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Add MS 7556, ff 34v-81r
- Record Id:
- 040-003791122
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003464759
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100116180955.0x000001
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- Add MS 7556, ff 34v-81r
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Urjūzat al-kubrá fī al-ṭibb أرجوزة الكبرى في الطب
Avicenna ابن سينا
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Didactic poem (أرجوزة) on medicine by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The poem is a versification of the author's own Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب).
Contents:
- [Part 1 of the poem: On theoretical medicine] ([الجزء الأول من الأرجوزة في العلم من الطب], ff. 34v-60v);
- Part 2 of the poem: On practical medicine (الجزء الثاني من الأرجوزة في العمل من الطب, ff. 60v-81r).
Begins (f. 34v, lines 3-5):
الحمد لله المليك الواحد رب السموات العلي الماجد
سبحانه منفرد بالقدم بالفضل قد أوجدنا من عدم
خالقنا في أحسن التقويم مرشدنا لرتبة التعليم
Ends (f. 81r, lines 6-8):
أولها العمي وضعف البصر كذا الخيالات العشا كالجهر
بغض الشعاع والقمور والحول بوالتين سل عين يهزل
برص عين اسمه بالزرقة وخفش وبالجحوظ تمت
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003464759
040-003791122 - Is part of:
- Add MS 7556 : Twelve didactic poems on various sciences
Add MS 7556, ff 34v-81r : Urjūzat al-kubrá fī al-ṭibb أرجوزة الكبرى في الطبAvicenna ابن سينا - Hierarchy:
- 032-003464759[0003]/040-003791122
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Ff. 34v-81r
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), item 893, p. 408
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Editions:
- Avicenne, Poème de la médecine, edited by Jahier, Henri and Abdelkader Noureddine (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1956)
- al-Bābā, Muḥammad Zuhayr, Min muʼallafāt Ibn Sīnā al-ṭibbīyah (Aleppo: Maʻhad al-Turāth al-ʻIlmī al-ʻArabī, 1404/1984), pp. 89-194
French translation:
- Avicenne, Poème de la médecine, edited by Jahier, Henri and Abdelkader Noureddine (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1956)
Studies:
- Gutas, Dimitri, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition. Introduction to Reading Avicenna’s Philosophical Works, 2nd ed., including an Inventory of Avicenna’s Authentic Works (Leiden, Boston: 2014), p. 521
- Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 317, p. 128, item ME2
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 154-55
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Avicenna, Persian polymath, 980-1037,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121430876,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89770781 - Subjects:
- Medicine--Early works to 1800