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Subject(s)

• Medicine, Arab [Browse]
• Medicine, Medieval [Browse]
• Medicine—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Associated name

• Muḥammad ibn Abī Shujāʻ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Kātib [Browse]
• محمد بن ابي شجاع بن محمد بن علي الكاتب، [Browse]

Former owner

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J. [Browse]

Summary note

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.

Notes

• 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.
• Collation: Paper, 182; 1-18¹⁰ 19².
• Decoration: Headings and significant words and phrases in red ink; textblock outlined in ink.
• Layout: Written in 51 long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• 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).
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed; headings in slightly larger script.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
• Sold by Sam Fogg Limited (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 1999.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 81 (LJS 355).

Cite as

UPenn LJS 355.

Other title(s)

• Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah.
• امراض الجزئية.
• Amrāḍ allatī lā takhuṣṣ bi-ʻuḍwin bi-ʻaynih.
• امراض التي لا تخص بعضو بعينه.
• Adwiyah al-murakkabah.
• ادوية المركبة.

OCLC

819532887

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