SIGNED 'ABD AL-SALAM BIN MUHAMMAD BIN AHMAD KNOWN AS 'AMIN ALLAH AL-MUTATABIB AL-SADIQI AL-MURSHIDI, TIMURID IRAN, DATED FRIDAY 24 JUMADA I AH 898/13 MARCH 1493 AD

The Kitab al-Shifa is an encyclopaedia of philosophy and science comprising three sections subdivided into fanns. The first section is on logic, in nine fanns, the second on physics, in eight fanns, and the third on metaphysics. This celebrated work also includes such subjects as geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music. There are eight copies of this work, the earliest of which is dated AH 485/1092-93 AD (Or. 11190), in the British Library (see P. Stocks & C. F. Baker (eds.), Subject - Guide to the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library, London, 2001, p.196, G). There are also two copies in the John Rylands Library, Manchester (A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, 1934, pp.615-619, nos.378-379). For more information see C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur, Leiden 1943, I. p.454, Suppl. I. p.815).