MS Arabic 416 (Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust)

Manuscripts in Arabic

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1 copy of al-Urjūzah fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna

Author: Avicenna,‏ ‎d. 980-1037‏ ابن سينا، ابو علي الحسين‏

Title: al-Urjūzah fī al-ṭibb

Title: الأرجوزة في الطبّ 1a.1

An abridgement of Avicenna's Canon in verse (rajaz).

Incipit: (basmala) Fol.1b.1 بسم اللّه الرحمن الرحيمو به الامانه

Incipit: Fol.1b.2 الطب خفظ صحةٍ برو مرض ٭٭ من سبب في بدن منه عرض

Explicit: Fol. 40b.8 وقد فرغت من جميع العمل ٭ والآن اقطعه بقول مكمل

Colophon: تمت الارجوزه بحمد الله تعالي وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد للّه وحده وصلى اللّه على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا تم

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Burnished; watermark present.

Extent: 40 + 001 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 208 × 138 mm.

Dimensions (written): 148 × 75 mm.

Foliation: European, pencil, written underneath the text block.

Collation

Due to the binding collation could not be established exactly.

Lack of visibility to distinguish between the gatherings.

Condition

Deteriorated

Layout

8mm 1b-40a

Hand(s)

Script: Naskh

Ink: black, headings and dividers are highlighted in red.

270 1:1 100 20 19

Decoration

Rubrication

Additions:

Binding: Modern, European type. Leather spine with title of the book, the name of the author, and name of last owner (Sāmī Ḥaddād) tooled in gold.
Paper: Oriental

Binding

220mm × 152mm mm. leather / cloth covers. Endbands with blue stripes; Stuck on cloth endbands.

Seal(s):

Accompanying Material

1. Fol. 1a - a title (written by the hand of Maḥmūd b. Sulaymān.)2. Owner's notice and seal: فى ملك الفقير الله تعالى محمود خليفه باب كوكللومان ابن سليمان بن عبد الرحمن ابن مصطفى افندى عفى عنه. Owner's notice. Fol. 001a. A recipe (written by the hand of Maḥmūd b. Sulaymān) of remedies against hemiplegia, spasms, head-ache and diseases caused by phlegm. 4. Seal of Libraire al-Arab (47 rue Fajjāla, Cairo).5. Fols 20a, 31a, 34b, 36b, 37b, 40a corrections written in pencil by a recent hand.

History

Origin: 16th century AD

Provenance and Acquisition

Known owners: 1. Maḥmūd b. Sulaymān; 2. ʿAlī al-Tarjumān; Bookshop 'Libraire al-Arab'; 3. Sāmī Ibrāhīm Ḥaddād (1986).

Sotheby's lot 473 (22/21.11.85)

Bibliography

Ḥaddād/Biesterfeld no. 27 (Shelf-mark: 510/428 Su3 / … /69).

Subjects

Medicine, Arab

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World