Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Books III-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb

Authors

• Avicenna, 980-1037
  ابن سينا،

Other related names

• Muḥammad ibn Abī Shujāʻ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Kātib, associated name
  محمد بن ابي شجاع بن محمد بن علي الكاتب،
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 355
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958615963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819532887
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5861596 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3sx64h3j http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1400 and 1499?

Summary

15th-century copy of 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) from a 13th-century manuscript of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. The colophon of the 13th-century manuscript states that it was edited by Muḥammad ibn Abī Shujāʻ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Kātib. The paper is brittle from oxidation; some repairs have been made.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

182 leaves : 322 x 222 (255 x 164) mm. bound to 322 x 232 mm

Collation

Paper, 182; 1-18¹⁰ 19².

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over board with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis; flap has coordinating stamp; plain paper doublure; rebound.

Layout

Written in 51 long lines.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed; headings in slightly larger script.

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 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
• Manuscripts, 15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Treatises
• Early works

Licenses

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