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DS ID:

DS684

Shelfmark:

LJS 444

Title:

Ḥall al-Mūjiz / حل الموجز

Ḥall al-Mūjiz

Author:

Aqsarāʼī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 14th century / اقسرائي، محمد بن محمد، active 14th century

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Aqsarāʼī WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Astarābādī, ʻAlī ibn Kamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd / استرابادي، علي بن كمال الدين محمود،

ʻAlī ibn Kamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd Astarābādī WIKIDATA

Date:

A.H. 884 (1480)

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illustrations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 246 leaves : paper, illustrations ; mm bound to mm +

Former Owner(s):

ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Qāṭin, active 1698 / عبد الفتاح القاطن، active 1698

ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Qāṭin WIKIDATA

Ismāʻīl ibn al-Ḥājj ʻĪsá Jurayj al-Muhannā, active 1781 / اسماعيل بن الحاج عيسى جريج المهنى، active 1781

Ismāʻīl ibn al-Ḥājj ʻĪsá Jurayj al-Muhannā WIKIDATA

ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī, active 1824 / عبد الله الاسطواني، active 1824،

ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī WIKIDATA

al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī, active 1846 / الحاج عبد القادر بن السيد عبد الله الاسطواني، active 1846،

al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from added title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 246 + i (18th-century?) ; [i-v, 1], 2-240, [241]; contemporary foliation in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines with marginal notes (except on replacement leaves, f. 63-64, 125-130, 157-162, 173-178).
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Diagram of the human eye and its communication with the brain (f. 133v); significant words and phrases and overlining in red.
Binding: Contemporary (late 15th-century) pasteboards, remnant of 17th-century cloth spine, covers detached.
Origin: Copy completed on 12 Shawwāl A.H. 884 (5 January 1480), by ʻAlī ibn Kamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Astarābādī, with replacement leaves added in the 18th century (f. 240v).
Readers' notes dated 986 A.H. (1578 or 1579) (third front flyleaf verso); owners' stamps (front flyleaf 2 recto, f. 1r, 240v).
Formerly owned by ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Qāṭin, Tabriz, 1110 A.H. (1698 or 1699) (note, front flyleaf 1 recto).
Formerly owned by Ismāʻīl ibn al-Ḥājj ʻĪsá Jurayj al-Muhannā, Rabi II A.H. 1195 (March-April 1781, inscription on front pastedown).
Formerly owned by ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī, A.H. 1239/1240 (1824 or 1825) (note, front flyleaf 1 recto, f. 240v).
Formerly owned by al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī, 1262 A.H. (1846) (note, front flyleaf 1 recto).
Sold at auction at Bonhams & Butterfields, 14 Nov. 2002, lot 3001, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Keyword:

marginalia (annotations)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Early works

codices (bound manuscripts)

diagrams

Annotations

commentaries

Manuscripts, Arabic

Stamps

Manuscripts

Fifteenth century

Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (Avicenna)

Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 1211-1288. Mūjiz

Medicine

Medicine, Arab

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9959031653503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3th8bn7p/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania