Author
Ṣubunrī, Mahdī ibn 'Alī, -approximately 1412 or 1413.
Publication Date
1830
Publication Place
between 1830 and 1940., between 1830 and 1940. -
Subject
Medicine., Medicine, Arab., Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Type
Document
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
1 volume (86 leaves) : paper ; 202 x 140 mm
Library
Penn Libraries
Library Asset ID
879325629
Record ID
9961969083503681
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Date
1830
Notes
Probably written in Morocco, in Maghribi script by a single hand; catchwords., First work written in orange, red, and blue ink as well as black; significant words and phrases in red in the rest of the manuscript., Modern leather binding (Type 3). | Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund. | In Arabic. | Sold as part of the Fez Lithographs Collection by Fawzi Abdulrazak (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 2013.
Sample Text
Collection of seven medical works, mostly treatises but also including a qaṣīdah describing medical treatments (Work 2) and a work presented as a historical account concerning medical treatments (Work 3). The first work is an herbal by al-Mahdī ibn ʻAlī al-Ṣubunrī (whose name is recorded in the text as al-Mahdī Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣanbarī), which comprises nearly half the manuscript; the other works are unattributed. All works collated except the third.
Atıf Şekli
UPenn Ms. Coll. 960, Item 6.
Atıf Yapılan
Listed in the Fez Lithographs Collection Handlist, H. 115.
İçerdiği
Collection of Fez Manuscripts. Item 6
Tür
codices (bound manuscripts), treatises, herbals (reference sources), Manuscripts, Arabic., Manuscripts.
