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[al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb].

Abstract:
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.
Creator:
Avicenna, 980-1037.
Date:
1100
Description:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
Identifier:
9958610763503681; (OCoLC)819418824; (OCoLC)ocn819418824; (PU)5861076-penndb-Voyager
Language:
Arabic; Hebrew
Provenance:
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2002.; Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
Publisher:
[Spain], [between 1100 and 1150]
Relation:
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs446.html
Subject:
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine, Medieval.; Medicine, Arab.; Medicine.; Codices (bound manuscripts); Treatises.; Early works.; Manuscripts, Arabic -- 12th century.; Manuscripts, Medieval.
Resource Type:
Manuscripts
Physical Description:
92 leaves : paper; 240 x 165 (190 x 120) mm
Personal Name:
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Corporate Name:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
Notes:
Origin: Likely copied in Spain, in Cordoba or Toledo, in the first half of the 12th century.; Decoration: Headings in ink that now appears purple; diagram of the sutures of the cranium (f. 14v).; Foliation: Paper, 92; [1-92], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.; Ms. codex.; 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).; Title supplied by cataloger.; Layout: Written in 25 long lines.; Arabic, with a few annotations in Hebrew (f. 50r-50v).
Physical Location:
LJS 446
Collection:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)