Details

Subject(s)

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

Former owner

• ʻAbduh, Muḥammad [Browse]
• عبده، محمد، [Browse]
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J. [Browse]

Summary note

Sections from Books III (al-Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah, diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (al-Amrāḍ allatī lā takhuṣṣu ʻuḍwan bi-ʻaynih, diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (al-Adwiyah al-murakkabah, compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries) of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. Many marginal notes trimmed; some later marginal notes run from the manuscript leaves onto their modern paper frames.

Notes

• Decoration: Chapter titles, headings, and significant words or phrases in red ink.
• Foliation: Paper, 71; [1-27, 28a, 29a, 30-71], modern foliation in pencil, upper center; earlier foliation in ink suggests the original manuscript was at least 251 leaves.
• Layout: Written in 40-41 long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Item is undated; possibly written in the 13th century.
• Script: Written in naskh in brown ink; unpointed, unvocalized; marginal notes in black or purple ink; pointed.
• 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.
• Formerly owned by Muḥammad ʻAbduh (ownership stamp, possibly of Iranian or Turkish origin, f. 22r, 26r).
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
• Sold by Sam Fogg Limited (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Aug. 1999.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 81 (LJS 322).

Cite as

UPenn Oversize LJS 322.

OCLC

819424620

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