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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 409

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Codicological description

Physical description

Ink: black, red headings
Paper: Oriental
Dimensions : 175 x 265 (120 x 210)
Folios: 154
Quires: due to the binding could not be established exactly
Lines : 32
Script : naskh
Pace : lines: 32; Density: 1280; Ratio: 1:1; Alef angle: 85; 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
State of preservation: good

Description of hands

Copy date (Muslim): 5 Ramaḍ?n 838 / 4 April 1435

History of manuscript

Seals: +
Provenance: known owners: 1. H?šim b. Murtaḍ? al-Ḥusaynī, 2. `Ib?d All?h b. Muḥammad Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad B?qir b. Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭabīb `Im?d ad-Dīn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭaha, 3. Mirz? Ism?`īl (1824), 4. S?mī Ibr?hīm Ḥadd?d (1986).
Acquisition: Sotheby's lot 466 (22/21.11.85)


Description of texts

Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.1
Language: Arabic
Subject: Medicine
Title transliterated: K?mil aṣ-Ṣin?`at aṭ-Ṭibbiyya al-ma`rūf bi-l-Malakī
Title: A Complete Course in the Art of Medicine, known as al-Malakī
Title (Arabic): كامل ال?صناعة ال?طبية ال?معرو? ب?ال?ملكى
Author: `Alī b. al-`Abb?s al-Maǧūsī
Author (Arabic): على بن ال?عباس ال?مجوسى


Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.1
Language: Arabic
Subject: Medicine
Title transliterated: K?mil aṣ-Ṣin?`at aṭ-Ṭibbiyya al-ma`rūf bi-l-Malakī
Title: A Complete Course in the Art of Medicine, known as al-Malakī
Title (Arabic): كامل ال?صناعة ال?طبية ال?معرو? ب?ال?ملكى
Author: Alī b. al-`Abb?s al-Maǧūsī
Author (Arabic): على بن ال?عباس ال?مجوسى
Bibliographic information: Ullmann Medizin p. 140~-- 146, Ḥadd?d/Biesterfeld no.18



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