IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 S102
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: Abbreviation of the Qanun of Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
Date(s): [19th century]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 vol.
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Abu Ali al-usayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina also known as Ibn Sina and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna (980-1037) was a Persian polymath, physician and Islamic philosopher. The Qanun (trans: The Canon of Medicine) is one of the most important of the works of Ibn Sina. It is divided into five books, of which the first deals with general principles; the second with simple drugs arranged alphabetically; the third with diseases of particular organs and members of the body from the head to the foot; the fourth with diseases which though local in their inception spread to other parts of the body, such as fevers and the fifth with compound medicines.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript abbreviated version of the Qanun (trans: The Canon of Medicine) of Ibn Sina (Avicenna).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Arabic
System of arrangement:
Single item.
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Physical characteristics:
Bound in a volume.
Finding aids:
No additional finding aids.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Acquired by the College Library from the estate of Roy Dobbin in 1938.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred to the College Archives in April 2008.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2008