Oversize LJS 189 Z̲akhīrah-ʹi Khvārazmshāhī. / ذخيره خوارزمشاهى
Title
Z̲akhīrah-ʹi Khvārazmshāhī.ذخيره خوارزمشاهى
Authors
- Jurjānī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan, 1042 or 1043-1136 or 1137
جرجاني، اسماعيل بن حسن،
Other related names
- Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad, Shah of Khwarazm, 1097-1127, dedicatee
قطب الدين محمد، - Stanitz, John D, former owner
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner
- Hagop Kevorkian Fund, former owner
Call number
Oversize LJS 189(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)
Alternate identifiers
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
PersianOrigin
The item is undated, probably copied in Persia in the 14th century.
- Date
- between 1300 and 1399?
- Place
-
Persia?
Summary
Medical encyclopedia in 9 books, with discussions of physiology, anatomy, pathology, diagnosis, fevers, specific diseases, surgery, fractures, poisons, and antidotes. Includes indexes, although some leaves are missing. Most leaves re-margined with pink paper; a few leaves have original margins and extensive marginal notes or commentary (f. 255v-261r).
Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from colophon (f. 352v) and beginning and end of each book.
Extent
352 leaves : 395 x 317 (278 x 230) mm bound to 400 x 322 mmFoliation
Paper, ii + 352 + ii; [1-352]; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords added after re-margination, lower left verso.Support
PaperBinding
18th-century blind-stamped reddish-brown leather remnants laid down on the same color leather over boards; marbled paper pastedowns.Layout
Decoration
Illuminated text divider (f. 62v, 125v); illuminated circular medallion (f. 125r), miniature of a couple sitting under a tree (f. 214v); text block outlined in red; rubrics in red.
Script
Provenance
- Ownership stamp dated 1186? (1772-1773 CE) with inscription in ink (f. 1r); Persian customs stamp dated 1342 (f. 1r, 352v).
- Formerly owned by the Hagop Kevorkian Fund; sold at auction at Sotheby's with other Kevorkian materials, 27 Apr. 1981, lot 108.
- Appears in H.P. Kraus's catalog 186 (1991), no. 173.
- Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 20.
- Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Subjects topical
- Medicine, Persian--Early works to 1800
Genres
- Manuscripts, Persian
- Manuscripts, 14th century
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
- Encyclopedias
- Illuminations (painting)
- Miniatures (paintings)
- Illuminations
Licenses
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Decoration: Illuminated border, f. 62v

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Decoration: Illuminated shamsa, f. 125r

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Decoration: Illuminated border, f. 125v

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Decoration: Illuminated miniature, f. 214v

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