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:
text
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
Description:
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."
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Selections 880-02, Qānūn fī ḥadd al-ṭibb, قانون في الطب. مختارات 240-02/(3/r, and قانون في حد الطب
Description:
Covers book 1 and 2 only. Book 2 misbound before book 1 (121, 121 leaves). Copied in various naskh hands. The date probably 1226 H/1811 M. The written surface measures 13.5x21 cm. Some marginalia. Contains dozen or so crude drawings in the margin. The paper is light brown and glazed. Some loss of text. The leather binding had no flap., Manuscript., Arabic., and Gift of Harvey Cushing. Purchased from Dr. Saʻīd Kurdustānī.
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.
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13.
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
13
Abstract:
Commentary on the author's own al-Risālah al-zawrāʾ (a Sufi tract). and Copied about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525).
Description:
Hasty nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 14 of 15 titles bound together., Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund., Sparse marginalia., and Title supplied by a modern hand in laid-in slip.
Subject (Name):
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13. Risālah al-zawrāʾ. and Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad,--1426 or 7-1512 or 13.--Risālah al-zawrāʾ.
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13.
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
5
Abstract:
Copied in Constantinople about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525)., Essay in praise of the reed pen., and Preceded by 1 page of notes.
Alternative Title:
Risālat al-yarāʻah.
Description:
Alternate title: Risālat al-yarāʻah., Hasty nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 13 of 15 titles bound together., and Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund.
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, d. 1355?
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
3
Abstract:
Copied about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525). and Tract on the expression of ideas.
Description:
Fair nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 9 of 15 titles bound together., and Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund.
Commentary on al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah (on the expression of ideas) of ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī. and Copied about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525).
Description:
Fair nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 8 of 15 titles bound together., Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund., and The ḥamdalah is the same as in Berlin catalog 5311 (7) (variant form of al-Qūshjī's commentary) but the incipit is different.
Subject (Name):
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, d. 1355? Risālah al-waḍʻīyah. and Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad,--d. 1355?--Risālah al-waḍʻīyah.
"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
Description:
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."