• كتاب القانون [في] علم الطب.
  • Kitāb al-qānūn [fī] ʻilm al-ṭibb.

Language:
  • Arabic
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 554H
Extent:
  • 2 volumes (231, 237 leaves) : paper ; 235-248 x 172-185 (192 x 120-130) mm bound to 233-248 x 172-183 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from volume 3, title page (fol. 1a).
  • Marginal notes and glosses. Obscured and missing text on title pages including one inscription on volume 3 dated 1019 H.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. 231 + i + 237 + i ; volume 3 foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 17-19 lines per page.
  • Description: Ruricated ; some vowel signs ; MS in good condition except several folios are worm-eaten and mended and the first two folios in both volumes are defective;
  • Origin: [Volume 3] Probably copied in the second half of the sixth Muslim century -- [Volume 4] Copied 596 in Baghdād (Madīnat al-Salam al-maḥrūsah) by Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Jaysh ibn Abī al-Faraj al-Qāriʼ al-Wāsiṭī (vol. 4, fol. 236b)
  • Incipit: [الجزء 3] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم المقالة الاولى في کليات امراض الرأس والدماع فصل في منفعه الراس واجزايه -- [الجزء 4] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اللهم يسر واعن المقالة الاولى في الفن الاول من الکتاب الرابع من كتاب القانون كلام كلى في الحميات
  • Colophon: [ الجزء 3] تم الجزء الاول من الکتاب الثالث من القانون يتلوه في الجزء الثاني امراض الصدر وما ... وهو الجزء الثالث من التجزئة -- [الجزء 4] کتبه الفقير الى رحمة الله تعالى ابو الفرج محمد بن جيش بن ابي الفرج القارئ الواسطي بمدينة السلام المحروسة محرم سنة ست وتسعين وخمسمائة والحمد لله وحده اللهم صل على سيدنا محمد النبي وسلم
Subject:
  • Medicine, Arab
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Blind tooled bindings
  • Autographs
  • Leather doublures
Date:
  • 1100-1199
Author:
  • Avicenna, 980-1037
Abstract:
  • An immense encyclopedia of medicine, a codification of the whole of ancient and Muslim knowledge. These two volumes cover the first division of the third book dealing with the diseases of the head and throat. (Corresponds to part I, pp. 281-385 of the Roman edition.), and the first section of the fourth part dealing with the various kinds of fevers, skin and joint diseases and wounds. (Corresponds to part II, pp. 1-119 of the Roman edition.).
Creator:
  • Avicenna, 980-1037
  • ابن سينا، 980-1037
Contributor:
  • واسطي، محمد بن جيش، active 12th century
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 554H
Scribe:
  • Wāsiṭī, Muḥammad ibn Jaysh, active 12th century
Collections:
  • Middle East Manuscripts
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Edm rights:
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dcjs956s851
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Alternative:
  • Juzʼ al-sādis min ajzāʼ kutub al-qānūn fī al-ṭibb
  • جزء السادس من اجزاء كتب القانون في الطب
  • Thālith fī al-qānūn
  • ثالث في القانون
  • Sādis min al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb
  • سادس من القانون في الطب
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
References:
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1079, 1080.
  • Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, p. 273.
  • Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 496/7.
  • Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 448
Binding note:
  • Volume 3: Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and purple paper with block-pressed design. Purple paper pastedowns. Volume 4: Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging. Brown leather doublures. Flap is missing.
Provenance:
  • Volume 3 has obscured ownership signature of Barakah ibnat ʻAlī (fol. 231b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Location:
  • Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 554H
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