[al-Kullīyāt].
[الكليات].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Avicenna, 980-1037.

Contributor:

Shāh ʻAlāʼī, Muṣṭafá, former owner.

Qājār, Manūchihr Nukhastīn Āṣaf, former owner.

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

شاه علائى، مصطفى،, former owner.

قاجار، منوچهر نخستين آصف،, former owner.

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 -- 14th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

codices (bound manuscripts)

annotations

treatises

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

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, October 2001.

Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Physical Description:

321 leaves : paper ; 200-202 x 115 (140-145 x 70) mm bound to 202 x 125 mm

Place of Publication:

[Iran?], [between 1375 and 1399?]

Language Note:

Arabic, with some marginal notes in Persian.

Summary:

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.

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 and some marginal notes in Persian, probably copied in Persia in the late 14th century; the replacement leaves, on paper with chain lines, may be from the early 15th 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. 81 (LJS 426).

Cited as:

Avicenna, al-Kullīyāt (LJS 426). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

819546307

Online:

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