Details

Subject(s)

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

Former owner

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J. [Browse]

Summary note

Sections from Book I of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Some leaves missing at the beginning; the first full chapter (fann 1, doctrina 3, chapter 1) is entitled: amzijat al-aʻḍāʼ and the manuscript ends near the beginning of fann 4, chapter 3. One leaf has 13th-century marginal transliterations into Hebrew of Arabic terms in the text (f. 50r-50v); other marginal notes in Arabic throughout. Worm damage, stains, and tears in margins throughout; two loose folia that belong to the beginning and end of the manuscript.

Notes

• Decoration: Headings in ink that now appears purple; diagram of the sutures of the cranium (f. 14v).
• Foliation: Paper, 92; [1-92], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
• Layout: Written in 25 long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Likely copied in Spain, in Cordoba or Toledo, in the first half of the 12th century.
• Script: Written in maghribi script in brown ink, with a slightly larger script used for headings; a few marginal transliterations written in 13th-century Spanish Sephardi cursive script (Sam Fogg).
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic, with a few annotations in Hebrew (f. 50r-50v).

Provenance

• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
• Sold by Sam Fogg Limited (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2002.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 80 (LJS 446).

Cite as

UPenn LJS 446.

OCLC

819418824

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