University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 355
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- DS ID:
- DS30183
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 355
- Title:
- Books III-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb
- Author:
- Avicenna, 980-1037 / ابن سينا، 980-1037
- Date:
- between 1400 and 1499?
- Language:
- Arabic
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 182 leaves : paper ; 322 x 222 (255 x 164) mm bound to 322 x 232 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, 182; 1-1810 192.
Layout: Written in 51 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed; headings in slightly larger script.
Decoration: Headings and significant words and phrases in red ink; textblock outlined in ink.
Binding: Brown leather over board with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis; flap has coordinating stamp; plain paper doublure; rebound.
Origin: Probably copied in the 15th century (based on the paper), from a source manuscript dated 9 Ramadan, A.H. 608 (1212 CE, f. 182r).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 1999.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958615963503681
- Holding Institution:
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