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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Medicine, Medieval

11. Or 2601, ff 39r-78v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2601, ff 39r-78v
Title:
al-Irshād li-maṣāliḥ al-anfus wa-al-ajsād الإرشاد لمصالح الأنفس والأجساد Ibn Jumayʿ, Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn ابن جميع، هبة الله بن زين
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a general guide to medicine by al-Muwaffiq Shams al-Riyāsah abū al-‘Ashā’ir Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn (الموفق شمس الرياسة أبو العشائر هبة الله بن زين; d. 1198) known as Ibn Jumay‘ (ابن جميع), personal physician to the sultan of Egypt and Syria Saladin (صلاح الدين الأيوبي; d. 1193). The w...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Ff. 39r-78v

12. Or 2784

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2784
Title:
Kitāb na‘t al-ḥayawān كتاب نعت الحيوان
Scope & Content:
Bestiary describing the characteristics and medical uses of a large number of animals. The anonymous compiler of the work (see f. 95r) claims it is based on writings by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس; d. 322 BC) and Abū Sa‘īd ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Jibrā’īl ibn ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Bakhtīshū‘ ibn Jibrā’īl ibn Bakh...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+258+iii

13. Or 3645

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 3645
Title:
al-Mughnī fī tadbīr al-amrāḍ wa-maʿrifat al-ʿilal wa-al-aʿrāḍ المغني في تدبير الأمراض ومعرفة العلل والأعراض Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين
Scope & Content:
Concise handbook of medicine by Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (أبو الحسن سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين; d. 1101), personal physician to the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī (المقتدي, reg. 1075-94) to whom this work is dedicated (f. 4v, line 7). The title of the text is often abbreviated...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+104+i

14. 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

15. 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

16. Or 5596

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5596
Title:
Sharḥ Kitāb al-Qānūn lil-Qurashī شرح كتاب القانون للقرشي Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم
Scope & Content:
Commentary by ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī, known as Ibn al-Nafīs (1210 or 1211-1288), on Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā's) Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb). The volume contains the last page of Ibn al-Nafīs' commentary on Book 2 (on materia medica) and the commentary on Book 3 (on ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
902
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+92+i

17. 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

18. Or 5725

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5725
Title:
al-Masā’il fī al-ṭibb lil-muta‘allimīn المسائل في الطب للمتعلّمين Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī حنين بن إسحق العبادي
Scope & Content:
An introduction to medicine for students in the form of questions and answers divided into ten chapters (فصول) by the famous physician and translator Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (أبو زيد حنين بن إسحق العبادي, d. 873). The work is based on the Ars medica (Τέχνη ἰατρική) by Galen of Pergam...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
656
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+100+i

19. Or 5856

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5856
Title:
Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn تذكرة الكحّالين Kaḥḥāl, ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá كحّال، علي بن عيسى
Scope & Content:
A treatise on diseases of the eye by ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá al-Kaḥḥāl (علي بن عيسى الكحّال; fl. first half of 11th century), the leading oculist of his time at the Abbasid capital, Baghdad. The text is divided into three books (مقالات): المقالة الأولى (‘Book 1’; ff. 3v-16r); المقالة الثاني أذكر فيها أ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
690
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+162+i

20. 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

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