al-Mughnī fī sharḥ al-mūjiz المغني في شرح الموجز Kāzarūnī, Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd كازروني، محمد بن مسعود

Content

Sections (فنون) One and Two from The Sufficient Concerning the Commentary on the Summary (المغني في شرح الموجز) by Sadīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mas‘ūd al-Kāzarūnī (سديد الدين محمد بن مسعود الكازروني; d. 1357), a commentary on Ibn al-Nafīs' (ابن النفيس; d. 1288) Summary of the Canon (موجز القانون), itself an epitome of Avicenna's (Ibn Sīnā, ابن سينا; d. 1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ).

The text is divided into four sections following the four sections of Ibn al-Nafīs' Mūjiz the first two of which are contained in the present manuscript.

• Commentary on Section One (شرح الفن الأول, ff. 3v-68v);
• Commentary on Section Two (شرح الفن الثاني, ff. 68v-133v).

Folios 1v-3r contain notes on preparations of compound drugs.

The copy was completed on 6 Ramaḍān 764/19 June 1363 (see colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , f. 133v, lines 7-8, transcribed below).

Begins (f. 3v, lines 1-4):

... الحمد لله الذي أبدع بقدرته جواهر عقلية مجردة واخترع

منها أجرامًا فلكية منضّدة وأحدث من اختلاف أوضاعها في عالم الكون والفساد أنواع المواليد حسب القابلية

والاستعداد وحصّل من عدل الأسطقسات في الكميات والكيفيات اعتدال مزاج الإنسان من بين سائر

الممتزجات والمركبات فسبحانه من منعم لا تكتنه نعماؤه ...

Ends (f. 133v, lines 1-3):

من كل واحد درهمين قرنفل وقاقلة كبار وصغر من كل واحد نصف درهم زنجبيل ودار فلفل

من كل واحد دانقين سكر طبرزد عشرين مثقالًا يجمع الأدوية مسحوقة الشربة من مثقال

إلى درهمين مع الورد المربى والله أعلم بالصواب وإليه المرجع والمآب ...

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 133v, lines 3-9):

... تم الكتاب

وإليه المرجع بفضل الله الملك الوهاب قال مولانا وشيخنا سديد الملة والدين الكازروني

أدام الله بركات أنفاسه العيسوية وأياديه الموسوية بمحمد النبي وعترته هذا ما التقطت

من القرابادينات المعتمد عليها ليكون الكتاب مغنيًا عن مطالع الكتب والحمد لله وحده

والصلوة والسلم على من لا نبي بعده وآله وصحبه وقع الفراغ من تعليقه سادس رمضان

المبارك سنة أربع وستين وسبعمائة هجرية صلوات الله وسلامه على صاحبها

وسلم تسليمًا

Extent and format

Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+133+i

Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 220 x 150 mm leaf [165 x 100 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil, quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. marks (quaternions and quinions) are visible on ff. 11r, 21r, 29r, 37r and 45r

Ruling: Misṭarah ; 25 lines per page; vertical spacing 15 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated lemmata and some overlinings in red

Decoration: None

Binding: British Museum half-leather binding

Condition: Lower edge corner mutilated and repaired (ff. 65-93), all folios guarded, some off-setting towards gutter in middle of ff. 121v-127v

Marginalia: Numerous by more than one hand

Seals: f. 3r

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 6491

History of this record

Date(s)

6 Ramaḍān 764 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Provenance

‘Alī ibn Muḥammad (علي بن محمد, remainder of name semi-legible): His inscription with date 765/1363-4 (f. 3r);

Yūsuf ibn Qurqumās al-Ḥamzāwī (يوسف قرقماس الحمزاوي): His inscription, without date, recording his purchase of the manuscript from Shaykh Shams al-Dīn [semi-legible name element] al-Ḥanafī (شيخ شمس الدين الحنفي, f. 3r);

Faḍl Allāh ibn ‘Imād ibn ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Mukhtār (فضل الله بن عماد بن عبد الكريم المختار)), physician: His inscription, without date (f. 3r);

Illegible seal, with semi-legible date (f. 3r).

Immediate source of acquisition

Purchased from Ibrahim Elias Gejou, 7 April 1903

Related material

Finding aids

• Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards, A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 44
• Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), Item 238, p. 196

Select Bibliography

Editions of the text commented upon:

• Ibn al-Nafīs, ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, al-Mūjiz fī al-ṭibb (al-Qāhirah: Wizārat al-Awqāf, 1986)
• Ibn al-Nafīs, ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, Kitāb mūjiz al-qānūn (Calcutta: The Education Press, 1828)

Studies:

• Fancy, Nahyan, 'Medical Commentaries: A Preliminary Examination of Ibn al-Nafīs’s Shurūḥ, the Mūjaz and Commentaries on the Mūjaz' Oriens 41 (2013) 525-545
• Iskandar, A.Z., A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1967), p. 54

Subjects

Medicine--Early works to 1800

People & organisations

AvicennaMuḥammad ibn Mas'ūd Kāzarūnī'Alī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm Ibn al-Nafīs

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