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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Medicine, Persian Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Arundel Or 10

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 10
Title:
Medical compendium
Scope & Content:
Manuscript completed by an anonymous scribe on 3 Dhū al-Ḥijja 712/4 April 1313 in part in Aleppo (see colophon to Item 1; f. 9v, lines 5-7). The final colophon in the manuscript is dated late Sha‘bān 711/early January 1312, which perhaps indicates that the manuscript is bound out of its original...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
711-712
Extent:
Codex; ff. iv+174+iii

2. Arundel Or 41

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel Or 41
Title:
Firdaws al-ḥikmah فردوس الحكمة Ṭabarī, ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban طبري، علي بن سهل ربن
Scope & Content:
Encyclopedia of medicine by the Persian physician ʿAlī ibn Sahl ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī (810- c 855). This undated copy was produced by a maghribī scribe, probably in the late 13th century as suggested by Hebrew and Arabic ownership inscriptions (f. 2r) dateable to early fourteenth-century Georgia ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+276+ii

3. Or 2600

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2600
Title:
Kitāb al-ghādhī wa-al-mughtadhī كتاب الغاذي والمغتذي Ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن أبي الأشعث، أحمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on dietetics and the nourishment of the parts of the body by Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath (أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي الأشعث; d. 360/970). The text is in two parts (مقالتان), divided into chapters (جمل), and further subdivided into sections (أبواب). This copy is m...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Dhū al-Qa‘dah 348
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+17+xxxiv

4. Or 5033

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5033
Title:
al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb القانون في الطبّ Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
The Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, Latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037). This complete copy of one of the most influential Arabic medical texts is richly illuminated, decorated and bound in Safavid ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
4 Shawwāl 1069
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+645+i

5. Or 5316

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5316
Title:
al-Kitāb al-Manṣūrī الكتاب المنصوري Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
Scope & Content:
Influential compendium of medicine written in 903 by the physician and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925) and dedicated to the Governor of Rayy, Abū Ṣāliḥ Manṣūr ibn Isḥāq (أبو صالح منصور بن إسحق; see fol. 1v, line 3, transcribed below). ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1000
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+191+ii

6. Or 5659

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5659
Title:
al-Mūjiz fī ʿilm al-ṭibb الموجز في علم الطب Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم
Scope & Content:
Epitome by ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī, known as Ibn al-Nafīs (علاء الدين علي بن أبي الحزم القرشي المشهور بابن النفيس; 1210 or 1211-1288) of Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā, ابن سينا; d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب). This epitome is often known simply as the Mūjiz al-Qānūn (مو...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
6 Rabī‘a I 786
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+179+i

7. Or 6492

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6492
Title:
Sharḥ Mūjiz al-Qānūn شرح موجز القانون Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd كازروني، محمد بن مسعود
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Sadīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mas‘ūd al-Kāzarūnī (سديد الدين محمد بن مسعود الكازروني; d. 1357) on Ibn al-Nafīs' (ابن النفيس; d. 1288) Mūjiz al-Qānūn (موجز القانون), an epitome of Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā, ابن سينا; d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ). The commentary deals with se...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
22 Ramaḍān 770
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+151+i