb Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār and كتاب شموس الأنوار وكنوز الأسرار
Description:
In Arabic., Title from folio 1b., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī awdaʻa ruqūm al-ḥurūf badāʼiʻ asrārih, wa-rakkaba minhā maʻāniya asmāʼih, wa-fajjara minhā yanābīʻ al-aʻdād wa-buḥūr al-awfāq bi-mawāhib anwārih, wa-wakkala rūḥānīyatan taqūmu wa-takhdumu arbābahā fī jamīʻ al-maṭālib, tadullu bi-surʻatihā ʻalá faradānīyatihi, fa-fataḥa bisāṭ al-uns, wa-aṭlaʻa man shāʼa min al-ins ʻalá ʻajāʼib malakūtihā mimman akhlaṣa min ʻibādih ...", Secundo folio: ward wa-misk alf marrah., 15 x 22 cm; written surface: 9 x 17.7 cm; 25 lines per page., Binding: In dark brown leather with flap; cover and flap embossed with central medallion., In good naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings in purple; many magic squares and a magic circle; on some leaves a seal with the phrase "Dawāwīn maṣraf"; some corrections on the margins; catchwords., On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār li-Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Tilimsānī al-Maghribī, ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl, wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá kull ḥāl. M.", On folio 1b: "... wa-sammaytuhā bi-Kitāb Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār ...", Colophon: "Tamma bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-ʻawnih. Wa-kāna al-farāgh min hādhā al-kitāb fī yawm al-Jumʻah al-mubārak, al-muwāfiq ithnayn Jumād al-Ākhir, sanat 1304, arbaʻah wa-thalāthmiʼah wa-alf, min al-Hijrah al-Nabawīyah, ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-atamm al-salām. Wa-kāna dhālika ʻalá yad kātibihi wa-nāqilihi al-faqīr ilá al-Karīm al-Wahhāb, ʻabduhu Ḥassānayn Khaṭṭāb al-Nujaylī, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi wa-lil-Muslimīn ajmaʻīn. Āmīn. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, al-Nabī al-ummī, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Āmīn. M.", and Translation of the colophon: "It is completed by the praise of God and His help. The copying of this book was completed on blessed Friday, 2 Jumād al-Ākhir, 1304 of the Hijrah of the Prophet, may the best prayer and the most perfect peace be upon Him. Copied and transcribed by the hand of the poor to the Generous and Abundant Giving One, His servant, Ḥassānayn Khaṭṭāb al-Nujaylī, may God forgive him, his parents and all Muslims. Amen. Amen. Praise be to God Lord of the Universe. May God pray on our Master Muḥammad, the Illiterate Prophet, and on his family and companions and grant them peace. Amen. M."
Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr, Muḥammad ابن الحاج الكبير، محمد
Published / Created:
1598.
Call Number:
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 195
Image Count:
288
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Treatise on Islamic magic and occultism by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr al-Tilimsānī (an obscure author). Copied by ʻAlī ibn Sālim ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī, on Monday, 4 Jumād Awwal, 1007 [?] (3 December, 1598). The date of the year is suspect; it has been erased and re-written in a different hand. 4 Jumād Awwal, 1007, falls on a Thursday not Monday. The manuscript was collated by Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Khawjah (or al-Khūjah). Place of copying not mentioned
In Arabic., Title from folio 1a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit (folio 1b): "Hādhā kitāb mukhtaṣar min Tāj al-mulūk wa-bughyat al-mālik wa-al-mamlūk. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Allāh, innī asʼaluka al-iʻānah ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl, wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallama taslīman kathīran. Qāla Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr // mubtadiʼan bi-bismi al-ilāh al-qadīri. al-Ḥamdu lillāhi alladhī ʻallamanā // sirra al-kunūzi wa-bihi awlānā ... Wa-sammaytuhu bi-Durrati al-anwāri // taḥqīqun fī ṣanāyiʻi al-abrāri ...", Secundo folio: Wa-sammaytuhu bi-Durrati al-anwāri., 16.5 x 23.5 cm; written surface: 9 x 16.5 cm; 21 lines per page., Binding: Brown leather binding with flap, covers embossed with central medallions, in four numbered quires., In good naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; many commentaries and corrections on the margins; magic squares; text within double red frames; catchwords., On folio 1a: "Hādhā kitāb mukhtaṣar min Tāj al-mulūk wa-bughyat al-mālik wa-al-mamlūk musammiyan [musammá] bi-Durrat al-anwār lil-fāḍil Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Kabīr al-Tilimsānī, wa-huwa ʻumdah fī al-funūn al-maʻdūmah, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá. Āmīn. Bi-jāh Sayyid al-Mursalīn.", On folio 1a: A medical snuff recipe for those afflicted with the spirits of the rebellious Jinn: "Ṣifat saʻūṭ lil-muṣāb bi-aryāḥ al-jān al-mutamarridīn ...", On the margin of folio 136b, a coallation note: "Balaghah muqābalatan bi-ghāyat al-diqqah ʻalá yadinā. Kātibuhu al-faqīr Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Khawjah.", On folios 137a and 138a-138b, medico-magical recipes, in a different hand., Colophon (folio 136b): "Tamma hādhā al-kitāb fī yawm al-Ithnayn al-mubārak al-muwāfiq 4 arbaʻah khalat min shahr Jumād Awwal, sanat 1007 [?] alf wa-sabʻ sinīn [?] min al-Hijrah al-Nabawīyah ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-adhká [wa-azká] al-taḥīyah wa-sallama taslīman kathīran dāyiman abadan ilá Yawm al-Dīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. ʻAlá yad kātibihi al-faqīr ilá Allāh ʻAlī ibn Sālim ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī madhhaban, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayh wa-li-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Tamm. Wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-ṣawāb wa-ilayhi al-marjiʻ wa-al-maʼāb. Wa-ilá Allāh tarjiʻ al-umūr. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam.", and Translation of the colophon: "This book was concluded on blessed Monday, 4 Jumād Awwal, 1007 [?] of the Hijrah of the Prophet ... Copied by ... ʻAlī ibn Sālim ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī ..."
Collection of three treatises, as follows: 1. Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb (folios 1a-34b), also called Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, a polemic against Christians and the doctrines of Christianity, by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Mayurūqī, the Arabic name used by the Franciscan monk Anselmo de Turmeda (Turmeda, Anselm, 1352-1432?), after his conversion to Islam. The text proper in this manuscript is preceded by an introduction by Abū al-Ghayth Muḥammad al-Qashshāshī (or al-Qushāshī, could not be identified), in which he titles the work "Taḥīyat al-asrār taʼlīf al-akhyār al-anṣār fī al-radd ʻalá al-Naṣārá min firaq al-kuffār". Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century. 2. Ḥikāyāt ʻan baʻḍ al-mutaqaddimīn (folios 35a-35b), popular tales and anecdotes by an anonymous author/compiler. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century. 3. Kamālat al-durr al-nafīs fī al-radd ʻalá al-laʻīn Iblīs (folios 36a-38b), a polemic against "Iblīs", an Arabic word for the Devil, by an anonymous author, copied on Saturday, 9 Jumād Awwal, 1303 of the Hijrah (13 February, 1886) by Makkāwī al-Sayyid. Place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title of Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb from folio 3a., Title of Ḥikāyāt ʻan baʻḍ al-mutaqaddimīn from folio 35a., Title of Kamālat al-durr al-nafīs fī al-radd ʻalá al-laʻīn Iblīs from folio 36a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit of Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb (folio 1b): "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbih wa-sallam. Wa-baʻd, fa-yaqūlu al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá Rabbihi, subḥānuhu wa-taʻālá, Abū al-Ghayth Muḥammad al-Qashshāshī [or al-Qushāshī]: Lammā naẓartu hādhā al-taʼlīf al-ʻajīb wa-ʻalimtu mā fīhi min al-uslūb al-gharīb, wa-kāna min al-muqarrar fī al-maʻqūl wa-al-manqūl anna al-inṣāf awlá wa-aḥaqq mā taʻāṭathu ayādī al-fuḥūl, bādartu ilá imtithāl mā kāna ḥaqqan ʻalayya, wa-shahidtu bi-ḥusnihi ʻalá an yakūna min ṣāliḥ ʻamal bayna yadayya, fa-qultu: Mā aḥaqqa hādhā al-taʼlīf al-mubārak an tusammá [yusammá] 'Taḥīyat al-asrār taʼlīf al-anṣār fī al-radd ʻalá al-Naṣārá min firaq al-kuffār' ...", Secundo folio of Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb: al-khayrāt mūriqah bi-saḥāʼib raʼfatih., Incipit of Ḥikāyāt ʻan baʻḍ al-mutaqaddimīn (folio 35a): "Ḥaká Ibn ʻAsākir anna Yaʻqūb al-Mājashūn, jadd ʻAbd al-Malik, ṣāḥib Mālik, mātā [māta] wa-wajiʻa fī al-sarīr, wa-ijtamaʻa al-nās lil-ṣalāh ʻalayhi, fa-wajada al-ghāsil ʻirqan taḥta rijlihi yataḥarraku, fa-qāla: Ará an yuʼakhkhara ghasluhu ilá ghad. Fa-lammā aṣbaḥū wa-ijtamaʻa al-nās ʻalayhi wa-jadahu al-ghāsil kadhālika ...", Incipit of Kamālat al-durr al-nafīs fī al-radd ʻalá al-laʻīn Iblīs (folio 36a): "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Ḥamdan lillāh subḥānuhu wa-taʻālá, wa-ṣalātan wa-salāman ʻalá man lā nabīya baʻdah. Ammā baʻd, faqad dhakara al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī fī kitābihi 'al-Kanz al-madfūn wa-al-fulk al-mashḥūn', qāl: Li-ʻilm hādhihi al-shubhah allatī dhakarahā Iblīs, laʻanahu Allāh, min qawlihi 'Anā khayr minhu, khalaqtanī min nār wa-khalaqtahu min ṭīn', innamā dhakarahā ʻalá sabīl al-taʻannut, wa-illā fa-imtināʻuhu min al-sujūd li-Ādam, ʻalayhi al-salām, innamā kāna ʻan kibar wa-kufr, wa-mujarrad ibāʼ wa-ḥasad, wa-maʻa dhālik, fa-mā abdāhu min al-shubhah fa-huwa dāḥiḍ, li-annahu rattaba ʻalá dhālik annahu khayr min Ādam ...", Secundo folio of Kamālat al-durr al-nafīs fī al-radd ʻalá al-laʻīn Iblīs: min awṣāf al-arḍ fī al-Qurʼān., 16.5 x 22 cm; written surface: 10 x 16.5 cm; 22-24 lines per page., Binding: In marbled cardboard with brown leather spine., In good naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings in purple; some corrections on the margins in pencil; catchwords., On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb Taḥīyat al-asrār taʼlīf al-akhyār al-anṣār fī al-radd ʻalá al-Naṣārá min firaq al-kuffār, wa-ayḍan tusammá Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, taʼlīf al-Shaykh ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Mayurūqī, min madīnat Mayurūqah, athābahu Allāh al-Jannah. Āmīn", At the head of folio 35a: "Hādhihi Ḥikāyāt ʻan baʻḍ al-mutaqaddimīn.", At the head of folio 36a: "Hādhihi Kamālat al-durr al-nafīs fī al-radd ʻalá al-laʻīn Iblīs.", Colophon of Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb: "Ghafara Allāh wa-ʻafá ʻan kātibihi wa-muʼallifihi wa-qārīhi ilá abad al-ābidīn. Āmīn.", Translation of the colophon of: Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb: "May God forgive its copyist, its author and its reader, forever and ever. Amen.", Colophon of Ḥikāyāt ʻan baʻḍ al-mutaqaddimīn: No colophon., Colophon of Kamālat al-durr al-nafīs fī al-radd ʻalá al-laʻīn Iblīs: "Intahá mā yassara Allāh taʻālá jamʻahu fī hādhihi al-māddah fī ḍuḥá yawm al-Sabt, al-muwāfiq 9 khalat min shahr Jumād Awwal, sanat 1303, alf wa-thalāthumiʼah wa-thalāthah baʻd al-Hijrah [al-Nabawīyah] ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām, ʻalá [yad] kātibihi, al-faqīr ilá Mawlāh, Makkāwī al-Sayyid, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi wa-li-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn wa-al-Muslimāt, al-aḥyāʼ minhum wa-al-amwāt, wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā wa-Mawlānā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn.", and Translation of the colophon of Kamālāt al-durr al-nafīs fī al-radd ʻalá al-laʻīn Iblīs: "Completed is what God Most High facilitated of the compilation of this material on the morning of Saturday, 9 Jumādd Awwal, 1303 of the Hijrah of the Prophet [13 February, 1886], may the best of prayer and peace be upon him, by the hand of its copyist, the poor to his Lord, Makkāwī al-Sayyid, may God forgive him, his parents, and all Muslim men and women, the living among them and the dead. May God pray on our Master and Lord, Muḥammad, on his family and companions and grant them peace. Amen. Praise be to God, Lord of the Universe."
Subject (Name):
Turmeda, Anselm, 1352-1432?
Subject (Topic):
Christianity, Devil, Islam, and Folk literature, Arabic
Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb, a polemic against Christians and the doctrines of Christianity, by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Mayurūqī, the Arabic name used by the Franciscan monk Anselmo de Turmeda (Turmeda, Anselm, 1352-1432?), after his conversion to Islam. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century
Alternative Title:
Kitāb Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb and كتاب تحفة الأريب في الرد على أهل الصليب
Description:
In Arabic., Title from folio 2a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm wa-bi-hi thiqatī, wa-ʻalayhi iʻtimādī. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī khaṣṣanā bi-khayr al-adyān, wa-jaʻalanā min ummat al-Furqān, wa-akramanā bi-tilāwat al-Qurʼān, wa-ṣawm shahr Ramaḍān, wa-al-ṭawāf ḥawla al-Bayt al-Ḥarām, wa-al-rukūʻ ʻinda al-Rukn wa-al-Maqām, wa-sharrafanā bi-Laylat al-Qadr, wa-al-wuqūf bi-ʻArafāt, wa-jaʻalanā min ahl al-ṭahārah wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-zakāh ... Wa-baʻd, fa-yaqūlu al-Shaykh ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Tarjumān, jaʻala Allāh maḍjiʻahu wa-maʼwāhu fasīḥ al-jinān ...", Secundo folio: ʻalá ʻĪsá ʻalayhi al-salām., 16.5 x 25 cm; written surface: 10.5 x 18 cm; 25 lines per page., Binding: In marbled cardboard with flap; brown leather on spine and flap., In clear naskh/ruqʻah script, in black ink, on white paper; some headings in red; markings in purple; some notes and corrections on the margins in pencil; catchwords., On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb ʻalá al-tamām.", On folio 2a: "... sammaytuhu Tuḥfat al-arīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb ...", Colophon: "Wa-ḥasbunā Allāh wa-niʻma al-wakīl, wa-lā ḥawla wa-lā qūwata illā billāh al-ʻAlī al-ʻAẓīm, wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallama taslīman kathīran ilá Yawm al-Dīn, wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn.", and Translation of the colophon: "God suffices us, He is the best advocate. There is no power nor might except in God, the Most High, the All Powerful. May God pray on our Master Muḥammad, his family and his companions and grant them abundant peace until Judgment Day. Praise be to God Lord of the Universe."
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.
Avicenna, 980-1037, author ابن سينا، 980-1037 مؤلف
Published / Created:
1055 H [1645 or 1646]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 6
Image Count:
1030
Resource Type:
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Abstract:
al-Qanūn fī al-ṭibb, a comprehensive manuscript on Arabic medicine by al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī ibn Sīnā (980-1037), commonly known by the Latinized version of his name Avicenna who was born near Bukhara in Persia (present-day Uzbekistan). Avicenna was the most famous and influential of the many Islamic scholars, scientists, and philosophers of the medieval world. He was foremost a physician but was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, psychologist, philosopher, logician, mathematician, physicist, and poet. His al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (Canon of medicine) became the authoritative reference on medicine in the Middle Ages, not only in the Islamic world but, in Latin translations, in Europe as well. Presented in this manuscript is the second half of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (from al-fann 11 "the 11th art" of the third book to the end of the fifth book). The whereabouts of the first part of the Canon are not known.The colophons indicate that the copy was copied in 1055 H (1645/1656) in the city of Shīrāz, Iran by Muḥammad Qulī al-Shīrāzī al-muʻallim. The manuscript was a gift of Harvey Cushing (1869-1939), a Yale-educated neurosurgeon, whose collection of rare medical books forms a key part of the Medical Historical Library in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University
Alternative Title:
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. 1645 Selections. 880-02 and قانون في الطب. 1645 مختارات. 240-02/r
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In Arabic., Incipit: "al-Fann al-ḥādī ʻashar min al-kitāb al-thālith min al-Qānūn fī aḥwāl al-qalb wa-huwa maqālatān: al-Maqālah al-ūlá minhumā fī mabādī wa-uṣūl li-dhālika tashrīḥ al-qalb. Ammā al-qalb fa-innahu makhlūq min laḥm qawī li-yakūna abʻada min al-āfāt muntasij fīhi min aṣnāf al-līf qawīyah shadīdah al-ikhtilāf al-ṭawīl al-jadhdhāb wa-al-ʻarīḍ al-daffāʻ wa-al-muwarrab al-māsik li-yakūna la-hu aṣnāf min al-ḥarakāt ...", 26 x 45.5 cm ; written surface: 17.5 x 32.8 cm, 21 lines per page., Islamic black leather binding., In elegant, rather large naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings and keywords in gold, some markings in red; magnificently illuminated heading to opening chapter; text within gold and blue frames; catchwords., Some collations and corrections on the margins., On leaf 1a an ownership note in the name of Muḥammad Taqī [ibn] Muḥammad Bāqir, dated 1076 H [1665/1666], Colophon at the end book 3 of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (leaf 238a): "Tamma al-kitāb al-thālith min kutub al-Qānūn al-mushtamil ʻalá al-amrāḍ al-wāqiʻah. Wa-li-wāhib al-ʻaql al-ḥamd wa-al-minnah wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Nabīyihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭāhirīn. Qad faragha yawm al-Arbiʻāʼ, panjum shahr Rabīʻ al-Awwal, sanat 155 [i.e. 1055 = 1 May 1645] ḥāmidan muṣalliyan.", Colophon at the end of book four (leaf 436a): "Tamma kitāb al-zafanah wa-huwa ākhir al-kalām min al-kitāb al-rābiʻ fī baldat Shīrāz sanat khams wa-khamsūn wa-alf bi-khaṭṭ Muḥammad Qulī al-Shīrāzī al-muʻallim, ghafara Allāh dhunūbahum wa-li-jamīʻ al-muʼmīn wa-al-muʼmināt bi-Muḥammad wa-ālih.", and Colophon at the end of book five (leaf 509b): "Tamma kitāb al-aqrābādīn wa-bi-tamāmihi tammat al-kutub al-khamsah al-mushtamilah ʻalá al-Qānūn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ḥaqqa ḥamdihi ḥamdan kathīran dāyiman. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá khayr khalqihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi ajmaʻīn."
"al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah", a textbook of miscellaneous vocabularies and glossaries in Arabic with their corresponding equivalents in Ottoman Turkish, written for the benefit of a certain "Aḥmad", the son of a high ranking, unnamed dignitary, by Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ (Molla Sâlih, Mullā Ṣāliḥ, Mawlānā ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ), referred to as Shaykh al-Arwām, who was teaching at the Eşrefiyye medrese (al-Madrasah al-Ashrafīyah) in Cairo, and was alive in the year 1029 of the Hijrah (1619/1620). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 17th century
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In Arabic and Ottoman Turkish., Name of the author: "Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ" from folio 2a., Title from (folio 3a): "... wa-tarjamtuhā bi-al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī sharrafa al-insān wa-zayyanahu bi-al-nuṭq wa-al-lisān, wa-karramahu ʻalá sāʼir al-makhlūqāt, wa-faḍḍala man shāʼa min ʻibādihi bi-al-faṣāḥah wa-al-ihtidāʼ ilá tamyyuz al-lughāt. Wa-ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Allāh waḥdahu lā sharīka la-hu, shahādatan tuḥaqqiqu li-qāʼilihā al-tamassuk bi-al-awāmir, wa-al-ijtināb ʻan al-manhīyāt. Wa-ashhadu anna Sayyidanā wa-Nabīyanā Muḥammad al-mabʻūth ilá sāʼir al-umam, Sayyid al-ʻUrb wa-al-ʻAjam, afṣaḥ man naṭaqa bi-al-Ḍād ...", Secundo folio: bi-ḥurūf al-suyūf min kalimāt al-bāṭil., 14 x 21 cm; written surface: 10 x 16 cm; 15 lines per page., Binding: In dark brown leather; cover tooled with broad golden frame., The translation of this work into modern Turkish "Eş-şüzûr-üz-zehebiyye vel-kıtaiʼl-Ahmediyye fil-lûgat-it-Türkiyye", was published in Istanbul, in 1949., The name of the author and the title of the work is mentioned in Brockelmann (S II:632:13)., On folios 48b and 50a: Texts in Ottoman Turkish in a different hand., Folio 49 is blank., In beautiful and large naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; the Ottoman Turkish terms are written beneath the Arabic terms in red; catchword., Colophon (folio 48a): "Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdah. Tammat wa-bi-al-khayr kamulat.", and Translation of the colophon: "Praise be to God alone. It is completed and well concluded."