Physical description: Material: PaperDimensions: 295 x 212 mm leaf [198 x 127 mm written]Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic pagination in red inkRuling: Misṭarah; 19 lines per page; vertical spacing 10 lines per 10 cm; the written area is enclosed by a frame of double lines in red inkScript: NaskhInk: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red; text frame in red inkBinding: British Museum binding in dark brown leatherCondition: Excellent conditionMarginalia: None
Abstract: Abu Ali al-Husayn Ibn Sina (980–1037) was one of the intellectual luminaries of the medieval world. Known in the Latin West as Avicenna, this Persian polymath was often referred to by Muslim authors as al-Shaykh al-Ra'īs, in acknowledgement of his role as one of the foremost savants of the Islamic world. A prolific author, Ibn Sina wrote on topics as varied as metaphysics, theology, medicine, psychology, earth sciences, physics, astronomy, astrology, and chemistry. His fame in Europe rests principally on his Canon of Medicine, which was translated into Latin and remained part of the standard curriculum for medical students for centuries. It was due to the reputation of this work, as well as of two of his other works that were translated into Latin, al-Adwīya al-qalbīya (Cardiac medication) and al-Urjūza fī al-ṭibb (a versified manual on medicine), that Ibn Sina sometimes was referred to in the Latin West as princeps medicorum (prince of physicians). Presented here is a manuscript copy of the fifth book of Avicenna's Canon. The title al-Maqālah al-ʻilmīyah fī al-ḥājah ilā al-adwīyah al-murakkabah (The scientific essay on the need for compound remedies) is used as a heading for a section of the Canon by the author himself. The current book is organized into sections dealing with primary organs or medical conditions. Each section is subdivided into topics, such as symptoms, treatments, prescriptions for nutrition, and recipes for medicinal compounds. The section on the kidney, for example, includes subsections on the anatomy of the kidney, on various indicators of the status of the kidney, and a list of ailments, such as “hotness,” ”coldness,” or ”weakness” in the kidney, and remedies for them. The present manuscript appears to have been part of a larger book, the first 300 pages or so of which have been removed. The first page of text includes a blank field that presumably was meant for a frontispiece that was never completed. There are 35 lines per page. The text is in black ink, with headings in red ink (frequently repeated in the margins).Physical description: 306 leaves (35 lines) ; 23 x 14 centimeters
In this manuscript, medical illustrations have been painted over the text of al-I’rab ’an qawā’id al-i’rab by Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Hishām (b. 708/1310, d. 761/1360), a Cairene grammarian. The treatise is an introduction to the study of the Arabic sentence.Medical illustration : a female figure with gravid uterus. The illustration is a 20th century over-painting over a page of grammatical text.49G: medicine, medical science
Abstract: A short treatise proving the orthodoxy of some of the Zaydite religious and ceremonial practices. With medical, hadith, and poetry extracts.Binding note: Leather spine, covers missing; in paper folder.Contents: 1. fol. 1a: Poem.Contents: 2. fol. 1b-6b: al-Masāʼil al-marḍīyah fī bayān ittifāq Ahl al-Sunnah ʻalá sunan al-ṣalāh wa-al-Zaydīyah.Contents: 3. fol. 6b: Quotations concerning rizq.Contents: 4. fol. 7a: Extract from a medical text. Begins with "Faṣl fī adwiyah."Contents: 5. fol. 7b: Naẓm buzūgh al-hilāl fī al-khiṣāl al-mūjibah lil-ḍilāl / lil-Imām ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī.Contents: 6. fol. 7b-8b: Hadiths.Contents: 7. fol. 8b: Poems.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Physical description: 27 lines per page; written in naskhi in black on beige European glazed, laid paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Fol. 7-8 on different paper.Origin: Copy completed 16 Ṣafar 1219 H. 27 May 1804 (fol. 6b).Beg.: ... بسم الله ... اما بعد فالمطلوب من افادة مولاناColophon: انتهى زبرهذه النبذة المفىدة المشتملة على الثمان المسائل المجىدة وجواباتها المبرهنة بالبراهىن الحمىدة بعد عصر ىوم الجمعة 16 شهر صفر الخىر عام 1219 والحمد لله رب العالمىن وحسبي الله وکفى وصلى الله على محمد وآله وسلم