Commentary on an abridgement of the Canon of Medicine, Walters Art Museum MS. W.588

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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

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Bibliography

Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (New York; KoĚˆln: E.J. Brill, 1996), 1: 598, S1: 825.

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wa- /7 / ẓāhiran /8 / wa-bāṭinan /9 / wa-sallam taslīman /10 / kathīran /11 / […?] /12/ Comment: Gives date of copying and scribe's name Support material

Paper Laid paper

Extent

Foliation: i+310+i

Collation

Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos

Dimensions

12.5 cm wide by 25.0 cm high

Written surface

6.5 cm wide by 17.0 cm high

Layout

Columns: 1 Ruled lines: 22

Contents

fols. 1b - 309a: Title: Ḥall al-Mūjiz Incipit: Text note: Text commented upon overlined in red and introduced (not systematically) by the sigla: m (matn) and shīn (sharḥ); numerous marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections; some outlines in red ink Hand note: Written in nastaʿlīq script in black and red ink; rubricated words not always supplied

Provenance

Ownership statement: Muḥammad Ṣādiq (fol. 1a) Ownership statement, plus seal: Muḥammad Shafiʿ al-Ṭabīb (fol. 1a) Private seal: ʿAbd Allāh Mālṭī al-Ṭabīb (fol. 1b) Ownership statement, plus seal dated [1]144 AH: ʿAbbās Wasīm (fol. 1a)

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Binding

The binding is not original.

Re-backed brown leather (no flap)

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Shelf mark

Walters Art Museum Ms. W.588

Descriptive Title

Commentary on an abridgment of the Canon of medicine

Text title

Ḥall al-Mūjiz Vernacular: Note: Title in preface (fol. 1b); present work is a commentary on an abridgment (mūjiz) by Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 687 AH / 1288 CE) of the Canon of medicine (al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb) by Ibn Sinā (Avicenna) (d. 428 AH / 1037 CE)

Author

As-written name: Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Aqsarāʾī Name, in vernacular:

Abstract

This manuscript is a copy of the commentary by Muḥāmmad al-Aqsarāʾī (d. 779 AH / 1378 CE), entitled Ḥall al-Mūjiz, on the abridgment of Avicenna’s Canon of medicine (al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb) by Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 687 AH / 1288 CE). Written in 969 AH / 1561 CE by Khalīl Allāh Isfarāyinī, this scholarly codex contains numerous marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections.

Date

9 Rabīʿ I 969 AH / 1561 CE

Origin

Iran

Scribe

As-written name: Khalīl Allāh Isfarāyinī Name, in vernacular:

Form

Book

Genre

Scientific -- Medical

Language

The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

Colophon

309a: Transliteration: faraghtu min itmāmih tāsiʿ shahr /1 / Rabīʿ al-awwal sanat 969 /2 / kātibihu aqall ʿibā Allāh /3 / Khalīl Allāh Isfarāyinī /4 / ghafara dhunūbah wa-satar ʿuyūbah /5 / wa-al-ḥamd li-Llāh awwlan /6 / wa-ākhiran

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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.588, Commentary on an abridgment of the Canon of medicine Title: Ḥall al-Mōjiz

Published by: The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2011