University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 359

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS627

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 359

Title:

Liber canonis.

Author:

Avicenna, 980-1037

Avicenna WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

[between 1250 and 1299]

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 17 leaves : parchment ; 284 x 210 (184 x 125) mm (Book 1); 287 x 213 (208 x 144) mm (Book 2)

Former Owner(s):

Clarke, William

William Clarke WIKIDATA

Church, John

John Church WIKIDATA

Note:

Origin: Written in England between 1250 and 1299 (Quaritch).
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 52 (Book 1) and 58 (Book 2) lines; frame-ruled in lead with double horizontal bounding lines in Book 1 and double vertical bounding lines in Book 2; prickings visible.
Title from opening rubric (f. 1r).
Binding: Sewn in modern paper wrapper.
Decoration: 6-line puzzle initial in red and blue with flourishing in red and blue (f. 1r); 1-line initials alternating between red and blue in the table of contents (f. 1r-2v); 2-line initials alternating between red and blue, with contrasting flourishes, in Book 1 (f. 3r-11v); running head L[iber] I in red and blue, sometimes with simple flourishes in the contrasting color (f. 1r-11v...
Script: Written in Gothic script by at least 2 hands (f. 1r-11v, 12r-17v); 14th-century Gothic script on repairs; 17th- and 18th-century pen trials and inscriptions (f. 12v, 13v, 17v).
Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper wrapper) + 17 + i (modern paper wrapper); 1¹²(-1) 2² 3⁸(-4); columns numbered in an early hand, upper outer corners, 5-40 (Book 1, f. 3r-11v) and 351-354, 371-374, 347-350, 355-358, 367-370, 375-376, 378-379 (misnumbered for 377-378; Book 2, f. 12r-17v). Possible catchword on last verso (f. 17v).
Ms. codex.
Sold by Bernard Quaritch Ltd., cat. 1270 (2000), no. 7, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Possible 18th- or 19th-century ownership inscriptions: John Church (f. 13v); William Clarke (f. 18v).
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Keyword:

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin

Materia medica

Medicine, Arab

Medicine, Medieval

Medicine

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9954196093503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3hg6r/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania