Details

Subject(s)

• Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī 809?-873—Masāʼil fī al-ṭibb lil-mutaʻallimīn [Browse]
• Hippocrates—Aphorisms [Browse]
• Medicine, Arab [Browse]
• Medicine, Medieval [Browse]
• Medicine—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Summary note

Medical commentaries, one on the aphorisms of Hippocrates and one on the Questions on medicine for students by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, also known as Joannitius. The manuscript is lacking its beginning, and several pages at the beginning and end have been repaired.

Notes

• Binding: Later leather spine and corners, paper over boards.
• Decoration: Rubrications in red.
• Foliation: Paper, i (later) + 81; [1-81], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
• Layout: Written in 31 long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Item is undated, it was possibly copied in Mamluk Egypt or Syria in the 14th century.
• Script: Written in naskh script in black ink; pointed.
• Title of first work from colophon (f. 60v); title of second work from caption title (f. 60v).

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.
• Sold by Sam Fogg Limited (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 2000.

References

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), pages 83-84 (LJS 393).

Cite as

LJS 393.

Other title(s)

• Masāʼil Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq.
• مسائل حنين بن اسحاق.

OCLC

825823326

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