Mūjiz al-Qānūn

Title:

Mūjiz al-Qānūn

Alternative title:

Matn Mūjiz min al-ṭibb

Creator:

Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 1211-1288

Date:

1393

Description:

Abstract: "Compendium of medicineAbstract: being an abridgment of Ibn Sīnā's Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. The text proper ends on fol. 178bAbstract: and is followed on fol. 179b-180a by an ijāzah for the copyist from Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Qarāḥisārī(?)Abstract: dated end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 796 March 1394Abstract: and on fol. 180b-187bAbstract: by several short texts and inscriptions by various handsAbstract: some in Ottoman TurkishAbstract: including recipes of medication. Short texts and inscriptions on fol. 1a-3a."Binding note: Painted paper with arabesques of a floral pattern in black and orange on dark turquoise ground pasted on paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Red leather spine and fore-edge flap. Paper pastedowns. Slipcase in red leather and the same decorated paper, with title on a label pasted on the fore-edge flap.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on the upper margin of fol. 3b. The title appears on a label pasted on the fore-edge flap of the slipcase as "Matn Mūjiz min al-ṭibb".Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام الحبر قدوة العلاما ورئيس الحكماء فريد دهره ووحيد عصره ابو الحسين علاء الدين علي ابن ابى الحسن القرشى المتطبّب قدس الله روحه وبعد فقد رتّبت هذا الكتاب علي اربعة فنون الفن الاول فى قواعد جزءى الطب اعنى علمية وعملية بقول كلىExplicit: وكان تدبيرهم واحدا و استعملوا دواء جالينوس وغيره من العلاج المذكور تم الكتابPhysical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for the basmalah, headings and overlining. Soft dark cream paper with laid and chain lines and pulp visible. Fol. 1-2 and 186-187 are later additions, with inscriptions. Marginal annotations. Topics written vertically in red on the margins.Collation: Paper, fol. 187 ; 1⁸ (-2 at the beginning of the quire ; + 2 later added leaves, European paper, fol. 1-2) 2-22⁸ 23⁸ (+1 ; +2 later added leaves, European paper).Origin: Copy completed at the end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 795 March 1393 by Masʻūd ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī (colophon, fol. 178b).

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Slipcases
Sources

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Avicenna, 980-1037—Qānūn fī al-ṭibb

Provenance:

Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Extent:

187 leaves: paper ; 170 x 85 (112 x 50) mm. bound to 170 x 90 mm.

Publisher:

1393

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 558H
Electronic Resource
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Replaces: pudl0032/558h

Is part of:

Robert Garrett
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

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