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Title

Maqālah fī khalq al-insān.
مقالة في خلق الانسان

Authors

• Saʻīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn, 1004-1101
  سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين

Other related names

• ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Ṣafūrī, scribe
  عبد الرحمن بن عبد السلام الصفوري,
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 398
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958945863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/826025151
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5894586

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 689 (1290)

Place

Syria or Iraq

Summary

Medical treatise in 50 chapters, 35 concerning reproduction and the final 15 addressing the soul and intellect from a neoplatonic perspective. Some marginal notes. Persian inscriptions recording births in A.H. 1236, 1243, and 1245 on the last page (f. 84v), suggesting use of the manuscript by a medical practitioner.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   

Extent

84 leaves : 255 x 172 (185 x 125-130) mm. bound to 257 x 182 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern) + 84 + i (modern); [1-84], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto (f. 1-44 also foliated with eastern Arabic numerals in ink, upper left recto). Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Later morocco with gilt-stamped onlays of a central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in rapid naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Several notes and ownership seals on first and last pages (f. 1r, 84v).
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2000.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Arabic--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner stamp, f. 1r
• fol. 84v — Owner stamp, f. 84v