This is a comprehensive general medical encyclopaedia writen by the
Damascene physician Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 687AH/1288 CE). Although it
was projected by the author to encompass three hundred volumes when
completed with each volume consisting of approximately ninety-five
leaves, according to the biographical sources, only eighty of the
volumes were competed, of which only fragments survive.
The colophon tells us that the copy was completed 11 Rabī’ I 687
AH [15 Apr. 1288 CE] by ’Alī ibn Ibrahīm known as al-Ra’īm,
in the same year in which the author died on 21 Dhū al-Qa’dah
687AH [17 Dec. 1288 CE].
