Books III-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb
- Holding institution:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- Books III-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb
- Creator:
- Avicenna, 980-1037
- Date:
- A.H. 899-904 (1494-1498)
- Description:
- Books III (al-Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah, diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (al-Amrāḍ allatī lā takhuṣṣ bi-ʻuḍwin bi-ʻaynih, diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (al-Adwiyah al-murakkabah, compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries) of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. Extensive marginal notes on the first pages of the manuscript (f. 1v-3r), with frequent brief marginal notes in the rest of the manuscript. A somewhat later table of contents, arranged in a grid, has been added at the front of the volume (f. iii recto-xvii recto).
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts, 15th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Illuminations (painting)
Encyclopedias
Treatises
Medicine--Early works to 1800
Medicine, Arab
Medicine, Medieval - Provenance:
- Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 3 May 2001, lot 32, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
- Extent:
- Written in 29 long lines.
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania
- Rights:
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- Oversize LJS 417
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World