Kitāb al-Raḥmah fī al-ṭibb wa-al-ḥikmah, between 1830 and 1940.

Abstract:

Collection of seven medical works, mostly treatises but also including a qaṣīdah describing medical treatments (Work 2) and a work presented as a historical account concerning medical treatments (Work 3). The first work is an herbal by al-Mahdī ibn ʻAlī al-Ṣubunrī (whose name is recorded in the text as al-Mahdī Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣanbarī), which comprises nearly half the manuscript; the other works are unattributed. All works collated except the third.

Creator:

Ṣubunrī, Mahdī ibn ʻAlī, -approximately 1412 or 1413.

Date:

1830

Description:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund.

Identifier:

9961969083503681; (OCoLC)ocn879325629; (PUVoyagerBIBID)6196908; 6196908; (OCoLC)879325629; (PU)6196908-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Sold as part of the Fez Lithographs Collection by Fawzi Abdulrazak (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 2013.

Relation:

al-Kalām ʻalá al-ṭabāʼiʻ al-arbaʻah al-murakkabah fī al-insān.; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscoll960_item6.html; http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366196

Subject:

Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.; Medicine, Arab.; Medicine.; Manuscripts.; Herbals (reference sources); Manuscripts, Arabic.; Codices (bound manuscripts); Treatises.

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 volume (86 leaves) : paper; 202 x 140 mm

Personal Name:

Abdulrazak, Fawzi, former owner.

Corporate Name:

Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund.; Fez Lithographs Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

First work written in orange, red, and blue ink as well as black; significant words and phrases in red in the rest of the manuscript.; Probably written in Morocco, in Maghribi script by a single hand; catchwords.; Modern leather binding (Type 3).; In Arabic.

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 960

Collection:

Collection of Fez Manuscripts.; Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund.