Maqālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-yad. = مقالة في العمل باليد.
- Publication:
- A.H. 869 (1464)
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
108 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 177 x 125 (135 x 90) mm bound to 177 x 140 mm - Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
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- Subjects:
- Surgical instruments and apparatus.
Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
Surgery.
Surgical instruments and apparatus -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Arab. - Form/Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Treatises.
Drawings (visual works)
Annotations.
Early works. - Language:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- 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). - Local notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Penn 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. - Cited in:
- Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 87-88 (LJS 435).
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 435.
- Contributor:
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) - OCLC:
- 785430346
- Web link:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page