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Book/Printed Material A Treasury of Medicine.

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Title

  • A Treasury of Medicine.

Summary

  • Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī (died 901) was born in Harran, present-day Turkey, and died in Baghdad. A member of the Sabian religious sect, he was an astronomer, physician, mathematician, and fluent in Syriac, Arabic, and Greek. Kitāb al-Dhakhīrah fī ʻilm al-ṭibb (A treasury of medicine) contains 31 chapters, starting with hygiene and ending with sexual intercourse. This manuscript was probably copied in the 16th century and is bound with Sharḥ Urjūzat Ibn Sīnā fī al-ṭibb by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd (1126--98), known also by the Latinized version of his name, Averroës. There is no title page. The work itself is written in a neat medium-sized naskh script. Some interlinear and marginal corrections are present and catchwords appear on the bottom of the pages. The off-white paper is glazed, and the book's leather binding flap is blind stamped. The manuscript was a gift of Harvey Cushing (1869--1939), a Yale-educated neurosurgeon, whose collection of rare medical books forms a key part of the Medical Historical Library in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.

Names

  • Averröes, 1126-1198 Author.
  • Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, died 901 Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1500 to 1599]

Headings

  • -  850 to 1200
  • -  Arabic manuscripts
  • -  Medicine, Arab
  • -  Medicine, Medieval

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Historical Medical Library: Cushing Arabic Ms. 1."--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 15 x 25.5 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Yale University Library.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Arabic and Islamic Science and Its Influence on the Western Scientific Tradition: Medicine

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667270

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Averröes, Author, and Died 901 Author Thābit Ibn Qurrah Al-Ḥarrānī. A Treasury of Medicine. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1599, 1500] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667270/.

APA citation style:

Averröes, A. & Thābit Ibn Qurrah Al-Ḥarrānī, D. 9. A. (1500) A Treasury of Medicine. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1599] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667270/.

MLA citation style:

Averröes, Author, and Died 901 Author Thābit Ibn Qurrah Al-Ḥarrānī. A Treasury of Medicine. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1599, 1500] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667270/>.