Books II (materia medica), III (diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries) of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. Some marginal notes, beginning in Book III, with more toward the end of the volume; 2 notes in Arabic laid in following f. 144 and f. 275; the last five leaves copied in a second hand.
Books III (al-Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah, diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (al-Amrāḍ allatī lā takhuṣṣ bi-ʻuḍwin bi-ʻaynih, diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (al-Adwiyah al-murakkabah, compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries) of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. Extensive marginal notes on the first pages of the manuscript (f. 1v-3r), with frequent brief marginal notes in the rest of the manuscript. A somewhat later table of contents, arranged in a grid, has been added at the front of the volume (f. iii recto-xvii recto).
Sections from Books III (al-Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah, diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (al-Amrāḍ allatī lā takhuṣṣu ʻuḍwan bi-ʻaynih, diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (al-Adwiyah al-murakkabah, compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries) of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. Many marginal notes trimmed; some later marginal notes run from the manuscript leaves onto their modern paper frames.
Abstract: Collection of philosophical texts, mainly from Avicenna and al-Fārābī.Binding note: Red leather over paper pasteboards with a blind-tooled outer frame.Contents: 1. fol. 1a: Table of contents.Contents: 2. fol. 1b-2b: al-Khuṭab wa-al-taḥmīdāt / Avicenna.Contents: 3. fol 3b-12b: Risālah ilá Abī Rayḥān Muḥammad al-Bīrūnī / Avicenna.Contents: 4. fol. 13b-17a: Maqālah fī khaṭaʼ man qāla inna shayʼan huwa jawhar wa-ʻaraḍ maʻan / Avicenna.Contents: 5. fol. 17b-68a: Kitāb al-Mubāḥathāt / Avicenna.Contents: 6. fol. 68b-70Ab: Ajwibah ʻan ʻashr masāʼil / Avicenna.Contents: 7. fol. 70Ab-71a: Risālah fī al-radd ʻalá man qāla inna al-insān talāshā wa-faniya / Aflāṭūn.Contents: 8. fol. 71b-89b: Iḥṣāʼ al-ʻulūm / Fārābī.Contents: 9. fol. 90b-93a: Maqālah fī qawānīn ṣināʻat al-shuʻarāʼ / Fārābī.Contents: 10. fol. 93b-125a: al-Kitāb fī mabādiʼ ārāʼ ahl al-madīnah al-fāḍilah / Fārābī.Contents: 11. fol. 125b-130a: Tafsīr li-baʻḍ suwar kalām Allāh / Avicenna.Contents: 11a. fol. 125b-128a: Tafsīr sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ / Avicenna.Contents: 11b. fol. 128a-129b: Tafsīr sūrat al-Falaq / Avicenna.Contents: 11c. fol. 129b-130a: Tafsīr sūrat al-Nās / Avicenna.Contents: 12. fol. 130b-142a: Kitāb Taḥqīr al-ladhdhāt / Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.Contents: 13. fol. 142b-149a: Risālat al-Firdaws / Avicenna.Contents: 14. fol. 149b-156a: al-Siyāsah / Avicenna.Contents: 15. fol. 156b-158b: Risālat al-arzāq / Avicenna.Contents: 16. fol. 159a-160a: Risālah fī īḍāḥ barāhīn mustanbaṭah fī masāʼil ʻawīṣah / Avicenna.Contents: 17. fol. 160b-175b: Kitāb Mukhtaṣar Anūlūṭīqā al-ūlá / Fārābī.Contents: 18. fol. 176a-177a: Risālah fī ḥarakat al-kull / Alexander of Aphrodisias.Contents: 19. fol. 177b-266a: Taʻlīqāt / Avicenna.Contents: 20. fol. 266b-270a: Kitāb fī ibṭāl aḥkām al-nujūm / Fārābī.Contents: 21. fol. 270b-293b: Kitāb fī al-ārāʼ al-ṭabīʻīyah allatī taqūl bihā al-ḥukamāʼ / Pseudo-Plutarchus.Contents: 22. fol. 294a-295a: al-Maqālah fī al-jihah allatī yaṣiḥḥu ʻalayhā al-qawl fī aḥkām al-nujūm / Fārābī.Contents: 23. fol. 295b-305a: Risālah ilá al-Iskandar fī al-ʻālam wa-al-makhlūqāt De mundo / Pseudo-Aristotle.Contents: 24. fol. 305b-310b: Sharḥ Waṣāyā Fūthāghūras al-faylasūf.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.23 lines per page. Written by one hand in a very clear medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid (and chain?, see fol. 302) lines visible. Collation notes (collation statements, see fol. 2b, 70Ab, 125a, 130a, where it is stated that this was copied from a copy by Mawlānā Khusraw Shāhī). The copyist is commenting on his exemplar (see fol. 12b). Foliation using Arabic numerals in the middle of the upper margin. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals in the left corner of the lower margin. The quires are numbered (see fol. 16a); catchword on the verso of each leaf. Fol. 143 is a later replacement. Some leaves are mended, with the text missing often re-written on the repair. From fol. 181 on, hole in each leaf (the text missing is re-written on the repair up to fol. 269, from there on, loss of text).Copied in Shawwāl 677 according to colophons (fol. 12b and 175v).
First book of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia, comprising an introduction to general knowledge of medicine, anatomy, temperament, and the effect of environment on health and disease. Frequent marginal annotations, some affected by trimming. The first 40 leaves and the last 10 are later replacements.
Abstract: An iambic poem on the elements of medicine divided into two divisions: (1) Theory, (2) Practice. A number of sections deal with anatomy.Binding note: Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Blue paper pastedowns. Binding loose. Quires not currently sewn.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a).Title on upper edge of text block semi-illegible.Collation: Paper ; fol. 58 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 13 lines per page.Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition; first and last folios repaired.Colophon: تم الجزء والعمل بحمد الله وعونه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلمIncipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي الحمد لله قال الشيخ الرييس ابو الحسن على بن عبد الله بن سينا رحمه الله لما جرت عادة الحکما وفضلا القدما ...
Fols. 189; 22.1 x 12-12.6 cm.; written surface 17-17.5 x 8.2 cm.; 25 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi; entries in red.The first and a part of the second divisions of the first book of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. (Corresponds to part I, pp. 1-40 of the Roman edition.)Beg.: بسم الله ... قال الشىخ الرئىس ابو علي الحسىنEnding: وىکون الخرىف هو المقابل له في مثل بلادناMarginal notes and glosses. On three folios before the first occur the title of a work given as Sharḥ al-Mūjaz fī al-ṭibb and the introduction and a part of the table of contents of the work. MS incomplete at the end; in fair condition. Probably from XVIIth century.Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Abstract: Defective copy of a treatise on the interpretation of dreams attributed to Avicenna.Binding note: Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of red leather over paper pasteboard. The covers are similarly tooled with a central gold-painted mandorla linked to the outer frame by a vertical blind-tooled fillet. The envelope flap has a blind tooled outer frame similar to that on the covers.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).15 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red for headings. Dark cream paper with laid lines visible. Short text in Persian on fol. 92b. Fāʾidah in Arabic on fol. 94b. Inscriptions in Persian and Arabic on fol. 1a-b and 91b. Inscription on fol. 96b. Ownership statements and seals on fol. 2a and 91a. Three first leaves defective. Leaves missing between fol. 9 and 10, between fol. 67 and 68, and between fol. 76 and 77.Copied in 892 by Isḥāq ibn Muslim al-Ṭālibī (colophon, fol. 91a).Incipit: بسم ... وبه الثقة وعليه التوكل قال ... ابو علي بن عبد الله بن سينا ... الغريزات الاودية التي استمدت الأمواه من العيونExplicit: بيكون عونا لمن يريد استخراج الرويا الغريبة الحقيقة بتوسطها واد قد وفينا بما وعدنا