Details

Standardized Title:

Sharḥ Fusūl Ibuqrāṭ
شرح فصول ابقراط http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008049561

Other Title:

مسائل حنين بن اسحاق.

Subjects:

Hippocrates. Aphorisms.
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 809?-873. Masāʼil fī al-ṭibb lil-mutaʻallimīn.
Aphorisms (Hippocrates).
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine.
Medicine, Arab.
Medicine, Medieval.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Commentaries.
Early works.

Language:

Arabic.

Summary:

Medical commentaries, one on the aphorisms of Hippocrates and one on the Questions on medicine for students by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, also known as Joannitius. The manuscript is lacking its beginning, and several pages at the beginning and end have been repaired.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title of first work from colophon (f. 60v); title of second work from caption title (f. 60v).
Foliation: Paper, i (later) + 81; [1-81], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 31 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh script in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Rubrications in red.
Binding: Later leather spine and corners, paper over boards.
Origin: Item is undated, it was possibly copied in Mamluk Egypt or Syria in the 14th century.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 2000.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 83-84 (LJS 393).

Cited as:

LJS 393.

Contributor:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Contains:

Masāʼil Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq.
مسائل حنين بن اسحاق.

OCLC:

825823326

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page