Medicine [IO Islamic 1959]

Medicine.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1959 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 780 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

780.

1959. Size 101/2 in. by 61/2 in.; foll. 167. Twenty-five lines in a page.

A Commentary on the first book of the Ḳânûn(الكلّيات) , by MAḤMÛD ÂMULÎ (d. A.H. 753). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 500.

The preface begins: الحمد لله الذى وفت حكمته فى خلقة الانسان . The author, after mentioning the commentaries of Râzî, Afḍal Khûnajî, and Ḳurashî, lauds that of his master, Ḳuṭb al-dîn Shîrâzî, 1 to which the present work is intended as a supplement, especially as regards anatomical matters. He dedicates it to a prince, whose name is not mentioned. ‘Alî Gîlânî, in the introduction to his commentary (see the following no.) says that Âmulî-he calls him Muḥammad-wrote his work for the use of some princes (اولاد اهل الدول) , who had come from remote countries , in order to read with him the Ḳânûn , and that it was written in haste, without much care and preparation.

The text of the Ḳânûn is introduced by قال , and the commentary by اقول .

This MS. Is imperfect at the end. It terminates in the commencement of the second فنّ .

Legibly written in Nasta’liḳ.

[Johnson.]

1 See the preceding no.