Kitāb al-Ghiná wa-al-muná, P' Ṿa-yaḳhel fī 25 min ṣahr Adar 2 shenat [5]608 la-yetsirah [30 March 1848].
כתאב אל-גינא וואלמונא

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Qumrī, Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥasan ibn Nūḥ, active 11th century.

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Encyclopedias--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Pharmacology--Encyclopedias--Early works to 1800.

Pharmacology.

Medicine, Persian--10th century--Texts.

Jewish physicians--Syria--19th century--History--Sources.

Jewish physicians.

Local Subjects:

Medicine, Persian--10th century--Texts.

Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)

manuals (instructional materials)

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Judaica Jerusalem, 12 June 2013, lot 154.

Physical Description:

1 item (i, 231 leaves) : paper ; 175 x 110 (143 x 72) mm.

Place of Publication:

P' Ṿa-yaḳhel fī 25 min ṣahr Adar 2 shenat [5]608 la-yetsirah [30 March 1848].

פ' ויקהל פי 25 מן שהר אדר ב' שנת תר"ח ליצירה.

Language Note:

In Arabic (written in Hebrew letters).

Biography/History:

Tenth century medical authority from Bukhara, court physician to Abu Salih Mansur, emir of the Samanids (died 976); he is thought to have taught medicine to Avicenna.

Summary:

This is a manuscript of Qumrī's Kitāb al-Ghiná wa-al-muná (sometimes referred to as Ghina wa Muna), probably copied in Syria, perhaps by a Jewish student of medicine. The title was popularly known by translation as the book of wealth and wishes; it was mostly more obscure than Qumrī's supposed successor Avicenna (Abū ʻAlī ibn Sīnā, 980-1037) and his work, though it served as an encyclopedic work of pharmacology, external medication, and treatment and classification of fevers. Additional medical material written in a later hand in lighter ink (f. 229v-231v); written in an Oriental cursive Hebrew script in single columns, mostly of 31 lines. Bound in a contemporary leather binding (wearing, creasing, and splitting).

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 579.

OCLC:

1350156297