Author
Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, -1013?, author.
Publication Date
1464
Publication Place
A.H. 869 (1464) -
Subject
Surgical instruments and apparatus., Surgery--Early works to 1800., Surgery., Surgical instruments and apparatus--Early works to 1800., Medicine, Arab.
Type
Document
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
108 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 177 x 125 (135 x 90) mm bound to 177 x 140 mm
Library
Penn Libraries
Library Asset ID
785430346
Record ID
9948288963503681
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Date
1464
Notes
Ms. codex., Title from colophon (f. 107v)., Collation: Paper, 108; 1¹² 2⁸ 3¹² 4⁴ 5⁸ 6¹² 7⁸ 8¹² 9⁸ 10-11¹²; [1-85, i, 86-107]; modern foliation in pencil, upper center recto. Catchword on each leaf, lower left verso., Layout: Written in 19 long lines., Script: Written in naskh script in black ink in two hands; partially pointed, further points added by a later hand., Decoration: Numerous illustrations of surgical instruments in black or black and red ink; rubrications in red., Binding: Bound in light brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla, border and foliate frame; plain paper doublure., Origin: Copy completed in A.H. 869 (1464). | Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative. | Arabic. | Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 2 Apr. 2002, lot 23, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Sample Text
Portions of a treatise on surgery. Parts of the second chapter and all of the third chapter of the 3-chapter treatise, which is the last of the 30 treatises in the Taṣrīf li-man ʻajiza ʻan al-taʼlīf, a larger work by al-Zahrāwī. Topics in the manuscript include incision, perforation, blood-letting, wounds, bone-setting, dislocations, and sprains. Contemporary corrections in margins; additional notes in a maghribi script also in margins.
Atıf Şekli
Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, Maqālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-yad (LJS 435). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
Atıf Yapılan
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 87-88 (LJS 435).
Tür
Manuscripts, Arabic., Manuscripts, 15th century., Manuscripts, Renaissance., codices (bound manuscripts), treatises, drawings (visual works), annotations, Early works.
Hakkında Yayınlar
Käs, Fabian, "Medical instruments" in Sonja Brentjes, ed., Routledge handbook on the sciences in Islamicate societies: practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th centuries (New York: Routledge, 2022), p. 505 (fig. IV.4.2)., Bos, Gerrit and Fabian Käs, "Al-Zahrāwī and his medical handbook," in Antonio Vallejo Triano and Eduardo Manzano Moreno, eds., Madinat Al-Zahra: the radiant capital of Islamic Spain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025), pp. 183 (figs. 14-1 and 14-2) and 186.
