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Title

Books II-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb.

Authors

• Avicenna, 980-1037
  ابن سينا،

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 427
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958643963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820002210
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs427.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5864396

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 989 (1581)

Place

Persia?

Summary

Books II (materia medica), III (diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries) of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. Some marginal notes, beginning in Book III, with more toward the end of the volume; 2 notes in Arabic laid in following f. 144 and f. 275; the last five leaves copied in a second hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript and section titles supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

367 leaves : 318 x 220 (215 x 138) mm. bound to 318 x 230 mm. +

Collation

Paper, i (19th-century?) + 367; 46 gatherings alternating between 6 leaves and 10 leaves, with the last gathering lacking one leaf; [1-367], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchword on each leaf, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Possibly 19th-century Indian leather; stamped central mandorla with four pendants on the vertical axis all with green paper onlays; pink paper pastedowns.

Layout

Written in 31 long lines, with names of medicines and ailments written in the margins.

Decoration

Significant words and phrases in red ink; names of medicines and ailments in red ink in the margins corresponding to words in red in the text.

Script

Written in naskh script, except for the final leaves written in nastaʻlīq script (f. 362r-367r).

Provenance

• Possible ownership seal (f. 95r) and inscriptions (f. 1r).
   
• 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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Treatises
• Onlays (decorative components)
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Book II, al-Adwiyah al-mufradah, f. 1v
• fol. 57v — Book III, al-Amra?d? al-juz?i?yah, f. 57v
• fol. 236v — Book IV, Kita?b al-Amra?d? al-lati? la takhas? bi-?ud?wi?n bi-?aynih, f. 236v
• fol. 329r — Book V, Kita?b al-Adwiyah al-murakkabah, f. 329r

Decorations

• fol. 95r — Stamp, f. 95r