[Books III-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb]

Contributor:

Muḥammad ibn Abī Shujāʻ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Kātib (associated name)

Name:

Avicenna, 980-1037

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1400

Description:

15th-century copy of Books III (al-Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah, diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (al-Amrāḍ allatī lā takhuṣṣ bi-ʻuḍwin bi-ʻaynih, diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (al-Adwiyah al-murakkabah, compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries) from a 13th-century manuscript of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. The colophon of the 13th-century manuscript states that it was edited by Muḥammad ibn Abī Shujāʻ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Kātib. The paper is brittle from oxidation; some repairs have been made.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 1999.; 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/ljs355.html; Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000272

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 15th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Codices (bound manuscripts); Treatises; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

182 leaves : paper; 322 x 222 (255 x 164) mm bound to 322 x 232 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Paper, 182; 1-18¹⁰ 19².; Layout: Written in 51 long lines.; Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed; headings in slightly larger script.; Decoration: Headings and significant words and phrases in red ink; textblock outlined in ink.; Binding: Brown leather over board with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis; flap has coordinating stamp; plain paper doublure; rebound.; Origin: Probably copied in the 15th century (based on the paper), from a source manuscript dated 9 Ramadan, A.H. 608 (1212 CE, f. 182r).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 355

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)