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1 copy of Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna

Author: Avicenna, d. 980-1037 ابو على الحسين ابن عبد الله ابن سينا
Title: Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb
Title: كتاب القانون في الطبّ

The first book of Avicenna's Canon.

Incipit: (basmala) Fol. 2b.1 بسم اللّه الرحمن الرحيم
Incipit: (tahmid) Fol. 2b.2 الحمد للّه حمدًا يَسْتَحِقُّهُ بعُلوو شانه وسبوغ احسانهِ وصلوته على نبيه محمد المصطفى و^اله
Incipit: Fol. 2b.3 بسم اللّه الرحمن الرحيم وبعدُ فقد التمس منى بعضُ خُلِّصَ اخوانى ومَن يُلزمنى اسْعافه فيما يَسْمَحُ به وسَّعِى ان ُصنّف فى الطبّ كتابًا مشتملًا على قوانينه
Explicit: Fol. 177a.7 وليكن هذا القدر من كلامنا المختصر فى الاصول الكلية لصناعة الطب كافيا ولنأخذ فى تصنيف كتابنا فى الادوية المفردة مستعنين باللّه العلى الكبير
Colophon: تم الكتاب الاول من قانون فى الطب والحمد للّه العظيم واصصلوة على رسوله محمد و^اله واصحابه اجمعين كتبه العبد خدا بخش فى سنه ١١٥٧ هجرى مقدس ه
Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Oriental paper in a variety of colours: biscuit, pink, beige, green and grey.
Extent: 179 ff. (01+177+001)
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 157 mm.
Dimensions (written): 200 × 95 mm.
Foliation: in Arabic until fol. 153. Catchwords are written underneath the text-block.

Collation

Due to the binding, collation could not be established exactly.

Layout

10

Hand(s)

Script:taʿlīq

Scribe: العبد خدا بخش ( al-ʿAbd Khudā Bakhsh )

Ink: Black; headings and dividers are highlighted in red.

500 1:1,5 85 40

Decoration

Rubrication throughout the text.

Additions:
  • Fol. 1a: contains binder's mark (القانون فى الطب قلمى سنه ١١٥٧ هجره).
  • Fols. A1 and B1, 2a contain owners' and readers' notes in Persian.
  • Fol. 2a: a note has been erased.
  • Fols. 22-23 contain diagrams and drawings.
  • Front cover: a tag has been pasted, reading: 'Qānūn-i Shaikh. Kulliyāt'; cf. similar hand on the tag on the cover of the WMS Arabic 133.
  • Fols. 2b - 176b are heavily annotated and also contain references to the contents and corrections. Occasional interlinear translations of Arabic words into Persian are also present.
  • Fols. 98- 99 were added later, since they do not have running numbers. They comprise a note on music, possibly taken from Avicenna's Kitāb al-Shifā'. Incipit (fol. 99a.1): قال فى الشفاء الموسيقى علم رياضى يبحث فيه من احوال الڻغم .Explicit (fol. 99a. 6-7): ونقول ان النبض اما ان يكون جيد الوزن الى قوله يدل على تغير حال عظيم ١٣ حكيم على Ullmann Medizin p. 152.

Binding

Cardbaord 279 × 155 mm.

History

Origin: 1157 AH

Provenance and Acquisition

Copied in India (judging from the paper and style of the handwriting).

Wellcome Library accession number: 66818

Bibliography

    Iskandar Catalogue p. 159 - 160 (Shelf-mark: WMS Or. 49).

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