Kunnāsh al-Manṣūrī
Language: ara
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Arab Medicine; Arabic Manuscripts
Other titles: Maqālāt al-Manṣūrī
Work titles: Kitāb al-Manṣūrī
Description: Text is a well-known medical encyclopedia in 10 chapters, covering diseases of various organs and their treatment as well as a description of anatomy and physiology.
Notes: Ms.

Title added at head of fol. 1a in a much later hand in very pale pink pencil. Also in pink pencil on fol. 173b: Maqālat al-Manṣūrī.

Paper:  yellowed cream, some with tre luna watermarks.  Some leaves restored; many leaves affected by dark stains and humidity.  Black and red ink in text; text framed by a single red line, and some words underlined in red.  Marginal notes in various hands (including Amharic on fol. 17b); catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Arabic manuscripts, SM-55.

Chapter 2 through a major portion of chapter 10.

Nashkī script; 18 lines in written area, 16 x 11 cm.

Fol. 1a-173b.

Binding:  Recently rebound in leather.  Text is incomplete, with leaves missing from beginning and end.

Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fī maktabat al-Kūngris, 42-43.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Arabic; Amharic marginal notes fol. 17b.