Dot Porter, SIMS Curator for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 427, Books II (materia medica), III (diseases arranged by part of the body), IV (diseases not specific to particular organs), and V (compound drugs, ointments, and electuaries) of Avicenna’s medical encyclopedia. Some marginal notes, beginning in Book III, with more toward the end of the volume; 2 notes in Arabic laid in following f. 144 and f. 275; the last five leaves copied in a second hand. Copy of book III completed at the end of Ṣafar A.H. 989 (April 1581) (f. 235v).
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The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 