Gg.5.29 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Summary of Contents: This manuscript bearing the title al-Mughnī fī al-Ṭibābah contains a medical work written by the physician Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (d. 1101) commonly entitled al-Mughnī fī tadbīr al-amrāḍ wa-maʿrifat al-ʿilal wa-al-aʿrāḍ. The treatise, which was dedicated to the caliph al-Muqtadī (d. 1094), classifies a number of diseases according to the part of the body they affected, describing their causes, symptoms and treatments in an original three column display. The date in the colophon of the manuscript is obliterated, but several ownership statements provide a terminus ante quem in the second half of the sixth century A.H / twelfth century C.E.