Details

Subject(s)

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

Former owner

• Shāh ʻAlāʼī, Muṣṭafá [Browse]
• شاه علائى، مصطفى، [Browse]
• Qājār, Manūchihr Nukhastīn Āṣaf [Browse]
• قاجار، منوچهر نخستين آصف، [Browse]
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J. [Browse]

Summary note

First book of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia, comprising an introduction to general knowledge of medicine, anatomy, temperament, and the effect of environment on health and disease. Frequent marginal annotations, some affected by trimming. The first 40 leaves and the last 10 are later replacements.

Notes

• Binding: Plain black leather over pasteboard.
• Decoration: Headings and significant words and phrases written or overlined in red ink.
• Foliation: Paper, 321; [1-321], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Contemporary foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink (50-80) visible on upper right verso.
• Layout: Written in 15-18 long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Item is undated, but based on the paper, probably copied in Persia in the late 14th century.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, by multiple hands; beginning and end (f. 1-40, 310-321) of manuscript written on replacement leaves by a later hand in a narrower version of the 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.
• Ownership stamps, probably 19th century, in Persian: a rectangle in purple ink with the name Muṣṭafá Shāh ʻAlāʼī and the title Qānūn added by hand (f. 1r), and a ring in red ink with the name Manūchihr Nukhastīn Āṣaf Qājār (f. 1r, 109r, 228r, 278r, 321r).
• Sold by Sam Fogg Limited (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Oct. 2001.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 81 (LJS 426).

Cite as

UPenn LJS 426.

OCLC

819546307

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