King's Pote 248(1) (King's College Library, King's College Cambridge)

Pote Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Mūjiz al-Qānūn fī ʿIlm al-Ṭibb (with commentary).

ff.3v-420r

Author: (of Qānūn) Ibn Sīnā, 980-1037 ابن سينا

Compiler: (of compendium) Ibn al-Nafīs, ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 11-1288 ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم، ت. 687 هـ

Commentator: Kāzirūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd, d. 1357 الكازروني، محمد بن مسعود، ت. 758 هـ

Title: Mūjiz al-Qānūn fī ʿIlm al-Ṭibb (with commentary)

Title: موجز القانون فى علم الطب

Language(s): Arabic

Colophon details: Date: Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1005 / Jun 1597 Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning manuscript: F.229r: an internal colophon; f.255r: an internal colophon.

Note concerning work: This commentary is likely that known as al-Mughnī.

References

Browne no. 1286

Palmer no. 248.1

Geschichte der arabischen Literatur C. Brockelmann 1892-1902 (2 vols. plus supplements) GAL I.457;GAL I.493; GAL Supp. I.825

Supplement to the catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the British Museum, C. Rieu (1894) p.546 [BL Or. 2794]

A hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, E. Browne (1900) p.227 [Camb. Dd.10.3]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Crispy thin paper, highly burnished.

Extent: 418 folios.

Dimensions (leaf): 28 × 17 cm.

Dimensions (written): 21 × 11 cm.

Foliation: Foliated.

Layout

20 lines per page.

Not ruled. Red rubrications. Catchwords.

Hand(s)

Script: Naskh. Quality: Neat. Scribe: Anonymous.

Additions:

F.1r: purchased at the end of Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1177.

Signs of collation.

Binding

Reddish brown leather, Indian style with an envelope flap. Plain leather doublures. Decorations: A painted gold ruled frame (also on the inside of the flap). Condition: Damage to the spine. The boards are detached. Dimensions: 28 × 16 × 4 cm. Unboxed. Polier's number: 604.

History

Origin: Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1005 AH; Jun 1597 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The "Pote Collection" arrived in England from India in 1790 and was divided between the Colleges of Eton and King's, Cambridge, with the first half alphabetically going to King's. Both halves of the collection are now housed in Cambridge University Library on permanent loan. Most if not all of the manuscripts had previously been owned by Colonel Antoine-Louis Henri Polier (1741–1795).

Gift of Edward Ephraim Pote (d.1832) in 1788.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. G. Browne, "A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge", Cambridge, 1922 and E. H. Palmer, "Catalogue of the oriental manuscripts in the library of King's College, Cambridge", J.R.A.S. v.3 (1867), pp.105-131 enhanced with additional descriptions and corrections by Shiva Mihan.

Availability

All manuscripts of the Pote Collection are on permanent loan at Cambridge University Library. Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card for admissions procedures consult Cambridge University Library. Contact near_eastern@lib.cam.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript

Bibliography

Work in multiple volumes bearing the class-marks: 248(1), 248(2), 248(3).

Funding of Cataloguing

King's College Cambridge

Subjects

Medicine, Arab

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