Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 1211-1288 ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم، 1210 or 1211-1288
Published / Created:
22 Rajab, 745 H1055 H [29 November, 1344]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 23
Image Count:
222
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
al-Mūjaz fī al-ṭibb, a compendium of medicine by Ibn al-Nafīs, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī al-Mutaṭabbib (1210 or 1211-1288), an illustrious and prolific scholar of the 13th century and a prominent physician and a practical and experimental medical researcher who refused to accept the previous medical opinions of Greek and Muslim scholars (including Galen and Avicenna) without proof and to whom is attributed the discovery of the micro cardiovascular system. He was born in Damascus, Syria but lived and worked in Cairo, Egypt. He depended in his treatment of illnesses mostly on nutritious foods rather than medications. The present manuscript is an abridgement and explantion of Avicenna's al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb "Canon of medicine" (excluding the chapters on anatomy and physiology) based on his own observations and experimentations. Copied by al-Muhadhdhab al-Musayyijī on Monday 22 Rajab, 745 (29 November, 1344). Place of copying not mentioned, probably Egypt
Alternative Title:
Hādhā kitāb ʻulum al-ṭibb min jamīʻ al-aṣnāf, al-amrāḍ, al-ʻilāj ʻan al-ḥukamāʼ al-qudamāʼ and هذا كتاب علم الطب من جميع الأصناف، الأمراض، العلاج عن الحكماء القدماء
Description:
In Arabic., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Qāla al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ḥabr qudwat al-ʻulamāʼ wa-raʼīs al-fuḍalāʼ farīd dahrihi wa-waḥīd ʻaṣrihi Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī al-Mutaṭabbib qaddasa Allāh rūḥahu: qad rattabtu hādhā al-kitāb ʻalá arbaʻ funūn. al-Fann al-awwal fī qawāʻid juzʼay al-ṭibb, aʻnī ʻilmahu wa-ʻamalah bi-qawl kullī ...", 13 x 24.5 cm ; written surface: 8.5 x 18.5 cm, 25 lines per page, In loose dark brown leather binding; a substitute cover., In good naskhī script; in black ink, on yellowish paper, with headings and keywords in red; catchwords., Some collations and commentaries on the margins., On leaf 1a an ownership note in the name of Anṭūn walad Jirjis., and Colophon: "Tamma al-kitāb bi-ḥamd Allāh wa-mannih. ʻAllaqahu li-nafsih wa-li-man shāʼa Allāh baʻdah al-ʻabd al-faqīr ilá raḥmat Allāh wa-ruḍwānih al-Muhadhdhab al-Musayyijī ʻafā Allāh ʻanhu wa-raḥima man naẓara fīhi wa-ṣafaḥa ʻan zalalih wa-daʻā la-hu bi-al-maghfirah. Āmīn. Waqaʻa al-taḥrīr min taʻlīqihi yawm al-Ithnayn, thānī ʻishrīn shahr Rajab al-mubārak sanat 745 [Monday, 29 November, 1344]. Balagha muqābalatan wa-taṣḥīḥan"
Subject (Name):
Avicenna, 980-1037. and Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 1211-1288.
