[Books II-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb]

Name:

Avicenna, 980-1037

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1581

Description:

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.

Language:

Arabic

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.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs427.html; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000320

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 16th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance; codices (bound manuscripts); treatises; Annotations (Provenance); Stamps (Provenance); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

367 leaves : paper; 318 x 220 (215 x 138) mm bound to 318 x 230 mm + 2 notes

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title for manuscript and section titles supplied by cataloger.; Table of contents: 1. f.1v-56v: [Book II, al-Adwiyah al-mufradah] -- 2. f.57v-235v: [Book III, al-Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah] -- 3. f.236v-329r: [Book IV, Amrāḍ allatī lā takhuṣṣ bi-ʻuḍwin bi-ʻaynih] -- 4. f.329r-367r: [Book V, al-Adwiyah al-murakkabah]; 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.; Layout: Written in 31 long lines, with names of medicines and ailments written in the margins.; Script: Written in naskh script, except for the final leaves written in nastaʻlīq script (f. 362r-367r).; 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.; Binding: Possibly 19th-century Indian leather; stamped central mandorla with four pendants on the vertical axis all with green paper onlays; pink paper pastedowns.; Origin: Copy of book III completed at the end of Ṣafar A.H. 989 (April 1581) (f. 235v).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 427

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)