[al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb].
[القانون في الطب].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Avicenna, 980-1037.

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Kitāb 1. Selections

قانون في الطب. كتاب 1. Selections http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013006910

Language:

Arabic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Medicine, Arab.

Medicine, Medieval.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic -- 12th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2002.

Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.

Physical Description:

92 leaves : paper ; 240 x 165 (190 x 120) mm

Place of Publication:

[Spain], [between 1100 and 1150]

Language Note:

Arabic, with a few annotations in Hebrew (f. 50r-50v).

Summary:

Sections from Book I of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Some leaves missing at the beginning; the first full chapter (fann 1, doctrina 3, chapter 1) is entitled: amzijat al-aʻḍāʼ and the manuscript ends near the beginning of fann 4, chapter 3. One leaf has 13th-century marginal transliterations into Hebrew of Arabic terms in the text (f. 50r-50v); other marginal notes in Arabic throughout. Worm damage, stains, and tears in margins throughout; two loose folia that belong to the beginning and end of the manuscript.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 92; [1-92], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Layout: Written in 25 long lines.

Script: Written in maghribi script in brown ink, with a slightly larger script used for headings; a few marginal transliterations written in 13th-century Spanish Sephardi cursive script (Sam Fogg).

Decoration: Headings in ink that now appears purple; diagram of the sutures of the cranium (f. 14v).

Origin: Likely copied in Spain, in Cordoba or Toledo, in the first half of the 12th century.

Local Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 80 (LJS 446).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 446.

OCLC:

819418824

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page