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17th Century painting of a doctor taking a woman's pulse

17th Century painting of a doctor taking a woman's pulse.

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Haddad manuscripts collection

An on-line Catalogue of the Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts
(Al-Haddad Collection)


prepared by Nikolaj Serikoff

Wellcome MS Arabic 401

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Codicological description

Physical description

Ink: Brown, headings and dividers are highlighted in red
Paper: European
Watermarks: Obscure, fol. 212 has a fragment of a trefoil.
Dimensions : 157x220 (110x170)
Folios: 214
Quires: due to the binding cannot be established exactly
Lines : 16
Script : naskh
Pace : lines: 16; Density: 416; Ratio: 1:1; Alef angle: 95; Kaf angle: 40
Binding: modern, European type. Leather spine with title of the book, the name of the author, and of last owner S?mī Ḥadd?d tooled in gold
Catchwords: are written underneath the text block.
State of preservation: good

Description of hands

Copy date (approximate): ca. 18th cent. AD

History of manuscript

Provenance: known owners: 1. Ayūb Ṣiw?n, 2. N?ṣir al-H̱ūrī, 3. S?mī Ibr?hīm Ḥadd?d (1986).
Acquisition: Sotheby's lot 458.


Description of texts

Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.1
Language: Arabic
Subject: Medicine
Title transliterated: Al-A`ḍ?' al-?lima
Title: Pain in the Limbs
Title (Arabic): الاعضاء ال?آلمة
Title (Greek / Latin): PERI [DIAGNWSEWS] TWN PEPONJOTWN TOPWN
Author: Galen
Author (Arabic): جالينوس
Bibliographic information: Ullmann Medizin pp. 41~-- 42, Ḥadd?d/Biesterfeld no.6



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