Details

Subjects:

Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 1211-1288. Mūjiz.
Avicenna, 980-1037. Qānūn fī al-ṭibb.
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (Avicenna).
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine.
Medicine, Arab.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Commentaries.
Diagrams.
Stamps (Provenance)
Annotations (Provenance)
Marginalia (annotations)
Early works.

Language:

Arabic.

Summary:

Commentary on the epitome (Mūjiz) by Ibn al-Nafīs of Avicenna's Canon on medicine (Qānūn fī al-ṭibb). Notes laid in after f. 142, 222.

Notes:

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).

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

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.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 82-83 (LJS 444).

Cited as:

LJS 444.

Contributor:

Astarābādī, ʻAlī ibn Kamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd, scribe.
ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Qāṭin, active 1698, former owner.
Ismāʻīl ibn al-Ḥājj ʻĪsá Jurayj al-Muhannā, active 1781, former owner.
ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī, active 1824, former owner.
al-Ḥājj ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh al-Asṭawānī, active 1846, former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
استرابادي، علي بن كمال الدين محمود، scribe.
عبد الفتاح القاطن، active 1698, former owner.
اسماعيل بن الحاج عيسى جريج المهنى، active 1781, former owner.
عبد الله الاسطواني، active 1824، former owner.
الحاج عبد القادر بن السيد عبد الله الاسطواني، active 1846، former owner.

OCLC:

827697845

Web link:

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