University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 417

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DS ID:

DS660

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 417

Title:

Books III-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb

Author:

Avicenna, 980-1037 / ابن سينا، 980-1037

Avicenna WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Fārij al-Karab Yūsuf ibn Ḥusayn ibn Fayyāḍ al-ʻArab, active 1494 / فارج الكرب يوسف بن حسين بن فياض العرب، active 1494،

Fārij al-Karab Yūsuf ibn Ḥusayn ibn Fayyāḍ al-ʻArab WIKIDATA

Date:

A.H. 899-904 (1494-1498)

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 626 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 316 x 173 (220 x 172) mm bound to 316 x 187 mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Composite leather, front and back covers are different colors with different style stamps; blind-stamped central medallion with two pendants on the vertical axis; bright red leather spine and edges; endbands in bright blue and pink; paper label with title Kitāb al-Qānūn in ink on upper cover.
Origin: Written in A.H. 899-904 (1494-1498, colophons, f. 356r, 489r, 541r, 598v).
Ms. codex.
Decoration: 2 illuminated headpieces, the first rubbed (f. 1v, 542v), and space left open for another headpiece (f. 357v); overlining, a few significant words and phrases, and simple ornamentation around colophons (f. 356r, 489r, 541r) in red ink in first section of manuscript (f. 1v-541r); much less overlining and more words and phrases in red in second section of manuscript (f. 542v-598v...
Script: Written in naskh script, in the hand of Fārij al-Karab Yūsuf ibn Ḥusayn ibn Fayyāḍ al-ʻArab (colophons, f. 356r, 489r, 541r, 598v) and also perhaps another hand (f. 1v-541r, 542v-598v).
Foliation: Paper, xviii (later) + 598; [i-xviii, i], 1-540, [i], 541-596, foliation added in ink, perhaps at the same time as the table of contents, upper left recto; [i-xviii, 1-598], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.
Layout: Written in 29 long lines.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 3 May 2001, lot 32, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Keyword:

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Arabic

encyclopedias

Medicine, Arab

Medicine, Medieval

Medicine

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958645723503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3xg9fm6z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania