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<dl><dd>67 leaves, bound, (13 lines) : 18 cm</dd>
<dd>Manuscript</dd>
<dd>Arabic</dd>
<dd>Commentary on an Arabic translation of Hippocrates' De natura hominis</dd>
<dd>Title taken from title page (fol.1a); also given on fol. 1b lines 7-8 and in ijāzāh (fol. 67b)</dd>
<dd>The author of the commentary is named on fol. 1b line 6, the title page (fol. 1a), and the ijāzah (fol. 67b); Hippocrates is named as author of the Greek original on fol. 1b li; line 7 and fol. 67b line 6</dd>
<dd>Manuscript dated in the colophon (fol. 67a), where it states that the copy was made from an autograph copy of the author (Ibn al-Nafīs), by the scribe and physician, Abū al-Fadl ibn Abī al-Ḥasan</dd>
<dd>Purchased in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A. S. Yahuda, who (according to Iskandar, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 9, p. 603) acquired it in 1933 from the private library of Aḥmad ʻUbayd in Damascus. According to Yahuda's notes, he assigned it ELS No. 3543, though this number does not appear in the volume; vol. contains a label with number "260"</dd>
<dd>No other copy of this treatise is recorded</dd>
<dd>Fol. 67b consists of a certificate (ijāzah), dated 29 Jumādah I 668 [25 Jan. 1270], in the handwriting of Ibn al-Nafīs, certifying that Shams al-Dawlah Abū al-Fadl ibn al-Shaykh Abī al-Ḥasan al-Masīhī was able to accurately transmit and teach this work</dd>
<dd>Large Naskhi script not fully pointed but with some vowelling; pinkish tinge to paper; fol. 1 is a slightly later replacement; modern end papers; marginal corrections and other marginalia; some pages damaged and repaired; pages have been trimmed so that a few words in the margin are cut off</dd>
<dd>Fol. 1a has a talismanic inscription to protect the book</dd>
<dd>Brown leather binding with gold tooling, having central medallions and gold borders; envelope flap also with gold tooling; doublures of block-pressed leather</dd>
<dd>Described in: Schullian &amp; Sommer. Cat. of incun. &amp; MSS., 1950, A69.; Hamarneh, S. "Arabic MSS. NLM." J. Hist. Arab. Science (1977), p. 78; DSB, v. 9, p. 603</dd>
<dd>Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Army Medical Library, 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm</dd>
<dd>Condition reviewed 20171121</dd>
<dd>digitized. 2018</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Hippocrates. De natura hominis; Humoralism; Medicine, Arabic</div>
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Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 1211-1288</div>
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