University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1998

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30238

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1998

Title:

Jarīdat al-aṭibbāʼ kharīdat al-alibbāʼ / جريدة الاطباء خريدة الالباء

Author:

Kahvecizâde, Ahmed bin Hüseyin / قهوه‌جى‌ز‌اده، احمد بن حسين

Place:

Turkey?

Turkey TGN

Date:

between 1750 and 1850?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Ottoman Turkish with titles in Arabic

Ottoman Turkish WIKIDATA

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: iii, 81, ii leaves : paper ; 226 x 155 (180 x 105) mm bound to 227 x 155 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from introduction (f. 2v)
Foliation: Contemporary foliation in ink (3-7 upper center recto, 24-79 upper right verso); catchwords every verso, lower left. Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto (1-23, 25-81).
Layout: 17-23 long lines, ruled with a misṭarah.
Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Rubrications in red, including all titles.
Binding: Blue decorated pasteboard sides, somewhat rubbed, with red leather outer edges (Type III); black embossed pastedowns.
Origin: The item is undated, probably copied in the 18th or 19th century.
Sold at Bloomsbury Auctions (London), lot 78, December 4, 2018.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Turkish

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Manuscripts

Eighteenth century

notes (documents)

prescriptions

Nineteenth century

Medicine, Medieval

Materia medica

Medicine

Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.

Medicine, Arab

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9977475244903681

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania