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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.

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2009

The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland

21201http://www.thewalters.org/

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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

NOTE: The pages in this book are ordered from right to left. This means that to view the pages inorder, you should go the last page of the document and read what would be from “back-to-front”for a Western manuscript.

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2009

The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland

21201http://www.thewalters.org/

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

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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: 1Ruled lines: 22

Contents fols. 1b - 309a:Title: Ḥall al-MūjizIncipit:

Text note: Text commented upon overlined in red andintroduced (not systematically) by the sigla: m (matn)and shīn (sharḥ); numerous marginal and interlinearglosses and corrections; some outlines in red inkHand note: Written in nastaʿlīq script in black and redink; rubricated words not always supplied

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: ʿAbbāsWasīm (fol. 1a)

Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Binding The binding is not original.

Re-backed brown leather (no flap)

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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.588

Descriptive Title Commentary on an abridgment of the Canon of medicine

Text title Ḥall al-MūjizVernacular:

Note: Title in preface (fol. 1b); present work is a commentaryon an abridgment (mūjiz) by Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 687 AH / 1288CE) of the Canon of medicine (al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb) by IbnSinā (Avicenna) (d. 428 AH / 1037 CE)

Author As-written name: Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammadal-AqsarāʾīName, in vernacular:

Abstract This manuscript is a copy of the commentary by Muḥāmmadal-Aqsarāʾī (d. 779 AH / 1378 CE), entitled Ḥall al-Mūjiz, onthe abridgment of Avicenna’s Canon of medicine (al-Qānūnfī al-ṭibb) by Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 687 AH / 1288 CE). Written in969 AH / 1561 CE by Khalīl Allāh Isfarāyinī, this scholarlycodex contains numerous marginal and interlinear glossesand corrections.

Date 9 Rabīʿ I 969 AH / 1561 CE

Origin Iran

Scribe As-written name: Khalīl Allāh IsfarāyinīName, in vernacular:

Form Book

Genre Scientific -- Medical

Language The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

Colophon 309a:Transliteration: faraghtu min itmāmih tāsiʿ shahr /1 / Rabīʿal-awwal sanat 969 /2 / kātibihu aqall ʿibā Allāh /3 /Khalīl Allāh Isfarāyinī /4 / ghafara dhunūbah wa-satarʿuyūbah /5 / wa-al-ḥamd li-Llāh awwlan /6 / wa-ākhiran

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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2011

A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.588,Commentary on an abridgment of the Canon of medicine

Title: Ḥall al-Mūjiz

Published by: The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201

http://www.thewalters.org/