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