# Wellcome Collection holds and publishes MS Arabic 155, a complete 1632 Isfahan Canon

Date: 1632

## The fact

Wellcome MS Arabic 155 is a complete Canon transcribed at Isfahan in 1632 and now a public-domain work page with images. The dated object is the 1632 copy; the public carrier is the Wellcome Collection record. [Avicenna](/people/avicenna) did not copy Isfahan. A complete Arabic witness in a public library is an access path.

## Context

The row stores the readable complete copy.

Avicenna is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

The named official or archival page and the independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Wellcome Collection — MS Arabic 155, complete Canon (Isfahan 1632) (https://wellcomecollection.org/works/wuwth5sx; Wellcome Collection).

## Significance

A public complete Arabic Canon is a scholarly access path, not a 1025 autograph.

A public complete Arabic Canon is a scholarly access path, not a 1025 autograph.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Avicenna: https://factrail.ai/people/avicenna

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://wellcomecollection.org/works/wuwth5sx
- https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/islamic_medical/islamic_07.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/av-wellcome-ms-arabic-155