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Bodleian Library MS. Pococke 131
Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (The Canon of Medicine)
13th century
The Qānūn of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) represents the high point in the codification of Arabic medicine. One of five books, book I starts with a definition of medicine and then deals in a general fashion with the human body, sickness, health and therapeutics.
Two pages of this manuscript, including the image featured below (f. 1a), have been digitised here, and a catalogue summary can be consulted here.
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