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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 406

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Codicological description

Physical description

Ink: black, headings are highlighted in red
Paper: European
Dimensions : 155 x 210 (10 x 15)
Folios: 30
Quires: due to the binding could not be established exactly
Lines : 17
Script : naskh
Pace : lines: 17; Density: 320; Ratio: 1:0,8; Alef angle: 105; 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: mediocre

Description of hands

Copy date (approximate): ca. 16~-- 17 cent.

History of manuscript

Provenance: known owners: S?mī Ibr?hīm Ḥadd?d (1986).
Acquisition: Sotheby's Lot 463


Description of texts

Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.1
Language: Arabic
Subject: Medicine
Title transliterated: Z?d al-Mus?fir wa-Qūt al-Ḥ?ḍir
Title: Provisions for the Traveller and Nourishment for the Sedentary
Title (Arabic): زاد ال?مسا?ر و‌قوت ال?حاضر
Author: Abū Ǧa`far Aḥmad b. Ibr?hīm b. Abī H?lid b. al-Ǧazz?r
Author (Arabic): ابو جع?ر احمد بن ابرهيم بن ابي خالد بن ال?جزار
Bibliographic information: Ullmann Medizin p. 147~-- 148, Ḥadd?d/Biesterfeld no. 15



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