Avicenna

AVERROES, AVICENNA; S. XIV in. Merton College MS. 282

Avicenna — s. xiv; English, prob. Oxford Merton College E. 3. 38

AVICENNA ; S. XIII Merton College MS. 224

AVERROES, BERNARD DE GORDON &c.; S. XIV1 Merton College MS. 225

RASIS, AVICENNA; S. XIV1 Merton College MS. 227

Isidore, of Seville, Saint -636, Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1100–1300; England. University College MS. 118

This book is one the most important and mose comprehensive books by Avicenna in medicine, one of the most prominent medicine books in the Islamic civilization, and one of the most important works in medicine in the ancient world. In the Islamic civilization, there are three books that are considered as the most important medicine books by Muslim medics: Al-ḥāvī by Mūḥammad Zakariyā Rāzī, Kāmil al-ṣanāʿah by Majūsī Ahvāzī, and Qānūn by Avicenna. Amongst these works, Avicenna's Qānūn excels the other works with respect to the richness of content and the quality of expression. Qānūn contains five books, including: book one: Kulliyāt al-ṭibbiyah, book two: al-Adviyah al-mufradah, book three: al-Amrāz̤ al-juzʾiyah li-kull-i ʿuz̤v, book four: al-Amrāz̤ al-juzʾiyah al-ghayr al-mukhtaṣṣah bi-ʿuz̤v, and book five: al-Adviyah al-murakkabah. Numerous commentaries have been written on this book, some of the most important of which to include: Sharḥ-i Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Sharḥ-i Muḥammad bin Aḥmad Amshāṭī, Sharḥ-i Fakhr al-Dīn Rāzī, Sharḥ-i Quṭb al-Dīn Ibrāhīm bin ʿAlī Miṣrī, Sharḥ-i ʿAlā al-Dīn bin Abū Ḥazm Qurashī, Sharḥ-i Mūsá bin Yūnis. This copy is lacunary from around the middle of the fifth book. — Multiple dates; Unknown place of origin Wadh.Minasian 1

4 works by 2 authors on the subject of Music — 1333 MS. Marsh 521

Canon (Book III) by Avicenna — [early 14th century; paper-parchment parts: mid-14th century]; [Italy] MS. Canon. Or. 57

Hebrew translation of Avicenna's Canon — [early 15th century]; [Spain] MS. Canon. Or. 88

1 copy of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Huntington donat. 7

1 copy of al-Mūjiz by Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 11-1288 — 1561 MS. Huntington donat. 9

1 copy of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Thurston 2

1 copy of Commentary on the anatomical sections of books 1 and 3 of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna, 980-1037 by Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 11-1288 — 16th cent.? MS. Arab. e. 177

Guardbook of pastedowns from Oxford bindings, made by Philip Bliss MS. Lat. misc. b. 18

1 work on the subject of Medicine — 1591 or 1688 MS. Arab. e. 178

8 works by 5 authors on the subject of Medicine — 1769 MS. Bruce 50

1 copy of al-Mūjiz fī al-manṭiq by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Marsh 603

4 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Theology and Philosophy MS. Huntington 307

1 copy of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Huntington 196

Marsilius de Sancta Sophia — 15th century MS. Canon. Misc. 481

15 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Philosophy, Theology, Prayer, Koran, Islam, Soul, Psychology, and Love MS. Marsh 536

Guardbook of fragments MS. Lat. misc. c. 17

1 copy of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 13th or 14th cent.? MS. Bodl. Or. 263

1 copy of Glosses on the K. al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt of Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1367 MS. Marsh 380

The volume consists of 227 folios and 5 preliminary leaves. Folios 2−226 were written by the same copyist and on the same type of paper and consist of twenty-eight numbered quires of eight folios each (except the first quire of seven folios and some disturbance in the two middle quires). Traces of Arabic numerals are visible in the upper left corners of some of the quires; on the lower left-hand corners upper-case letters of the Roman alphabet have been written, in sequence, beginning with folio 9 (labelled B). The letter S occurs on the quire beginning with folio 130, T on folios 138a and then again on folio 146a, V on folio 148a, X on folio 154a, Y on folios 162a, and Z on folio 170a. Thereafter, the alphabet repeats, with each letter given in both upper case and lower case (‘Aa’on folio 178; ‘Ff’ on folio 218). There are seven later owners’s notes (names not legible) and couplets written on folio 2a. Folio 2b is blank. The upper half of folio 3a has been defaced; the label Kitāb fī al-ṭibb has been written on it in brown ink, and on the lower half of the folio miscellaneous medical notes have been added by the same hand as added paragraphs to other folios within the treatise. Folio 227a (with horizontal laidlines and chain lines in groups of 3s) has two recipes: one for ulceration taken from Quṭb Shīrāzī [= Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī who died in 710/1311] and an eye remedy ‘belonging to the West’ (shiyāf lil-gharb) said to be from the Aqraādhīn of one Filānīsī (فلانيسي). On folio 227b there are even more casually written recipes, several for maʿjūns. Folio 1 is not a part of the original set of quires labelled with Latin letters. Folio 1 is of different paper (no visible laid or chain lines) and was at one time folded; folio 1a has later notes in five different hands written at various angles, including an Arabic note stating the number of leaves to be 225, a Latin notation of subject, a Persian couplet, and a recipe that is repeated in a different hand on the facing folio (preliminary folio vb). Folio 1b has eight recipes written in very casual hands, includng one taken from the Minhāj al-dukkān (written in 658/1260 by al-Kūhīn al-ʿAṭṭār al-Hārūnī al-Isrāʾīlī (fl. 658/1260). On preliminary folio vb a piece of paper similar to that of folio 1 has been pasted on. The five preliminary leaves (front endpapers) are of watermarked paper (shield and the letter JC). On preliminary folio iiia the number from the Golius Sale Cat. is recorded as well as the number N. 229 and the catalogue number as in UAM; there is also a Latin label from a spine, probably on the volume before rebinding in the nineteenth century, now pasted onto folio iiia, and a note by Steinschneider written in 1852 identifying the author, incorrectly, as Ibn el Talmid. The remaining preliminary folios are blank. — ?13th cent. MS. Marsh 537

22 works by 11 authors — 1634 MS. Ouseley 95

Avicenna — 13th century, second half; Italian MS. Radcliffe Trust. d. 60

3 works by 3 authors on the subject of Philosophy — Multiple dates MS. Pococke 107

Avicenna — 13th century, end MS. Digby 217

Gentilis Fulginas — 1466; Venice, Italy MS. Canon. Misc. 194

Avicenna — 13th century, end; Italian, North (?) MS. Canon. Misc. 473

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Pococke 109

1 copy of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1496 MS. Marsh 138

Avicenna — 14th century, beginning; Italian MS. Canon. Misc. 562

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1207 MS. Pococke 110

1 copy of Ḥall al-mūjiz by Aqsarāʼī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 14th cent. — 1500 MS. Marsh 233

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1207 MS. Pococke 111

1 copy of Commentary on Anatomica from books 1 and 3 of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb of Avicenna, 980-1037 by ʻAlī Ibn al-Nafīs al-Qarshī d. 1288 — 13th or 14th cent.? MS. Marsh 234

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1207 MS. Pococke 112

1 copy of al-Mabāhith al-Qānūnīyah by Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 11-1288 — 1332 MS. Huntington 102

1 copy of Commentary on the Kullīyāt of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna, 980-1037 by Sāmarrī, Yaʻqūb ibn Abī Isḥāq, 13th cent. — 1321 MS. Marsh 464

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1206 MS. Pococke 113

Avicenna — 14th century, first quarter; Italian MS. Add. C. 72

3 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Euclid's Elements, Geometry, Soul, Psychology, and Astronomy — 1272 MS. Marsh 621

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1206 MS. Pococke 114

1 copy of Arabic vocabulary by Clarke, Samuel, 1624 or 5-1669 — Before 1669 MS. S. Clarke 13

Gentile Fulgineo — 15th century, second half; Italian MS. Canon. Misc. 465

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Pococke 115

3 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Medicine and Geography — 1556 MS. Laud Or. 5

6 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Tales, Medicine, and Islamic magic — Multiple dates MS. Arab. f. 49

5 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Medicine and Teeth MS. Huntington 461

Alcabitius, Japhar, Thebit ben Corat, Alfraganus, Ps.-Ptolemy, Ps.-Aristotle — 14th century, second half; Spanish MS. Bodl. 463

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1206 MS. Pococke 116

1 copy of al-Maknūn fī tanqīḥ al-Qānūn by Ibn Jumayʻ, Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn, d. 1198 — 1357 MS. Marsh 390

Canon (Books I, V) by Avicenna — [late-13th - early 14th century]; [Spain] MS. Canon. Or. 50

1 copy of al-Shifā by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Huntington 111

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1207 MS. Pococke 117

1 copy of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Bodl. Or. 702

1 copy of Ḥall al-mūjiz by Aqsarāʼī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 14th cent. — 1478 MS. Huntington 596

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1206 MS. Pococke 118

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1206 MS. Pococke 119

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1205 MS. Pococke 120

2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Philosophy and Universal history MS. Marsh 32

1 copy of Untitled by Lāhūrī, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ ibn Sayyid Isrāʼīl. Ḥusaynī — 18th cent.? MS. Ind. Inst. Arab. 10

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1205 MS. Pococke 121

6 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Medicine, Botany, and Materia medica — Multiple dates MS. Huntington 602

1 copy of Untitled — 1790? MS. Ind. Inst. Arab. 11

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1204 MS. Pococke 122

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1205 MS. Pococke 123

1 copy of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Huntington 23

1 copy of al-Mughnī by Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd, d. 1357 — 18th cent.? MS. Ind. Inst. Arab. 13

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Pococke 124

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1369 MS. Pococke 125

Avicenna — 13th century, third quarter; English MS. Laud Misc. 607

1 copy of al-Mūjiz by Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 11-1288 — 1638 MS. Marsh 482

Medical texts; three MSS. bound together at an early date. French (Southern?), 13th century. MS. Lat. misc. c. 73

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Huntington 13

2 works by anonymous authors on the subjects of Bible and Medicine MS. Laud Or. 135

5 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Philosophy, Koran, Love, and Astronomy — 13th or 14th cent.? MS. E.D. Clarke Or. 19

One copy of the Kitāb al-musīqī (a section of Avicenna's Kitāb al-najāt) and one copy of Bayḍāwī's Niẓām al-tavārīkh MS. Marsh 161

Book 1 of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna, 980-1037 — n.d. [Before 888/1484]. MS. Pococke 131

1 copy of Sharḥ Kitāb al-kullīyāt by Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 1149 or 50-1210 — 1215 MS. Arch. Selden A. 64

1 copy of Ḥall al-mūjiz by Aqsarāʼī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 14th cent. — 1564 MS. Laud Or. 49

1 copy of al-Mughnī by Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd, d. 1357 — 1398 MS. Huntington 35

18 works by 10 authors on the subjects of Philosophy, Koran, Aphorisms and apothegms, Mysticism, and Logic — 1674 MS. Ind. Inst. Arab. 20

1 copy of al-Ḥikmah al-mashriqīyah by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Pococke 181

1 copy of al-Mūjiz by Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 11-1288 — 1317 MS. Pococke 34

1 copy of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1536 MS. Marsh 647

2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Sufi poetry, Soul, and Psychology — 1335 MS. Pococke 244

4 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Medicine and Philosophy — Multiple dates MS. Huntington 502

1 copy of al-Mughnī by Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd, d. 1357 — 1390 MS. Marshall Or. 10

1 copy of A commentary on a work on Islamic law MS. Marsh 261

1 copy of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1126 MS. Pococke 47

Avicenna: Canon (Book I) — 1421; [Sepharad (Southern Italy or Sicily?)] MS. Canon. Or. 43

1 copy of al-Qānūnchah fī al-ṭibb by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Jaghmīnī, -1344 — 1685 MS. A. Walker 24

1 copy of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna, 980-1037 — 1204 or 1241 A.H. = 1790 or 1826 A.D. MS. Ind. Inst. Arab. 3

Medicine; Italy, 15th century (partly 1461) MS. Laud Misc. 617

1 copy of al-Shifāʼ by Avicenna, 980-1037 — bef. 1485 MS. Pococke 250

1 copy of *Commentary on al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb of Avicenna, 980-1037 by Quṭb al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd, 1236 or 7-1310 or 11 — 1700 [vol.2]. MS. Ind. Inst. Arab. 5,6

Medical, grammatical, astrological etc. collections of Richard Stapledon; England (Oxford), c. 1430 MS. Digby 29

1 copy of Untitled — 18th cent.? MS. Ind. Inst. Arab. 7

1 copy of Commentary on the K. al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt of Avicenna, 980-1037 by Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 1149 or 50-1210 — 1400 MS. Marsh 500

1 copy of al-Kashf wa-al-bayān fī maʻrifat al-insān by Tilimsānī, ʻAfīf al-Dīn Sulaymān ibn ʻAlī, d. 1291 MS. Sale 20

Avicenna — 15th century MS. Canon. Misc. 125

1 copy of Ẓafar-nāmah-i Buzurgmihr by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Ouseley Add. 69

1 copy of Commentary on the first book of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb of Avicenna, 980-1037 by Āmulī, Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, d. 1352 or 3 — 18th cent.? MS. Arab. d. 193

1 copy of Nuzhat al-ḥukamāʼ wa-rawḍat al-aṭibbāʼ by Quṭb al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd, 1236 or 7-1310 or 11 MS. Huntington 263

Collection of philosophical textsMilḥamot HaShem le-Ramḥal MS. Reggio 11

3 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Soul and Psychology — 1614 MS. Marsh 35

2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Medicine and Fever — 1449 MS. Huntington 375

1 copy of Ḥall al-mūjiz by Aqsarāʼī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 14th cent. MS. Marsh 100

1 copy of al-Mūjiz by Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 11-1288 MS. Greaves 18

6 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Philosophy, Soul, and Zoology — Multiple dates MS. Huntington 534

1 copy of al-Mughnī fī al-ṭibb by Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd, d. 1357 — [vol. 2]: 1631 MS. Bruce 2, 3

3 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Theology, Philosophy, and Sufism — Multiple dates MS. Pococke 263

2 works by anonymous authors on the subjects of Philosophy and Euclid's Elements MS. Arab. f. 1

1 copy of Ẓafar-nāmah-i Buzurgmihr by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Pers. e. 11

1 copy of al-Mūjiz by Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 11-1288 MS. Marsh 359

Giovanni Matteo di' Gradi of Milan — 1458–1464; Italian, Lombardy MS. Digby 135

1 copy of al-Mughnī by Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd, d. 1357 — 1469 MS. Huntington 176

1 copy of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Huntington 541

Marsilius de Sancta Sophia — 15th century MS. Canon. Misc. 549

Miscellaneous notes on medicine MS. Laud Or. 113

Avicenna — 1464; [Padua?, Italy] MS. Canon. Misc. 440

1 copy of Ẓafar-nāmah-yi Buzurjmihr by Avicenna, 980-1037 MS. Elliott 288