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Summary of Contents: شرح الموجز في علم الطلب A Commentary on Al-Majas ft Ilmi't-Tibb, the well-known Compendium of
Avicenna's Qánún by 'Alá'u'd-Din Abu'l-IIasan Ali ibn Abi'l-IIaram (not-Hazm,
as in this MS.) al-Qarshi, commonly called Ibnu'n-Nafis (d. 687/1288 or 696/1296)
See Brockelmann, vol. 1, p. 493. This MS., bought with 46 others from the late Hájjí 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah in
January, 1920, is written in a good, clear nasta'liq with rubrications, and comprises
402 ff. of 27.2 x 16.7 c. and 23 ll. There is no date or colophon, but the date of
transcription can hardly be earlier than the sixteenth or seventeenth century.
The book is divided into four sections called Fann as follows: Fann I (f. 2). General principles and considerations. Fann II (f. 116). Drugs and diet. Fann III (f. 168) Special Pathology a capite ad calcem (f. 168). Fann IV ( 337) General Pathology. The Commentary appears to be that of Burhánu'd-Din Nafis ibn 'Awad (?) al-
Kirmani (composed at Samarqand in 841/1437), since its opening words correspond
with the MS. of that work described in vol. IV, p. 64, of the Bankipore Library by
Azimu'd-Din Abmad (Calcutta, 1910).

Author: Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 11-1288 ابن النفيس، على بن أبي الحزم علاء الدين

Title: Sharḥ al-mūjaz fī ʻilm al-ṭibb

Title: شرح الموجز في علم الطب

Language(s): Arabic

References

p.169

Selections from al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb القانون في الطب of Avicenna, 980-1037 ابن سينا .

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 402

Dimensions: 27.2 × 16.7 cm.

Layout

23 lines

Hand(s)

Written in a good, clear nasta'liq with rubrications.

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

This MS., bought with 46 others from the late Hájjí 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah in January, 1920.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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