Books II-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb.
- Holding institution:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- Books II-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb.
- Creator:
- Avicenna, 980-1037
- Date:
- A.H. 989 (1581)
- Description:
- Books II (materia medica), III (diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries) of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. Some marginal notes, beginning in Book III, with more toward the end of the volume; 2 notes in Arabic laid in following f. 144 and f. 275; the last five leaves copied in a second hand.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts, 16th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Treatises
Onlays (decorative components)
Annotations (Provenance)
Stamps (Provenance)
Medicine--Early works to 1800
Medicine, Arab
Medicine, Medieval - Geographic region:
- Persia?
- Provenance:
- Possible ownership seal (f. 95r) and inscriptions (f. 1r).Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Oct. 2001.Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
- Extent:
- Written in 31 long lines, with names of medicines and ailments written in the margins.
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania
- Rights:
- These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize LJS 427: Books II-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
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- Oversize LJS 427
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World