Author
Avicenna, 980-1037.
Publication Date
1375
Publication Place
[Iran?], [between 1375 and 1399?] -
Subject
Medicine--Early works to 1800., Medicine., Medicine, Arab., Medicine, Medieval.
Type
Document
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
321 leaves : paper ; 200-202 x 115 (140-145 x 70) mm bound to 202 x 125 mm
Library
Penn Libraries
Library Asset ID
819546307
Record ID
9958617143503681
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Date
1375
Notes
Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloger., Foliation: Paper, 321; [1-321], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Contemporary foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink (50-80) visible on upper right verso., Layout: Written in 15-18 long lines., Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, by multiple hands; beginning and end (f. 1-40, 310-321) of manuscript written on replacement leaves by a later hand in a narrower version of the script., Decoration: Headings and significant words and phrases written or overlined in red ink., Binding: Plain black leather over pasteboard., Origin: Item is undated, but based on the paper, probably copied in Persia in the late 14th century. | Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative. | Arabic. | Ownership stamps, probably 19th century, in Persian: a rectangle in purple ink with the name Muṣṭafá Shāh ʻAlāʼī and the title Qānūn added by hand (f. 1r), and a ring in red ink with the name Manūchihr Nukhastīn Āṣaf Qājār (f. 1r, 109r, 228r, 278r, 321r)., Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Oct. 2001., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Sample Text
First book of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia, comprising an introduction to general knowledge of medicine, anatomy, temperament, and the effect of environment on health and disease. Frequent marginal annotations, some affected by trimming. The first 40 leaves and the last 10 are later replacements.
Atıf Şekli
UPenn LJS 426.
Atıf Yapılan
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 81 (LJS 426).
Tür
Manuscripts, Arabic., Manuscripts, Medieval., Manuscripts, Renaissance., codices (bound manuscripts), annotations, treatises, Early works.
