Lot 163 A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOUNDING OF SEXUAL MEDICINE (FI AL-BAH), TWO ARABIC THESIS AND PERSIAN ANNOTATIONS ON MEDICINE IN ONE BINDING DATED 20 SHAWWAL 896 AH/8 AUGUST 1491 AD
Arabic Manuscript on Paper
This manuscript consists of 19 leaves with 18 lines per page, written in naskh script with black and red ink. The contents are as follows:
A Short Thesis on Medicine (in Arabic), spanning 8 pages (pages 6–14).
Risalah fi Tarkib Adwiyah al-Bah (A Treatise on the Pharmaceutical Compounding of Sexual Medicines), covering 24 pages (pages 14–38).
Annotations on Medicine (in Persian), comprising 5 pages (pages 1–5).
Dimensions: 18 by 14 cm.
Catalogue Note
Avicenna (980 – June 1037) was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers, and writers of the Islamic Golden Age, and is considered the father of early modern medicine.
His most famous works include The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia that became a standard medical text in many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650.