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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 413

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Codicological description

Physical description

Ink: black, headings and dividers are highlighted in red
Paper: Oriental
Dimensions : 120 x 162 (810 x 125)
Folios: 01+46+001
Quires: due to the binding could not be established exactly
Lines : 15
Script : naskh
Pace : lines: 15; Density: 210; Ratio: 1:1; Alef angle: 90; Kaf angle: 35
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 (approximate): 16th cent.

History of manuscript

Provenance: known owners: S?mī Ibr?hīm Ḥadd?d (1986).
Acquisition: Sotheby's lot 470 (22/21.11.85)


Description of texts

Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.1
Language: Arabic
Subject: Medicine
Title transliterated: Daf` al-Maḍ?rr al-kullīya `ani l-Abd?n al-ins?nīya
Title: Repelling of general Diseases from the human Bodiy
Title (Arabic): د?ع ال?مضار ال?كلية عن الابدان ل?نسانية
Author: Abū `Alī al-Ḥusayn b. `Abd All?h b. Sīn?
Author (Arabic): ابو على ال?حسين ابن عبد ال?له ابن سينا
Bibliographic information: Ullmann Medizin p. 191, Ḥadd?d/Biesterfeld no. 22



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