Arabic MS 300 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
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Summary of Contents: First volume of Avicenna's (aka Ibn Sīna) the Canon of Medicine. It contains the First Book (Kitāb). Not dated, but based on the script is was copied in India around 1750.Language(s): Arabic
Title: Kitāb al-Qānūn al-ṭibbTitle: كتاب القانون في الطبLanguage(s): ArabicIt contains the First Book of the Canon.
The manuscript is not dated.
Corrections and notes in margins in Arabic and Farsi, in several hands.
For Book/Kitāb 2, see Arabic MS 301; Book 3, see Arabic MS 302; Books/Kutub 4 and 5, see Arabic MS 303.
Filiation:1b-6aTitle: Book OneTitle: ArabicComplete copy.
Divided into four fanns, subdivided into taʿlīm, jumlah and faṣl.
A comprehensive table of contents is given beginning on folios 2a to 6a.
Incipit: 1b: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله حمدا يستحق لعلو شأنه وسبوغ احسانه والصلوة على نبيه المصطفى محمد واله الطيبين واصحابه الطاهرين وبعد فقد التمس بعض خلص اخواني ومن يلمزني اسعافه فيما يسمح به وسعى ان اصنف في الطب كتابا مشتملا على قوانينه الكلية والجزئية اشتمالا يجمع الى الشرح والاختصار والايفاء لاكثر حقه من البيان الايجاز واسعفته بذلك ورايت ان الكلام ولا في الامور العامة الكلية في كلي قسمي الطب اعني القسم النظري والقسم العمليExplicit: 164b: فترك منه شيئا تحلله الحركة التشنجية لئلا يحلل من الرطوبة الغريزية فليكن هذا القدر من كلامنا المختصر في الاصول الكلية لصناعة الطب كافيا ولناخذ في تصنيف كتابنا في الادوية المفردة ط ط ط تمام شد6b-59bTitle: الفن الاول6b-8bTitle: التعلم الاول8b-9aTitle: التعلم الثاني9a-15aTitle: التعلم الثالث15a-20bTitle: التعلم الرابع20b-55aTitle: التعلم الخامس55a-59bTitle: التعلم السادس59b-112bTitle: الفن الثاني59b-64aTitle: التعلم الاول64a-87bTitle: التعلم الثاني87b-112bTitle: التعلم الثالث112b-140aTitle: الفن الثالث114a-119bTitle: التعلم الاول119b-134bTitle: التعلم الثاني134b-136aTitle: التعلم الثالث136a-137aTitle: التعلم الرابع137a-140aTitle: التعلم الخامس140a-164bTitle: الفن الرابعDivided into faṣls.
Physical Description
Form: codexSupport: PaperExtent: 164 folios (i+164+i)Dimensions (leaf): × mm.Dimensions (written): × mm.Foliation: Foliation in Eastern Arabic numerals in ink starting on the fifth leaf. Modern foliation in Western Arabic numeral in pencil starting on the first leaf. Number 39 is skipped.Collation
Catchwords inconsistently written.Condition
Minor worm and water damage, top of folios recently repaired with tape. No loss of text. Binding is fragile and is cracking in places.Layout
Uniform layout. Broad margins. Sections marked in red rubrics.
Hand(s)
Indian Naskh script of about 1750 CE.
Decoration
Additions:Note by a later hand on folio 1a which contains a brief history of medicine, mentioning Hippocrates, Galen, Hunayn ibn Isḥāq, and ‘al-šayḫ’ Ibn Sīnā. The description is said to come from a commentary on the Kullīyāt.
Binding
Western binding, rebound with leather wrapped in card, floral medallion on front and back covers
History
Origin: It was possibly produced around 18th-19th century (not after 1867) CE in ; India.Provenance and Acquisition
Previously in the collection of Colonel George William Hamilton (1807-1868) who served in India from 1823 to 1867, latterly as Commissioner of Delhi. He acquired over a thousand Indian and Persian manuscripts, from which the British Museum selected 352, now held in the British Library; his ownership inscription on flyleaf ia: كرنيل جارج وليم هملتن صاحب بهادر and description of the contents: جلد اول قانون في الامور الكلية من علم الطب.
Formerly in the collection of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880) Crawford, Alexander Crawford Lindsay, 1812-1880.
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) Rylands, Enriqueta, 1843–1908 in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913) Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847–1913 .
Bequeathed by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1908 to The John Rylands Library.
Record Sources
Description based on A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library Manchester (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1934), revised and expanded by Kamran Karimullah and Zsófia Buda.Availability
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Bibliography
Ullmann, Manfred. Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 152-156 and 333-337.A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library Manchester (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1934), no. 323 [300].Savage-Smith, Emilie. A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford: Volume I: Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 220-242, no. 54A-M.Iskandar, Albert Zaki. A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Medical Historical Library (London: Wellcome Medical Historical Library, 1967).Pormann, Peter and Emilie Savage-Smith. Medieval Islamic Medicine (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007).Funding of Cataloguing
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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