Z̲akhīrah-ʹi Khvārazmshāhī; ذخيره‌ خوارزم‌شاهى

Contributor:

Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad, Shah of Khwarazm, 1097-1127 (dedicatee); Stanitz, John D. (former owner); Schoenberg, Lawrence J. (former owner); Hagop Kevorkian Fund (former owner)

Name:

Jurjānī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan, 1042 or 1043-1136 or 1137

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1300

Description:

Medical encyclopedia in 9 books, with discussions of physiology, anatomy, pathology, diagnosis, fevers, specific diseases, surgery, fractures, poisons, and antidotes. Includes indexes, although some leaves are missing. Most leaves re-margined with pink paper; a few leaves have original margins and extensive marginal notes or commentary (f. 255v-261r).

Language:

Persian

Provenance:

Ownership stamp dated 1186? (1772-1773 CE) with inscription in ink (f. 1r); Persian customs stamp dated 1342 (f. 1r, 352v).; Formerly owned by the Hagop Kevorkian Fund; offered for sale at auction at Sotheby's (London) in a sale of property of the Hagop Kevorkian Fund, 2 May 1977, lot 163, unsold.; Sold at auction at Sotheby's with other Hagop Kevorkian Fund materials, 27 April 1981, lot 108.; Appears in H.P. Kraus's catalog 186 (1991), no. 173.; Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 20.; Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, September 1997.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs189.html; Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1333435; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

Medicine, Persian; Medicine, Persian -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Persian; Manuscripts, 14th century; Manuscripts, Medieval; Codices (bound manuscripts); Encyclopedias; Illuminations (painting); Miniatures (paintings); Illuminations

Physical Description:

352 leaves : paper, illustrations, illuminations; 395 x 317 (278 x 230) mm bound to 400 x 322 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from colophon (f. 352v) and beginning and end of each book.; Foliation: Paper, ii + 352 + ii; [1-352]; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords added after re-margination, lower left verso.; Layout: Written in 33 long lines; ruled in blind.; Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. 14 replacement folios written in a second hand.; Decoration: Illuminated text divider (f. 62v, 125v); illuminated circular medallion (f. 125r), miniature of a couple sitting under a tree (f. 214v); text block outlined in red; rubrics in red.; Binding: 18th-century blind-stamped reddish-brown leather remnants laid down on the same color leather over boards; marbled paper pastedowns.; Origin: The item is undated, probably copied in Persia in the 14th century.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Persian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 189

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)