MS. Huntington 602 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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6 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Medicine, Botany, and Materia medica

1. ff. 1r-32r
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: Manẓūmah fī al-ṭibb
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 457
[NAM. 333 (1)]
2. ff. 34v-47
Author: Galen
Title: al-Nabḍ al-kabīr
Title: Megapulsus

Translated by Ḥubaysh ibn al-Ḥasan al-Aʻsam al-Dimashqī 10th cent.

Extracts only from all 4 sections

Steinschn. AUG (Gr. Ârzte) §15, 11, p. 282 (334)

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 207
[NAM. 333 (2)]
3. ff. 48v-71t
Author: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 809?-873
Title: Masāʼil fī al-ṭibb lil-mutaʻallimīn ʻalá ṭarīq al-taqsīm wa-al-tashjīr
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 205
[NAM. 333 (3)]
4. f. 71v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Medical prescriptions
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Medicine
[NAM. 333 (4)]
5. ff. 72r-73r
Author: Anonymous
Title: A list of plant-names, with explanations
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Botany
[NAM. 333 (5)]
6. ff. 73v-75v
Author: Anonymous
Title: The medical properties of various plants
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Medicine
[NAM. 333 (6)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
32 ff. 14 ff. 24 ff. 1 f. 2 ff. 3 ff.

History

Origin: 1397/1401 CE 1397/1401 CE 1401 CE 1397/1401 CE 1397/1401 CE 1397/1401 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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