Medicine [IO Islamic 1418]

Medicine. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1418 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 785 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 785. 1418. Size 103/4 in. by 61/2 in.; foll. 420. Twenty-two lines in a page. A Commentary (ممزوج) on ‘Alâ al-dîn ‘Alî b. Abu’l-Ḥazm Ḳurashî’s (commonly called Ibn al-Nafîs, d. A.H. 687) موجز القانون , or abridgment of the Ḳânûn of Ibn Sînâ. The author, whose name is not mentioned, appears to be Burhân al-dîn NAFÎS B. ‘IWAḌ KARMÂNÎ, who completed his work A.H. 841, at Samarḳand. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 252; Stewart's Catal. 114 sq.; Cat. Bodl. ii. 686; and regarding the original work, Cat. Lugd. iii. 239, and the edition of Calcutta, 1828. Begins without a preface: قال الشیخ الامام البحرالكامل علاء الدين على بن ابى الحزم القرشى المتطبب صيغة تفعّل ههنا للمبالغة مثل تقدّس و تمجّد. Well written in Nasta’liḳ. In the latter portion the text and the commentary are not distinguished. Notes in the earlier portion. Inscribed at a recent date نفيسی شرح موجز . [Tippu.]