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[Books III-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb]
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Avicenna, 980-1037.
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
- Standardized Title:
- Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Selections
- قانون في الطب. Selections
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine.
- Medicine, Arab.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, 15th century.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- treatises
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 1999.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
- Physical Description:
- 182 leaves : paper ; 322 x 222 (255 x 164) mm bound to 322 x 232 mm
- Other Title:
- امراض الجزئية.
- امراض التي لا تخص بعضو بعينه.
- ادوية المركبة.
- Place of Publication:
- [between 1400 and 1499?]
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- 15th-century copy of Books III (al-Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah, diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (al-Amrāḍ allatī lā takhuṣṣ bi-ʻuḍwin bi-ʻaynih, diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (al-Adwiyah al-murakkabah, compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries) from a 13th-century manuscript of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. The colophon of the 13th-century manuscript states that it was edited by Muḥammad ibn Abī Shujāʻ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Kātib. The paper is brittle from oxidation; some repairs have been made.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Collation: Paper, 182; 1-18¹⁰ 19².
- Layout: Written in 51 long lines.
- Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed; headings in slightly larger script.
- Decoration: Headings and significant words and phrases in red ink; textblock outlined in ink.
- Binding: Brown leather over board with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis; flap has coordinating stamp; plain paper doublure; rebound.
- Origin: Probably copied in the 15th century (based on the paper), from a source manuscript dated 9 Ramadan, A.H. 608 (1212 CE, f. 182r).
- 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. 81 (LJS 355).
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 355.
- Contains:
- Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah.
- Amrāḍ allatī lā takhuṣṣ bi-ʻuḍwin bi-ʻaynih.
- Adwiyah al-murakkabah.
- امراض الجزئية.
- امراض التي لا تخص بعضو بعينه.
- ادوية المركبة.
- OCLC:
- 819532887
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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