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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 405

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Codicological description

Physical description

Ink: black, headings and dividers are highlighted in red
Paper: Oriental
Dimensions : 115 x 190 (50 x 95)
Folios: 03+ 252+ 001
Quires: due to the binding could not be established exactly
Lines : 12
Script : naskh
Pace : lines: 12; Density: 240; Ratio: 1:1,3; Alef angle: 110; Kaf angle: 30
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

Copyist name (transliterated): Ibn Šakr All?h Muḥammad Šarīf
Copyist name (Arabic): ابن شكر ال?لّه محمد شري?
Copy date (Muslim): 20 Ramaḍ?n 960 / 30 August 1553

History of manuscript

Provenance: known owners: S?mī Ibr?hīm Ḥadd?d (1986).
Acquisition: Sotheby's lot 462 (22/21.11.85)


Description of texts

Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.1
Language: Arabic
Subject: Medicine
Title transliterated: Mūǧiz al-Q?nūn
Title: Abstract of Al-Q?nūn
Title (Arabic): موجز ال?قانون
Author: `Al? ad-Dīn `Alī b. abī l-Ḥazm al-Qurašī (known as) Ibn an-Nafīs
Author (Arabic): على ال?دين على بن ابي ال?حزم ال?قرشي ال?معرو? ب?ابن ال?ن?يس
Bibliographic information: Ullmann Medizin p. 173, Ḥadd?d/Biesterfeld no. 63


Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.2
Language: Arabic
Subject: Medicine
Title transliterated: Kit?b al-Ḥuqqa
Title: Book discovered in an ivory box
Title (Arabic): كتاب ال?حقّة
Title (Greek / Latin): Capsula eburnea
Author: Hippocrates
Author (Arabic): ابقراط
Bibliographic information:


Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.3
Language: Arabic
Subject: Medicine
Title transliterated: Bur' as-S?`a
Title: Healing within an Hour
Title (Arabic): برء ال?ساعة
Author: Abū Bakr Muḥammad Zakariy?' ar-R?zī
Author (Arabic): ابو بكر محمد زكريا الرّازى
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