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Title

al-Kullīyāt.
[الكليات]

Authors

• Avicenna, 980-1037
  ابن سينا،

Other related names

• Shāh ʻAlāʼī, Muṣṭafá, former owner
  شاه علائى، مصطفى،
• Qājār, Manūchihr Nukhastīn Āṣaf, former owner
  قاجار، منوچهر نخستين آصف،
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 426
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958617143503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819546307
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5861714

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1375 and 1399?

Place

Iran?

Summary

First book of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia, comprising an introduction to general knowledge of medicine, anatomy, temperament, and the effect of environment on health and disease. Frequent marginal annotations, some affected by trimming. The first 40 leaves and the last 10 are later replacements.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

321 leaves : 200-202 x 115 (140-145 x 70) mm. bound to 202 x 125 mm

Foliation

Paper, 321; [1-321], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Contemporary foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink (50-80) visible on upper right verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Plain black leather over pasteboard.

Layout

Written in 15-18 long lines.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, by multiple hands; beginning and end (f. 1-40, 310-321) of manuscript written on replacement leaves by a later hand in a narrower version of the script.

Provenance

• Ownership stamps, probably 19th century, in Persian: a rectangle in purple ink with the name Muṣṭafá Shāh ʻAlāʼī and the title Qānūn added by hand (f. 1r), and a ring in red ink with the name Manūchihr Nukhastīn Āṣaf Qājār (f. 1r, 109r, 228r, 278r, 321r).
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Oct. 2001.
   
• 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--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Annotations
• Treatises
• Early works

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