MS Arabic 473 (Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust)

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Fragments of Avicenna's al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb

Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 ابو على الحسين ابن عبد الله ابن سينا
Title: Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb
Title: كتاب القانون في الطبّ
Incipit: (beginning) Fol. 1a.1 كان كثيرا بالقياس الي الثقبه يسد جميع الثقبه فلا تري العين شيا وربما
Explicit: (ending) Fol. 7b.21 الحشكر يشبه ثم حعل فيها ينبت اللحم وڻحب ڻالحمله ان لا تحبس

Parts of Avicenna's Canon regarding ophthalmology and otolaryngology. The fragment contains the 4th maqālah of the 3rd fann of the 3rd book and the beginning of the 4th fann of the 3rd book الفن الرابع في احوال الاذن which correspond to the Bulāq edition vol. 2., p. 145.32.

Language(s): Arabic

References

Ullmann Medizin, p. 152.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 7 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 170 × 115 mm.

Collation

Not possible to identify quires.

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Naskh, occasionally vocalized

Ink: Brown

570 1:1,2 70 20

Additions:
  • Chapter titles are occasionally repeated by another hand in the margins and highlighted in red in the main text.
  • Fol. 6b contains a marginal note by a different hand marking a passage in the MS, which is not available in the Bulāq printed edition of the work.

History

Origin: 15th century CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Known owners: Sāmī Ibrāhīm Ḥaddād (1986).

Sotheby's lot 523 (22/21.11.85)

Bibliography

    Ḥaddād/Biesterfeld no. 24 (Shelf-mark: 510/428 Sql / … /66a).

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