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Title

Ḥall al-Mūjiz.
حل الموجز

Authors

• Aqsarāʼī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 14th century
  اقسرائي، محمد بن محمد،

Other related names

• Astarābādī, ʻAlī ibn Kamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd, scribe
  استرابادي، علي بن كمال الدين محمود،
• ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Qāṭin, active 1698, former owner
  عبد الفتاح القاطن،
• Ismāʻīl ibn al-Ḥājj ʻĪsá Jurayj al-Muhannā, active 1781, former owner
  اسماعيل بن الحاج عيسى جريج المهنى،
• ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī, active 1824, former owner
  عبد الله الاسطواني،
• al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī, active 1846, former owner
  الحاج عبد القادر بن السيد عبد الله الاسطواني،

Call number

LJS 444
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959031653503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/827697845
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5903165

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 884 (1480)

Summary

Commentary on the epitome (Mūjiz) by Ibn al-Nafīs of Avicenna's Canon on medicine (Qānūn fī al-ṭibb). Notes laid in after f. 142, 222.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from added title (f. 1r).
   
• Readers' notes dated 986 A.H. (1578 or 1579) (third front flyleaf verso); owners' stamps (front flyleaf 2 recto, f. 1r, 240v).
   

Extent

246 leaves : mm bound to mm +

Foliation

Paper, 246 + i (18th-century?) ; [i-v, 1], 2-240, [241]; contemporary foliation in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (late 15th-century) pasteboards, remnant of 17th-century cloth spine, covers detached.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines with marginal notes (except on replacement leaves, f. 63-64, 125-130, 157-162, 173-178).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Qāṭin, Tabriz, 1110 A.H. (1698 or 1699) (note, front flyleaf 1 recto).
   
• Formerly owned by Ismāʻīl ibn al-Ḥājj ʻĪsá Jurayj al-Muhannā, Rabi II A.H. 1195 (March-April 1781, inscription on front pastedown).
   
• Formerly owned by ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī, A.H. 1239/1240 (1824 or 1825) (note, front flyleaf 1 recto, f. 240v).
   
• Formerly owned by al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī, 1262 A.H. (1846) (note, front flyleaf 1 recto).
   
• Sold at auction at Bonhams & Butterfields, 14 Nov. 2002, lot 3001, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries
• Diagrams
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Marginalia (annotations)
• Early works

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