Qānūnchah fī al-ṭibb, [880, i.e. 1475 or 1476].

Fine copy of al-Jaghmīnī's (d.1344) Qānūnchah, a compendium on medicine and an extract from Ibn Sīnā’s Qānūn. Brockelmann treats this author as distinct from an astronomer of the same name who died in 1221.

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Isl. Ms. 613

Origin: As appears on p.257, copied by Bakhshī ibn Muṣṭafá al-Khāghalāʼī [?] [بخشى ابن مصطفى الخاغلائى] with transcription completed in 880 [1475 or 6].

Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- Inventory cataloguing slips in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.

Former shelfmark: From inner front cover, "IL 273" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).

Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather (upper cover) and cream colored textile [linen] (lower cover as well as spine and portion of upper cover to complete attachment of this replacement / repair) ; Type III binding (following repair) ; upper board lining in blue-tinted laid paper ; lower board lining in untinted laid paper ; upper cover bears tooled central motif and accents in annular stamps along with a tooled rule-border ; sewn mainly in heavy cream thread, two stations, also blue thread and four stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, staining, some spine slant (slightly cocked), etc.

Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper of perhaps several types ; mainly with with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) possibly grouped in threes with 8-10 mm. between chains, sturdy though thin, well-burnished ; opening replacement leaves in European laid paper with traces of three crescents and crown-star-crescent watermarks ; later replacement (leaf carrying pp.17-18) in different European laid paper with "E B" visible.

Decoration: Overlining in red ; some notabilia (side-heads) rubricated.

Script: Nastaʻlīq ; bold, elegant hand ; virtually serifless with very slight effect of words descending to baseline, occasionally more exaggerated, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, elongation and exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes ; text of opening replacement folia (pp.6-8) in a different hand, the same as that of the ownership statement for the physician Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz on 'title page' (p.5) ; replacement leaf carrying pp.17-18 in still a different hand, though possibly that of one of the later owners.

Layout: Written in 9 lines per page ; frame-ruled.

Collation: II (4), V-4 (6), 11 V(120), V-1 (129) ; chiefly quinions ; replacement folia (pp.6-8 and pp.17-18) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).

Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "تمت هذه الرسالة الشريفة على ايدى اضعف العباد وافقرهم واحوج الناس واحقرهم بخشى [؟] ابن مصطفى الخاغلائى [؟] غفر الله له ولوالديه مع جميع من آمن بالله الرؤوف الرحيم تاريخ سنة ٨٨٠"

Explicit: "واما الحلواء فالعسلى معين والعجينى غليظ مولد للسدد "

Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على رسوله محمد واله اجمعين وبعد فهذا مختصر مشتمل على زبدة ما يجب استحضاره من صناعة الطب انتخبته من كتب الاقدمين ورتبته على عشر مقالات ..."

Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.3).

Ms. codex.

Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn,

Brockelmann, C. GAL,

Fine copy of al-Jaghmīnī's (d.1344) Qānūnchah, a compendium on medicine and an extract from Ibn Sīnā’s Qānūn. Brockelmann treats this author as distinct from an astronomer of the same name who died in 1221.

Mode of access: Internet.

Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother.

Ownership statement dated 1 Jumādá I 1127 [ca. 5 May 1715] partially visible on verso of opening replacement leaf (p.2) in name of one ʻAbd Allāh ... [?] ; on verso of second replacement leaf (p.4) ownership statement dated Ramaḍān 1231 [July-August 1816] in name of Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ṣābūnī [?] (محمد ابن الحاج محمد صابوني [؟]) and partially effaced ownership statement dated 1285 [1868] in Ḥalab (Aleppo) in name of one ... al-Mārūnī ( الماروني ) ; on 'title page' (p.5), ownership statement in name of al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, who along with his father was a physician (طبيب) in Ḥalab and who likely supplied the text of the opening replacement leaves (pp.6-8), and an ownership statement in name of Muḥammad al-Khalāṣī (محمد الخلاصي) and of his son Muṣṭafá (الحاج مصطفى الخلاصي) ; occasional marginal corrections, glosses and notabilia (side-heads).