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

Title

al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb.
[القانون في الطب]

Authors

• Avicenna, 980-1037
  ابن سينا،

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 446
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958610763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819418824
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs446.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic, with a few annotations in Hebrew (f. 50r-50v)

Origin

Date

between 1100 and 1150

Place

Spain

Summary

Sections from Book I of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Some leaves missing at the beginning; the first full chapter (fann 1, doctrina 3, chapter 1) is entitled: amzijat al-aʻḍāʼ and the manuscript ends near the beginning of fann 4, chapter 3. One leaf has 13th-century marginal transliterations into Hebrew of Arabic terms in the text (f. 50r-50v); other marginal notes in Arabic throughout. Worm damage, stains, and tears in margins throughout; two loose folia that belong to the beginning and end of the manuscript.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

92 leaves : 240 x 165 (190 x 120) mm

Foliation

Paper, 92; [1-92], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Layout

Written in 25 long lines.

Decoration

Headings in ink that now appears purple; diagram of the sutures of the cranium (f. 14v).

Script

Written in maghribi script in brown ink, with a slightly larger script used for headings; a few marginal transliterations written in 13th-century Spanish sephardi cursive script (Sam Fogg).

Provenance

• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2002.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Arab
• Medicine, Medieval
• Medicine
• Medicine, Arab
• Medicine, Medieval

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--12th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Treatises
• Early works

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — [al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb]

Decorations

• fol. 50r — Hebrew gloss
• fol. 50v — Hebrew gloss