Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

ms. 44492 (SOAS Library, School of Oriental and African Studies)

Special Collections

Contents

2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Medicine and Materia medica

1.

An abridgement of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb القانون في الطب of Avicenna, 980-1037 ابن سينا in 10 maqalat

Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اما بعد فهذا مختصر مشتمل على زبدة ما يجب استحضاره من صناعة الطب انتخبته من كتب المتقدمين والمتاخرين ورتبته على عشر ... مقالات المقالة الاولى فى الامور الطبية
Colophon: تمام شد نسخه قانونچه فی سنه 1258

Language(s): Arabic

References

2.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم...و بعد این مختصریست در اموریکه به پنج چینی تعلق است

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
1b-37b f. 38a-53a f.
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):

Layout

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq hans

History

Origin: 1258 AH; 1843 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequest of R.C. Reid

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on Adam Gacek : Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981".

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

Subjects

  • Medicine, Arab
  • Medicine, Persian
  • Materia medica--Early works to 1800

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