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Title

Books III-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb

Authors

• Avicenna, 980-1037
  ابن سينا،

Other related names

• Fārij al-Karab Yūsuf ibn Ḥusayn ibn Fayyāḍ al-ʻArab, active 1494, scribe
  فارج الكرب يوسف بن حسين بن فياض العرب،
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 417
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958645723503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820028081
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs417.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5864572

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 899-904 (1494-1498)

Summary

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) of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. Extensive marginal notes on the first pages of the manuscript (f. 1v-3r), with frequent brief marginal notes in the rest of the manuscript. A somewhat later table of contents, arranged in a grid, has been added at the front of the volume (f. iii recto-xvii recto).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

626 leaves : 316 x 173 (220 x 172) mm. bound to 316 x 187 mm

Foliation

Paper, xviii (later) + 598; [i-xviii, i], 1-540, [i], 541-596, foliation added in ink, perhaps at the same time as the table of contents, upper left recto; [i-xviii, 1-598], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Composite leather, front and back covers are different colors with different style stamps; blind-stamped central medallion with two pendants on the vertical axis; bright red leather spine and edges; endbands in bright blue and pink; paper label with title Kitāb al-Qānūn in ink on upper cover.

Layout

Written in 29 long lines.

Decoration

2 illuminated headpieces, the first rubbed (f. 1v, 542v), and space left open for another headpiece (f. 357v); overlining, a few significant words and phrases, and simple ornamentation around colophons (f. 356r, 489r, 541r) in red ink in first section of manuscript (f. 1v-541r); much less overlining and more words and phrases in red in second section of manuscript (f. 542v-598v); some marginal notes in red, sometimes corresponding to overlined words or words in red in the main text; text block outlined with several narrow ink lines on the first 2 pages (f. 1v-2r); later table of contents in black and red (f. iii recto-xvii recto).

Script

Written in naskh script, in the hand of Fārij al-Karab Yūsuf ibn Ḥusayn ibn Fayyāḍ al-ʻArab (colophons, f. 356r, 489r, 541r, 598v) and also perhaps another hand (f. 1v-541r, 542v-598v).

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 3 May 2001, lot 32, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Arab
• Medicine, Medieval

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Encyclopedias
• Treatises

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece, f. 1v
• fol. 542v — Illuminated headpiece, f. 542v