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'ALA AL-DIN ABU AL-HASAN 'ALI BIN AL-QADI NAFIS AL-DIN ABI AL-HAZM AL-QARSHI IBN AL-NAFIS (D. 1288-89 AD): SHARH AL-QANUN
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'ALA AL-DIN ABU AL-HASAN 'ALI BIN AL-QADI NAFIS AL-DIN ABI AL-HAZM AL-QARSHI IBN AL-NAFIS (D. 1288-89 AD): SHARH AL-QANUN

TIMURID IRAN, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY

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'ALA AL-DIN ABU AL-HASAN 'ALI BIN AL-QADI NAFIS AL-DIN ABI AL-HAZM AL-QARSHI IBN AL-NAFIS (D. 1288-89 AD): SHARH AL-QANUN
TIMURID IRAN, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY
A 'Commentary on the Generalities of the Qanun' of Ibn Sina, 527ff., 23ll. of black cursive script, important words picked out in red, some phrases overlined in red, opening folio with title cartouche in gold thuluth on gold and polychrome illuminated ground, text within blue and black-ruled gold frame, occasional marginal notes, in fine gilt reddish-brown morocco stamped with floral and calligraphic decoration
Folio 10 ¼ x 6 ¾in. (25.8 x 17.2cm.)
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For more information on Ibn al-Nafis' commentary on Ibn Sina’s Qanun see Helena M. Paavilainen, Medieval Pharmacotheraphy, Continuity and Change: Case Studies from Ibn Sina and some of his Late Medieval Contemporaries, Leiden & Boston, 2009, pp.76-77.

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