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Lot Essay
This is medical compendium is divided into nine books, to which a tenth book on simple and compound medicines was later added. Although based on Ibn Sina's Qanun fi'l tibb, Al-Jurjani added to it with his own extensive knowledge of contemporary medicine.
Al-Jurjani is recorded as the first notable physician who wrote in Persian. His other well-known medical works are Yadigar-i tibb (Medical Memoranda) and Aghrad al-tibb (The Aims of Medicine). See Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Science, Westerham, 1976, p.182
Other copies of this text are in the Wellcome Institute (Fateme Keshavarz, A Descriptive and Analytical Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Insititue for the Hisory of Medicine, London, 1986, p.149), and in the British Museum (Add. 23,556, Charles Riew, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vo.II, Oxford, 1881, pp.466-7).
Al-Jurjani is recorded as the first notable physician who wrote in Persian. His other well-known medical works are Yadigar-i tibb (Medical Memoranda) and Aghrad al-tibb (The Aims of Medicine). See Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Science, Westerham, 1976, p.182
Other copies of this text are in the Wellcome Institute (Fateme Keshavarz, A Descriptive and Analytical Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Insititue for the Hisory of Medicine, London, 1986, p.149), and in the British Museum (Add. 23,556, Charles Riew, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vo.II, Oxford, 1881, pp.466-7).