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Object numberMS 1654 [Handlist 106]
Titleal-Urjūza fi’l-ṭibb
CreatorIbn Sīnā (Author)
DescriptionThis is a fragment of an undated, but evidently old copy of a famous didactic poem on medicine by the celebrated doctor and philosopher Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn b. ‘Abd Allāh, known (in Arabic) as Ibn Sīnā, and (in the West) as Avicenna, born 370/980, died 428/1037. On the front cover of this copy it is called al-urjūza al-sinā’iyya fi’l-ṭibb. Manuscripts are frequent (see Ullmann) and the poem was also well known in medieval Europe thanks to several Latin versions of the Cantica A vicennae. It consists of a theoretical (‘ilmī) and a practical (‘amalī) part, the latter in three sections on (1) hygiene, diet, etc., (2) therapeutics, and (3) surgery. The present copy begins with the last five verses of the theoretical part, and then the first section of the second part and (from fol. 6b) the
beginning of the second section.
EDITION and TRANSLATION: Henri Jahier and Abdelk.ader Noureddine (Paris, 1956), together with a 13th-century Latin translation.
REFERENCES: See Ullmann (1970), pp. 154-155.
DESCRIPTION: brown cloth binding with leather trim; 32 folios; catchwords (some of which are cut off); 16.5 x 12.5 cm (12.5 x 9 cm); 21 lines; black ink with chapter headings in red; naskh; marginal corrections; marginal and interlinear glosses in Persian; no indication of scribe or date; seals.
beginning of the second section.
EDITION and TRANSLATION: Henri Jahier and Abdelk.ader Noureddine (Paris, 1956), together with a 13th-century Latin translation.
REFERENCES: See Ullmann (1970), pp. 154-155.
DESCRIPTION: brown cloth binding with leather trim; 32 folios; catchwords (some of which are cut off); 16.5 x 12.5 cm (12.5 x 9 cm); 21 lines; black ink with chapter headings in red; naskh; marginal corrections; marginal and interlinear glosses in Persian; no indication of scribe or date; seals.
DocumentationBlois, François de. Arabic, Persian and Gujarati Manuscripts: The Hamdani Collection. London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2011.
Object typemanuscript