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Walters Ms. W.588, Commentary on an abridgment of the Canon of medicine

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Shelf mark

W.588

Manuscript

Commentary on an abridgment of the Canon of medicine

Text title

Ḥall al-Mūjiz

Vernacular: حل الموجز

Author

As-written name: Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Aqsarāʾī

Name, in vernacular: جمال الدين محمد بن محمد الاقسرائي

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: خليل الله اسفرايني

Form

Book

Genre

Scientific -- Medical

Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

Colophon

fol. 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 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
Author: Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Aqsarāʾī
Scribe: Khalīl Allāh Isfarāyinī
Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين... اما بعد فان الطب علم شريف...
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

Binding

The binding is not original.

Re-backed brown leather (no flap)

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

Bibliography

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

Contributors

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara

Publisher

The Walters Art Museum

License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.