Šarḥ al-Qānūnčah (Husayn b. Muḥ. ʿAstarābādī)

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Sharḥ al-Qānūnčah (Husayn b. Muḥ. ʿAstarābādī)

Title (arabic)	شرح القانونچه
Title (translit)	Sharḥ al-Qānūnčah (Husayn b. Muḥ. ʿAstarābādī)
Alias	Šarḥ al-muḫtaṣar mawsūm bi-Qānūnčah شرح المختصر موسوم بقانونچه
Author	Husayn ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al-ʿAstarābādī
Created	831H/1428J
Created in	Herat
Language	Arabic
Subject	Medicine
Text type	Second-order composition (Commentary) [sharh]
Commentary on	Qānūnčah
Dedicated to	Amīr Murtaḍá
Notes	Composed Thursday, 17 Ramaḍān 830 [30 June 1428] in Herat for Amīr Sayyid al-Murtaḍā (d. 837/1433). According to ʿAstarābādī the Qānūnčah was: " … currently used in all countries, and indeed, students were as familiar with it as with the midday sun. In view of its very brief accounts of anatomy, and because it embraces so many topics, a commentary is badly needed."
ismi_id	346326

Manuscript Witnesses

8 witnesses:

Sharḥ al-Qānūnčah (Husayn b. Muḥ. ʿAstarābādī)_Cambridge, UK_Cambridge University Libraries_Or._6

Sharḥ al-Qānūnčah (Husayn b. Muḥ. ʿAstarābādī)_Istanbul_Istanbul University_NONE (Istanbul Univ.)_6163

Sharḥ al-Qānūnčah (Husayn b. Muḥ. ʿAstarābādī)_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Ayasofya_3676

Sharḥ al-Qānūnčah (Husayn b. Muḥ. ʿAstarābādī)_Istanbul_Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi_Ahmet III_1979

Sharḥ al-Qānūnčah (Husayn b. Muḥ. ʿAstarābādī)_Kütahya_Vahit Paşa Manuscript Library_Kütahya Vahitpaşa İl Halk Kütüphanesi_804

Sharḥ al-Qānūnčah (Husayn b. Muḥ. ʿAstarābādī)_London_British Library_IO Islamic_1810

Sharḥ al-Qānūnčah (Husayn b. Muḥ. ʿAstarābādī)_London_Wellcome Library_Asian Collection_WMS Arabic 132

Sharḥ al-Qānūnčah (Husayn b. Muḥ. ʿAstarābādī)_Oxford_Bodleian Library, Oxford Univ._MS. Arab._e. 178

Literature References

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P. 186.

Iskandar, A. 1967. A Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. London: The Wellcome Historical Medical Library.

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