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Maqālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-yad; مقالة في العمل باليد

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3r20rx2p
Title: Maqālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-yad, مقالة في العمل باليد
Name: Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, -1013?
Date: 1464
Collection: Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, 15th century, Manuscripts, Renaissance, Codices (bound manuscripts), Treatises, Drawings (visual works), Annotations, Early works, manuscripts (documents)
Description: Portions of a treatise on surgery. Parts of the second chapter and all of the third chapter of the 3-chapter treatise, which is the last of the 30 treatises in the Taṣrīf li-man ʻajiza ʻan al-taʼlīf, a larger work by al-Zahrāwī. Topics in the manuscript include incision, perforation, blood-letting, wounds, bone-setting, dislocations, and sprains. Contemporary corrections in margins; additional notes in a maghribi script also in margins.
Extent: 108 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 177 x 125 (135 x 90) mm bound to 177 x 140 mm
Language: Arabic
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. codex., Title from colophon (f. 107v)., Collation: Paper, 108; 1¹² 2⁸ 3¹² 4⁴ 5⁸ 6¹² 7⁸ 8¹² 9⁸ 10-11¹²; [1-85, i, 86-107]; modern foliation in pencil, upper center recto. Catchword on each leaf, lower left verso., Layout: Written in 19 long lines., Script: Written in naskh script in black ink in two hands; partially pointed, further points added by a later hand., Decoration: Numerous illustrations of surgical instruments in black or black and red ink; rubrications in red., Binding: Bound in light brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla, border and foliate frame; plain paper doublure., Origin: Copy completed in A.H. 869 (1464)., Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative., Arabic.
Relation: The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278, Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3r20rx2p, Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs435.html, Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000325
Subject: Surgical instruments and apparatus, Surgery -- Early works to 1800, Surgery, Surgical instruments and apparatus -- Early works to 1800, Medicine, Arab
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 435
Provenance: Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 2 Apr. 2002, lot 23, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg., Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011., Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016., Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9948288963503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3r20rx2p/manifest

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