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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 415

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Codicological description

Physical description

Ink: black, headings and dividers are highlighted in red
Paper: Oriental
Dimensions : 140 x 190 ( 90x140)
Folios: 54 + 002
Quires: due to the binding could not be established exactly; fols 10a, 20a, 30a contain quire marks
Lines : 12
Script : naskh
Pace : lines: 12; Density: 200; Ratio: 1:1; Alef angle: 95; Kaf angle: 25
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): Abū-l-Fatḥ b. `Abd All?h b. Abū-l-Fatḥ as-Samirī
Copyist name (Arabic): ابو ال???تح بن عبد ال?لّه ابن ابو ل??تح ال?سامرى
Copy date (Muslim): 2 Ḏū l-Ḥiǧǧa 754 / 29 December 1353

History of manuscript

Provenance: known owners: S?mī Ibr?hīm Ḥadd?d (1986).
Acquisition: Sotheby's lot 472 (22/21.11.85)


Description of texts

Ms Part no.:1

Ms Part: 1 - Ms item no.1
Language: Arabic
Subject: Medicine
Title transliterated: Urǧūza fī-ṭ-Ṭibb
Title: Urǧūza on Medicine
Title (Arabic): ارجوزة ?ي ال?طبّ
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. 155, Ḥadd?d/Biesterfeld no. 25



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