University of Pennsylvania, LJS 446
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- DS ID:
- DS30180
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 446
- Title:
- al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb / القانون في الطب
- Author:
- Avicenna, 980-1037 / ابن سينا، 980-1037
- Place:
- Spain
- Date:
- between 1100 and 1150
- Language:
- Arabic, with a few annotations in Hebrew (f. 50r-50v)
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 92 leaves : paper ; 240 x 165 (190 x 120) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 92; [1-92], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.
Layout: Written in 25 long lines.
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).
Decoration: Headings in ink that now appears purple; diagram of the sutures of the cranium (f. 14v).
Origin: Likely copied in Spain, in Cordoba or Toledo, in the first half of the 12th century.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Dec. 2002.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958610763503681
- Holding Institution:
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