University of Pennsylvania, LJS 427
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS669
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 427
- Title:
- Books II-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb
- Avicenna, 980-1037 / ابن سينا، 980-1037
- Place:
- Persia?
- Date:
- A.H. 989 (1581)
- Language:
- Arabic
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 367 leaves : paper ; 318 x 220 (215 x 138) mm bound to 318 x 230 mm +
- Former Owner(s):
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript and section titles supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, i (19th-century?) + 367; 46 gatherings alternating between 6 leaves and 10 leaves, with the last gathering lacking one leaf; [1-367], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchword on each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 31 long lines, with names of medicines and ailments written in the margins.
Script: Written in naskh script, except for the final leaves written in nastaʻlīq script (f. 362r-367r).
Decoration: Significant words and phrases in red ink; names of medicines and ailments in red ink in the margins corresponding to words in red in the text.
Binding: Possibly 19th-century Indian leather; stamped central mandorla with four pendants on the vertical axis all with green paper onlays; pink paper pastedowns.
Origin: Copy of book III completed at the end of Ṣafar A.H. 989 (April 1581) (f. 235v).
Possible ownership seal (f. 95r) and inscriptions (f. 1r).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Oct. 2001.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958643963503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3g737501/manifest
- Holding Institution:
