Maqālah fī khalq al-insān; مقالة في خلق الانسان

Alternate Title:

Khalq al-insān.

Contributor:

ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Ṣafūrī (scribe)

Name:

Saʻīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn, 1044-1101

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1290

Description:

Medical treatise in 50 chapters, 35 concerning reproduction and the final 15 addressing the soul and intellect from a neoplatonic perspective. Some marginal notes. Persian inscriptions recording births in A.H. 1236, 1243, and 1245 on the last page (f. 84v), suggesting use of the manuscript by a medical practitioner.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Several notes and ownership seals on first and last pages (f. 1r, 84v).; Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2000.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs398.html; Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000299

Subject:

Reproduction; Medicine -- Early works to 1800; Medicine; Medicine, Arab; Reproduction -- Early works to 1800; Soul -- Early works to 1800; Soul

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); treatises; Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, Medieval; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

84 leaves : paper; 255 x 172 (185 x 125-130) mm bound to 257 x 182 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from introduction (f. 1v).; Foliation: Paper, i (modern) + 84 + i (modern); [1-84], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto (f. 1-44 also foliated with eastern Arabic numerals in ink, upper left recto). Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.; Layout: Written in 21 long lines.; Script: Written in rapid naskh in black ink; pointed.; Decoration: Rubrications in red.; Binding: Later morocco with gilt-stamped onlays of a central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces.; Origin: Copy completed in Mamluk Syria or Iraq by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Ṣafūrī on 15 Jumādá al-Ākhirah A.H. 689 (colophon, f. 84r).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 398

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)