Kitāb al-najāh كتاب النجاة Avicenna ابن سينا

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Treatise on logic, physics and metaphysics by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).

Contents:

• Chapter One from the Elements of Logic (المقالة الأولى من أصول المنطق, ff. 35v-51v);
• Chapter One from the Physics (المقالة الأولى من الطبيعيات, ff. 52r-75r);
• Chapter One from the Metaphysics (المقالة الأولى من الإلهية, ff. 75r-100v).

This copy was made from the Medicean edition published at Rome (in Tipografia Medicea, 1593) as shown most clearly by its inclusion of a concluding note appended to that edition, which warns that the text contains many statements contrary to 'our Catholic faith' (إيماننا القاثوليقي), 'Christian doctrine' (التعليم المسيحي) and 'our Catholic creed' (مذهبنا القاثوليقي, f. 100v, lines 18-25). Like the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. to text 46 (f. 552r, lines 21-26), which was also copied from the exemplar, the concluding note here was cancelled by the scribe.

Extent and format

Ff. 35v-100v

It is part of

Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna (ابن سينا)

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Ref: Add MS 16659

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

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Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 16659, ff 35r-100v

History of this record

Date(s)

1182 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Related material

Finding aids

• Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 978, pp. 447-51
• Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum , 3 vols. (London: The British Museum, 1879-83), vol. 2, pp. 438-39

Select Bibliography

Editions:

• Avicenna, 'Kitāb al-najāh mukhtaṣar al-shifāʼ', in Libri quinque canonis medicinae. Quibus additi sunt in fine libri logicae, physicae et metaphysicae. Arabice nunc primum impressi (Rome: in Tipografia Medicea, 1593), text 2
• Avicenna, al-Najāh fī al-ḥikmah al-manṭiqīyah wa-al-ṭabīʻah wa-al-ilāhīyah (Cairo: Maktabat Muṣtafá al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī, 1938)

Studies:

• Gutas, Dimitri, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition. Introduction to Reading Avicenna’s Philosophical Works, 2nd ed., including an Inventory of Avicenna’s Authentic Works (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014), p. 424
• Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 317, p. 124, item E2

Subjects

Philosophy -- Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Avicenna

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