Author
Avicenna, 980-1037.
Publication Date
1581
Subject
Medicine--Early works to 1800., Medicine., Medicine, Arab., Medicine, Medieval.
Type
Document
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
367 leaves : paper ; 318 x 220 (215 x 138) mm bound to 318 x 230 mm + 2 notes
Library
Penn Libraries
Library Asset ID
820002210
Record ID
9958643963503681
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Date
1581
Notes
Ms. codex., Title for manuscript and section titles supplied by cataloger., Collation: Paper, i (19th-century?) + 367; 46 gatherings alternating between 6 leaves and 10 leaves, with the last gathering lacking one leaf; [1-367], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchword on each leaf, lower left verso., Layout: Written in 31 long lines, with names of medicines and ailments written in the margins., Script: Written in naskh script, except for the final leaves written in nastaʻlīq script (f. 362r-367r)., Decoration: Significant words and phrases in red ink; names of medicines and ailments in red ink in the margins corresponding to words in red in the text., Binding: Possibly 19th-century Indian leather; stamped central mandorla with four pendants on the vertical axis all with green paper onlays; pink paper pastedowns., Origin: Copy of book III completed at the end of Ṣafar A.H. 989 (April 1581) (f. 235v). | Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative. | Arabic. | Possible ownership seal (f. 95r) and inscriptions (f. 1r)., 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
Books II (materia medica), III (diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries) of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. Some marginal notes, beginning in Book III, with more toward the end of the volume; 2 notes in Arabic laid in following f. 144 and f. 275; the last five leaves copied in a second hand.
Atıf Şekli
UPenn LJS 427.
Atıf Yapılan
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 81 (LJS 427).
İçerik
Adwiyah al-mufradah., Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah., Amrāḍ allatī lā takhuṣṣ bi-ʻuḍwin bi-ʻaynih., Adwiyah al-murakkabah., ادوية المفردة., امراض الجزئية., امراض التي لا تخص بعضو بعينه., ادوية المركبة.
Tür
Manuscripts, Arabic., Manuscripts, 16th century., Manuscripts, Renaissance., codices (bound manuscripts), treatises, Annotations (Provenance), Stamps (Provenance)
