Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldThis is a comprehensive general medical encyclopaedia writen by the Damascene physician Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 687AH/1288 CE). Although it was projected by the author to encompass three hundred volumes when completed with each volume consisting of approximately ninety-five leaves, according to the biographical sources, only eighty of the volumes were competed, of which only fragments survive.The colophon tells us that the copy was completed 11 Rabī’ I 687 AH 15 Apr. 1288 CE by ’Alī ibn Ibrahīm known as al-Ra’īm, in the same year in which the author died on 21 Dhū al-Qa’dah 687AH 17 Dec. 1288 CE.