ABU `ALI AL-HUSAYN BIN `ABDULLAH IBN SINA (AVICENNA) (D. AH 428/1037 AD): AL-QANUN FI AL-TIBB

Lot 64
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Lot 64 | ABU 'ALI AL-HUSAYN BIN 'ABDULLAH IBN SINA (AVICENNA) (D. AH 428/1037 AD): AL-QANUN FI AL-TIBB
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ABU 'ALI AL-HUSAYN BIN 'ABDULLAH IBN SINA (AVICENNA) (D. AH 428⁄1037 AD): AL-QANUN FI AL-TIBB

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, 17TH CENTURY

Comprising the first five books of Avicenna's famous medical encyclopedia, Arabic manuscript on paper, 847ff. as numbered plus two flyleaves, each folio with 25ll. of black naskh, important words and phrases picked out in red, catchwords, text within gold, blue and red borders, a red rule in the margins, colophon erroneously dated AH 800, with later owners' seal impressions, first and last folios with areas of soiling, slightly trimmed, generally clean, in restored Mamluk gilt and brown stamped morocco covers and doublures

Text panel 73⁄4 x 4 5⁄8in. (19.8 x 11.5cm.); folio 10 7⁄8 x 71⁄4in. (27.3 x 18.4cm.)







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Christie's London, 13 April 2010, lot 126





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