Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Ṣafūrī [Browse]
• عبد الرحمن بن عبد السلام الصفوري، [Browse]

Former owner

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J. [Browse]

Summary note

Medical treatise in 50 chapters, 35 concerning reproduction and the final 15 addressing the soul and intellect from a neoplatonic perspective. Some marginal notes. Persian inscriptions recording births in A.H. 1236, 1243, and 1245 on the last page (f. 84v), suggesting use of the manuscript by a medical practitioner.

Notes

• Binding: Later morocco with gilt-stamped onlays of a central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces.
• Decoration: Rubrications in red.
• Foliation: Paper, i (modern) + 84 + i (modern); [1-84], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto (f. 1-44 also foliated with eastern Arabic numerals in ink, upper left recto). Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
• Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Copy completed in Mamluk Syria or Iraq by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Ṣafūrī on 15 Jumādá al-Ākhirah A.H. 689 (colophon, f. 84r).
• Script: Written in rapid naskh in black ink; pointed.
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).

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.
• Several notes and ownership seals on first and last pages (f. 1r, 84v).
• Sold by Sam Fogg Limited (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2000.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 84 (LJS 398).

Cite as

UPenn LJS 398.

Other title(s)

• Khalq al-insān
• خلق الانسان

OCLC

826025151

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