Penn Library's LJS 355 - Selections from Avicenna's medical encyclopedia (Video Orientation)

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): Videos
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800
Medicine Arab
Medicine Medieval
Medicine
Manuscripts Arabic
Manuscripts 15th century
Manuscripts Renaissance
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Arabic Studies
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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Porter, Dot
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2022-05-16
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Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 355, a 15th-century copy of Books III (al-Amrāḍ al-juzʼīyah, diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (al-Amrāḍ allatī lā takhuṣṣ bi-ʻuḍwin bi-ʻaynih, diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (al-Adwiyah al-murakkabah, compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries) from a 13th-century manuscript of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia. The colophon of the 13th-century manuscript states that it was edited by Muḥammad ibn Abī Shujāʻ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Kātib. The paper is brittle from oxidation; some repairs have been made. Digital copies and a full record are available through Franklin: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958615963503681
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