Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS Arabic 476 (Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust)

Manuscripts in Arabic

Contents

1 copy of Qānūnchah fī al-ṭibb by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jaghmīnī

This is an abridgement of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb القانون في الطب of Avicenna, 980-1037 ابن سينا.

Incipit: (basmala) Fol. 1b بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Incipit: (tahmid) Fol. 1b.2 الحمد للّه رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير حلقه محمد واله اجمعين
Incipit: Fol. 1b.3 وبعد فهذه مختصر يشتمل على زبده ما يجب استحصاره من صناعة الطب استنخبته من كتب المتقدمين ورتبته على عشرة مقالات
Explicit: Fol. 28a.21 والاشيا المتخذة من المياه المعصره كالحصرم والرمان والسماق والتفاح وقوتها مثل قوة عصارتها واما الحلواء العسلى يعين على الهضم والعڻى (sic! cf. WMS Arabic 427.) علڻط ڻولد السدد تمت
Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Oriental, glossy (fols. 1-28); European (fols. 29-36).
Extent: 36 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 145 × 105 mm.
Dimensions (written): 105 × 60 mm.
Foliation: in Arabic numerals (pencil); Catchwords are written underneath the text block.

Collation

1 (24) , 2 (18) ( (2) + (16) )

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʿlīq

Ink: Black; occasional words highlighted in red

370 1:2,5 85 60

Decoration

Rubrication

Additions:
  • Notes in the margins: fols. 1b, 2a - 3b, 4b - 9a, 10ab, 17a - 18a.
  • Fols. 8ab, 29a - 36a: Additions and commentaries on the 7th faṣl of the second maqālah.
  • Fols. 1a, 28b, 36b: blank.

History

Origin: 19th century CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Known owners: Sāmī Ibrāhīm Ḥaddād (1986).

Sotheby's lot 524 (22/21.11.85)

Bibliography

    Ḥaddād/Biesterfeld no. 50 (Shelf-mark: 510/618 Čq / / n.34).

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