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Title

Maqālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-yad.
مقالة في العمل باليد

Authors

• Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, -1013?
  أبو القاسم خلف بن عباس الزهراوي،

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00004988)

Call number

LJS 435
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948288963503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/785430346
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3r20rx2p https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs435.html https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000325

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Place

A.H. 869 (1464)

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).
   

Extent

108 leaves : 177 x 125 (135 x 90) mm bound to 177 x 140 mm

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.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in light brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla, border and foliate frame; plain paper doublure.

Layout

Written in 19 long lines.

Decoration

Numerous illustrations of surgical instruments in black or black and red ink; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh script in black ink in two hands; partially pointed, further points added by a later hand.

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Surgical instruments and apparatus
• Surgery--Early works to 1800
• Surgery
• Surgical instruments and apparatus--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Arab
• Medicine, Arab

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• treatises
• drawings (visual works)
• annotations
• Early works

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 2v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 2v
• fol. 3v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 4v
• fol. 5v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 6r
• fol. 6v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 6v
• fol. 8v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 9r
• fol. 10r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 10r
• fol. 11r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 11r
• fol. 12r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 12v
• fol. 14r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 14r
• fol. 14v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 15r
• fol. 16r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 16r
• fol. 16v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 16v
• fol. 17r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 17r
• fol. 17v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 17v
• fol. 18r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 18r
• fol. 18v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 18v
• fol. 19r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 19r
• fol. 19v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 19v
• fol. 20r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 20r
• fol. 20v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 20v
• fol. 21r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 21r
• fol. 21v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 21v
• fol. 23r — Illustration, f. 23r
• fol. 23v — Illustration, f. 23v
• fol. 24r — Illustration, f. 24r
• fol. 25v — Illustration, f. 25v
• fol. 26r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 26r
• fol. 26v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 26v
• fol. 27r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 27r
• fol. 27v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 27v
• fol. 28r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 28r
• fol. 31v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 31v
• fol. 41r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 41r
• fol. 41v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 41v
• fol. 51r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 51r
• fol. 51v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 51v
• fol. 52r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 52r
• fol. 57v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 57v
• fol. 63r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 63r
• fol. 63v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 63v
• fol. 64v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 64v
• fol. 66r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 66r
• fol. 74v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 74v
• fol. 75r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 75r
• fol. 78v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 78v
• fol. 82r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 82r
• fol. 82v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 82v
• fol. 83r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 83r
• fol. 89r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 89r
• fol. 95v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 95v
• fol. 100r — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 100r
• fol. 103v — Illustration, Surgical instrument, f. 103v