[Books III-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb]

Contributor:

Fārij al-Karab Yūsuf ibn Ḥusayn ibn Fayyāḍ al-ʻArab, active 1494 (scribe); Schoenberg, Lawrence J. (former owner)

Name:

Avicenna, 980-1037

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1494

Description:

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) of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. Extensive marginal notes on the first pages of the manuscript (f. 1v-3r), with frequent brief marginal notes in the rest of the manuscript. A somewhat later table of contents, arranged in a grid, has been added at the front of the volume (f. iii recto-xvii recto).

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 3 May 2001, lot 32, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs417.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/1017.12/100000312

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); Illuminations (painting); Encyclopedias; Treatises

Physical Description:

626 leaves : paper, illuminations; 316 x 173 (220 x 172) mm bound to 316 x 187 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Paper, xviii (later) + 598; [i-xviii, i], 1-540, [i], 541-596, foliation added in ink, perhaps at the same time as the table of contents, upper left recto; [i-xviii, 1-598], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.; Layout: Written in 29 long lines.; Script: Written in naskh script, in the hand of Fārij al-Karab Yūsuf ibn Ḥusayn ibn Fayyāḍ al-ʻArab (colophons, f. 356r, 489r, 541r, 598v) and also perhaps another hand (f. 1v-541r, 542v-598v).; Decoration: 2 illuminated headpieces, the first rubbed (f. 1v, 542v), and space left open for another headpiece (f. 357v); overlining, a few significant words and phrases, and simple ornamentation around colophons (f. 356r, 489r, 541r) in red ink in first section of manuscript (f. 1v-541r); much less overlining and more words and phrases in red in second section of manuscript (f. 542v-598v); some marginal notes in red, sometimes corresponding to overlined words or words in red in the main text; text block outlined with several narrow ink lines on the first 2 pages (f. 1v-2r); later table of contents in black and red (f. iii recto-xvii recto).; Binding: Composite leather, front and back covers are different colors with different style stamps; blind-stamped central medallion with two pendants on the vertical axis; bright red leather spine and edges; endbands in bright blue and pink; paper label with title Kitāb al-Qānūn in ink on upper cover.; Origin: Written in A.H. 899-904 (1494-1498, colophons, f. 356r, 489r, 541r, 598v).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 417

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)