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Title

Fragments from Books III-V of Qānūn fī al-ṭibb.

Authors

• Avicenna, 980-1037
  ابن سينا

Other related names

• ʻAbduh, Muḥammad, former owner
  عبده، محمد،
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 322
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958611913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819424620
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5861191

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

12--?

Summary

Sections from Books III (al-Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah, diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (al-Amrāḍ allatī lā takhuṣṣu ʻuḍwan bi-ʻaynih, diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (al-Adwiyah al-murakkabah, compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries) of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. Many marginal notes trimmed; some later marginal notes run from the manuscript leaves onto their modern paper frames.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

71 leaves : 249 x 160 mm, mounted on modern paper 323 x 198 mm

Foliation

Paper, 71; [1-27, 28a, 29a, 30-71], modern foliation in pencil, upper center; earlier foliation in ink suggests the original manuscript was at least 251 leaves.

Support

Paper

Layout

Written in 40-41 long lines.

Script

Written in naskh in brown ink; unpointed, unvocalized; marginal notes in black or purple ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Muḥammad ʻAbduh (ownership stamp, possibly of Iranian or Turkish origin, f. 22r, 26r).
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Aug. 1999.
   
• 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
• Medicine
• Medicine, Arab
• Medicine, Medieval

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Gatherings (gathered matter components)
• Fragments (object portions)
• Treatises
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Early works

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