Maqālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-yad; مقالة في العمل باليد

Name:

Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, -1013?

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1464

Description:

Portions of a treatise on surgery. Parts of the second chapter and all of the third chapter of the 3-chapter treatise, which is the last of the 30 treatises in the Taṣrīf li-man ʻajiza ʻan al-taʼlīf, a larger work by al-Zahrāwī. Topics in the manuscript include incision, perforation, blood-letting, wounds, bone-setting, dislocations, and sprains. Contemporary corrections in margins; additional notes in a maghribi script also in margins.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 2 Apr. 2002, lot 23, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; 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/ljs435.html; Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000325

Subject:

Surgical instruments and apparatus; Surgery -- Early works to 1800; Surgery; Surgical instruments and apparatus -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Arab

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 15th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Codices (bound manuscripts); Treatises; Drawings (visual works); Annotations; Early works; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

108 leaves : paper, illustrations; 177 x 125 (135 x 90) mm bound to 177 x 140 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from colophon (f. 107v).; Collation: Paper, 108; 1¹² 2⁸ 3¹² 4⁴ 5⁸ 6¹² 7⁸ 8¹² 9⁸ 10-11¹²; [1-85, i, 86-107]; modern foliation in pencil, upper center recto. Catchword on each leaf, lower left verso.; Layout: Written in 19 long lines.; Script: Written in naskh script in black ink in two hands; partially pointed, further points added by a later hand.; Decoration: Numerous illustrations of surgical instruments in black or black and red ink; rubrications in red.; Binding: Bound in light brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla, border and foliate frame; plain paper doublure.; Origin: Copy completed in A.H. 869 (1464).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 435

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)