A medical text based on Avicenna, Al-qanūn fī l-ṭibb (‘Canon of medicine’; ed. Bulaq 1871, II:245-247), dealing with inflammation and swelling, in particular pleurisy and pneumonia.Condition: Tiny holes, rubbedLayout: 13 lines
Leaf from a Judaeo-Arabic version of Avicenna, Al-qanūn fī l-ṭibb (‘Canon of medicine’), dealing with medicine that helps increase the hotness, coldness, moisture and dryness of the body, according to the general humoral theory (ed. Būlāq 1871, I: 104-105).Condition: Torn, tiny holes, slightly rubbedLayout: 23 lines
The main Arabic text describes the definition of medicine as a meeting of theory and practice as contained in Avicenna’s Al-qanūn fī l-ṭibb (‘Canon of medicine’; ed. Būlāq I:3). More Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic text is jotted on the page regardless of the direction of writing of the main text and overlapping with it.Condition: Torn, stainedLayout: 13 lines (recto); 15 lines (verso) + marginalia and interlinear additions