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Title

Facsimile of LJS 398, Khalq al-insān

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

4-23-2015

Files

Comments

Medical treatise in 50 chapters, 35 concerning reproduction and the final 15 addressing the soul and intellect from a neoplatonic perspective. Some marginal notes. Persian inscriptions recording births in A.H. 1236, 1243, and 1245 on the last page (f. 84v), suggesting use of the manuscript by a medical practitioner.

Keywords

Medicine--Early works to 1800, Medicine Arab, Reproduction--Early works to 1800, Soul--Early works to 1800 Codices, Treatises, Manuscripts Arabic--13th century, Manuscripts Medieval

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5894586

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs398.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 398, Khalq al-insān" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 102.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/102