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Reference number: 
Ar. 479 - 1
Obverse: 
Ar. 479 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0909844dc
Image Title: 
Canon of Medicine
Subject: 
Medicine
Creator: 
Avicenna (980-1037)
Creator Role: 
Author
Source title: 
Al-Qanun fi'l-Tibb
Translated source title: 
The Canon of Medicine
Section: 
Book III, Section/Fann 6
Citation reference: 
Baghdad: Maktabat al-Muthanna, 1970 edition, vol. 2, cf. pp. 180.21-2 (lines 1-2), 181.7 (line 3)
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Arabic
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
100 mm
Item width: 
106 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink (black and red)
Interrelation fragments: 
Ar. 479 and Ar. 481 from same manuscript; see also Ar. 188
Notes: 
6 lines. Text partially faded. Apparently, a few quotes from the sixth section on the mouth and tongue in the third book on particular diseases. Could this be a table of contents? Titles of chapters/fasls written in red ink.
Discovery site: 
Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
Current repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository: 
Moses Gaster
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Fragments
Image rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access rights: 
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number: 
PAR00479-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by JRUL Imaging Services
Date image captured: 
2009-02-09
Date: added: 
2009-11
Metadata language: 
eng-GB