al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb, [1645]
القانون في الطب، [1645]
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Description
- Title
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al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb, [1645]
القانون في الطب، [1645] - Alternative Title
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Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. 1645 Selections. 880-02
قانون في الطب. 1645 مختارات. 240-02/r - Creator
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Avicenna, 980-1037, author
ابن سينا، 980-1037 مؤلف - Contributor
- Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Qulī, active 1645, scribe.
- Published / Created
- 1055 H [1645 or 1646]
- Abstract
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al-Qanūn fī al-ṭibb, a comprehensive manuscript on Arabic medicine by al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī ibn Sīnā (980-1037), commonly known by the Latinized version of his name Avicenna who was born near Bukhara in Persia (present-day Uzbekistan). Avicenna was the most famous and influential of the many Islamic scholars, scientists, and philosophers of the medieval world. He was foremost a physician but was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, psychologist, philosopher, logician, mathematician, physicist, and poet. His al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (Canon of medicine) became the authoritative reference on medicine in the Middle Ages, not only in the Islamic world but, in Latin translations, in Europe as well. Presented in this manuscript is the second half of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (from al-fann 11 "the 11th art" of the third book to the end of the fifth book). The whereabouts of the first part of the Canon are not known.The colophons indicate that the copy was copied in 1055 H (1645/1656) in the city of Shīrāz, Iran by Muḥammad Qulī al-Shīrāzī al-muʻallim. The manuscript was a gift of Harvey Cushing (1869-1939), a Yale-educated neurosurgeon, whose collection of rare medical books forms a key part of the Medical Historical Library in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University
- Description
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In Arabic.
Incipit: "al-Fann al-ḥādī ʻashar min al-kitāb al-thālith min al-Qānūn fī aḥwāl al-qalb wa-huwa maqālatān: al-Maqālah al-ūlá minhumā fī mabādī wa-uṣūl li-dhālika tashrīḥ al-qalb. Ammā al-qalb fa-innahu makhlūq min laḥm qawī li-yakūna abʻada min al-āfāt muntasij fīhi min aṣnāf al-līf qawīyah shadīdah al-ikhtilāf al-ṭawīl al-jadhdhāb wa-al-ʻarīḍ al-daffāʻ wa-al-muwarrab al-māsik li-yakūna la-hu aṣnāf min al-ḥarakāt ..."
26 x 45.5 cm ; written surface: 17.5 x 32.8 cm, 21 lines per page.
Islamic black leather binding.
In elegant, rather large naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings and keywords in gold, some markings in red; magnificently illuminated heading to opening chapter; text within gold and blue frames; catchwords.
Some collations and corrections on the margins.
On leaf 1a an ownership note in the name of Muḥammad Taqī [ibn] Muḥammad Bāqir, dated 1076 H [1665/1666]
Colophon at the end book 3 of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (leaf 238a): "Tamma al-kitāb al-thālith min kutub al-Qānūn al-mushtamil ʻalá al-amrāḍ al-wāqiʻah. Wa-li-wāhib al-ʻaql al-ḥamd wa-al-minnah wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Nabīyihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-ṭāhirīn. Qad faragha yawm al-Arbiʻāʼ, panjum shahr Rabīʻ al-Awwal, sanat 155 [i.e. 1055 = 1 May 1645] ḥāmidan muṣalliyan."
Colophon at the end of book four (leaf 436a): "Tamma kitāb al-zafanah wa-huwa ākhir al-kalām min al-kitāb al-rābiʻ fī baldat Shīrāz sanat khams wa-khamsūn wa-alf bi-khaṭṭ Muḥammad Qulī al-Shīrāzī al-muʻallim, ghafara Allāh dhunūbahum wa-li-jamīʻ al-muʼmīn wa-al-muʼmināt bi-Muḥammad wa-ālih."
Colophon at the end of book five (leaf 509b): "Tamma kitāb al-aqrābādīn wa-bi-tamāmihi tammat al-kutub al-khamsah al-mushtamilah ʻalá al-Qānūn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ḥaqqa ḥamdihi ḥamdan kathīran dāyiman. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá khayr khalqihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi ajmaʻīn." - Provenance
- Gift of Harvey Cushing.
- Extent
- 1 46 cm volume ([509] leaves) ;
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Digitization Funding Source
- Arcadia Fund, 2013
- Language
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Arabic
Collection Information
- Repository
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Call Number
- Manuscript Arabic 6
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Arabic Iran 17th century
Arabic manuscripts - Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Name)
- Avicenna, 980-1037.
- Subject (Topic)
- Medicine, Arab
- Subjects
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Avicenna, 980-1037
Medicine, Arab
Iran > 17th century
Arabic manuscripts
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement
- Citation
- Avicenna, Qanūn fī al-ṭibb. General Collection, Medical/Historical Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11419069
- Object ID (OID)
- 10937579