France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, arab. 2918

France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, arab. 2918

Medical miscellany

Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 253 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 235 x 155 mm

Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    Text n° 11: In al-Qazwīnī 's Treatise on stones some pages are inverted.
  • Condition Description:
    Text n° 5: In ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā 's Guide for ophthalmologists some pages are detached near the end.
  • Hand Description:
    Several hands
    Text n° 9: Italic writing, probably by the author himself (autograph).
    Text n°13: The text is written in a disordered manner by an obviously untrained hand.
History
  • Origin Date: 13th-15th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France: Archives et Manuscrits [description]
Content
Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Lubūdī Summary of the general questions (Kulliyyāt) in Avicenna 's Canon of Medicine 1v - 35v
  • Incipit:
    الحمد لله الذى خلق الاركان و كوّن عنها جميع الاكوان

Ibn Butlan Therapy for illnesses arising for people in the spaciousness [outside the cities] [fragment: chapters 1-4 / beginning of chapter 5] 36r - 42r
  • Note:
    This book consists of 42 chapters, a list of which can be found on the first pages.

Avicenna The Canon of Medicine [fragment: Book II on simple medicine (letters alif, jīm, dāl)] 42v - 55v
Al-Razi Kitāb al-kulliyyāt fī l-ṭibb (Colliget) [fragment: part on fevers] 56r - 94v
ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā Guide for ophthalmologists [fragment: end of the second / beginning of the third part] 95r - 105v
Averroes Commentary on Avicenna’s Cantica 106r - 154v
Serapion the Elder al-Kunnāsh (Practica sive breviarium) [fragment: end of the third / beginning of the forth part, including a list of chapters] 155r - 170v
Anonymous Treatise on the life of saints and sufis [fragment] 171r - 182v
Anonymous Medical fragment 183r - 189v
Anonymous Medical fragment on illnesses of the skin, the vesica, the kidneys, etc. 190r - 200v
Zakariya al-Qazwini On stones [fragment] 201r - 206v
Anonymous Medical fragment on intestinal worms, hernia, colics, etc. 207r - 222v
Anonymous Notes of a physician 223r - 250v
  • Note:
    Notes of a physician about his treatment of illnesses, extracts of his lectures, recipes, etc.