Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century, author مغربي، أبو سعيد بن إبراهيم، ناشط قرن 12، مؤلف
Published / Created:
23 Ramaḍān, 1021 H [17 November, 1612]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 3
Image Count:
504
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on medicine and pharmacology by Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mutaṭabbib al-Maghribī, a little known physician and pharmacologist who seems to have lived in the 12th century. The name of the author is given as "Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm al...
Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405 دميري، محمد بن موسى، 1341?-1405
Published / Created:
[17th century?]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic S-2
Image Count:
862
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A zoological encyclopedia listing the names of the different animals, birds and insects arranged alphabetically, with anecdotes, poems and folkloric tales, but the most important part of this work is the description of the medicinal properties of the ...
Alternative Title:
Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá 880-02 and حياة الحيوان الكبرى 240-02/r
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405.
Subject (Topic):
Zoology, Science, Medieval, and Animals in literature
Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Muʼmin, -1698, author حسىنى، محمد مؤمن، -1698 author
Published / Created:
19 Shaʻbān, 1124 H [21 September, 1712]
Call Number:
Manuscript Persian S-3
Image Count:
240
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Part 4 of Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn "Precious gift of the faithful" (an encyclopedic work on medicine and materia medica) of Muḥammad Muʼmin al-Ḥusaynī al-Tunukābunī (d. 1698), a prominent physician in Azerbaijan, originally composed for the Ṣafavid ...
Alternative Title:
Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn. Selections 880-02 and تحفة المؤمنين. Selections 240-02/r
Avicenna, 980-1037, author ابن سينا، 980-1037 مؤلف
Published / Created:
1055 H [1645 or 1646]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 6
Image Count:
1030
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
al-Qanūn fī al-ṭibb, a comprehensive manuscript on Arabic medicine by al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī ibn Sīnā (980-1037), commonly known by the Latinized version of his name Avicenna who was born near Bukhara in Persia (present-day Uzbekistan). Avicenna wa...
Alternative Title:
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. 1645 Selections. 880-02 and قانون في الطب. 1645 مختارات. 240-02/r
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Selections 880-02, Qānūn fī ḥadd al-ṭibb, قانون في الطب. مختارات 240-02/(3/r, and قانون في حد الطب
Description:
Covers book 1 and 2 only. Book 2 misbound before book 1 (121, 121 leaves). Copied in various naskh hands. The date probably 1226 H/1811 M. The written surface measures 13.5x21 cm. Some marginalia. Contains dozen or so crude drawings in the margin. The...
Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 1211-1288 ابن النفيس، علي بن أبي الحزم، 1210 or 1211-1288
Published / Created:
22 Rajab, 745 H1055 H [29 November, 1344]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 23
Image Count:
222
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
al-Mūjaz fī al-ṭibb, a compendium of medicine by Ibn al-Nafīs, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm al-Qurashī al-Mutaṭabbib (1210 or 1211-1288), an illustrious and prolific scholar of the 13th century and a prominent physician ...
Alternative Title:
Hādhā kitāb ʻulum al-ṭibb min jamīʻ al-aṣnāf, al-amrāḍ, al-ʻilāj ʻan al-ḥukamāʼ al-qudamāʼ and هذا كتاب علم الطب من جميع الأصناف، الأمراض، العلاج عن الحكماء القدماء
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Avicenna, 980-1037. and Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 1211-1288.
Two cherubs balancing an egg with a stork on top and initials "SHZ" in the center of the egg. Beneath the egg is the year 1881. The cherubs are each standing on a book—to the left, "Ornithology" and to the right, "oology". At the bottom, is a line m...
Thoms, Herbert (1885-1972) Young, Thomas (1726-1783)
Published / Created:
1784
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 094
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Forceps
Description:
A pair of metal forceps, stamped with a #4. These forceps had a tuned-up tip to the blades. Thomas Young (1726-1783) taught midwifery at the University of Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D., Yale University. School of Medicine., and Young, Thomas (1726-1783)
Thoms, Herbert (1885-1972) Young, Thomas (1726-1783)
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 045
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Forceps
Description:
Young's obstetric forceps, with #4 stamped on the instrument. These forceps have a turned-up tip to the blades. Thomas Young (1726-1783) taught midwifery at the University of Edinburgh.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D., Yale University. School of Medicine., and Young, Thomas (1726-1783)
Simpson, James Y. (1811-1870) Thoms, Herbert (1885-1972) Young, Edinburgh
Published / Created:
1848
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 045
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Forceps
Description:
A pair of metal forceps with wooden handles. James Y. Simpson (1811 - 1870) of Edinburgh was a prominent obstetrician and the discoverer of chloroform as an anesthetic. His long and short forceps of the mid-nineteenth century were widely used and be...
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D., Simpson, James Y. (1811-1870), and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Yale University. School of Medicine Yerkes, Ada Watterson, 1873- Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956
Published / Created:
20th century
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A large window with two triangles on either side, one with the initials "R. M." and the other "A. W." is in the background of this image, while in the foreground a monkey, wearing a crown, sits atop a large 'Y'. This 'Y' sits on a bookshelf with sever...
Subject (Name):
Yerkes, Ada Watterson and Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956
Subject (Topic):
Books, Microcopes, Physiologists, Primates, and Windows
A library with books in a bookcase, art on the walls, and various items on top of the bookcase. There is a dog on a rug. Beneath the image is the phrase A l'aventure tout vient a pointe qui sait attendre.
The facade of a library building, flanked by a leafy, ribboned motif. At the top are two open books on shields, "Medicine" to the left, and "Surgery" to the right. At the lower right to the building image is an insignia with phrase Quaecumque Sunt Ver...
Subject (Name):
Archibald Church Library Northwestern Medical School
Subject (Topic):
Books, Buildings, Medical colleges, Medical libraries, Northwestern University, Physicians, and Shield
Botel, F. Leake, Chauncey Depew, 1896-1978 Leake, Elizabeth Yale University. School of Medicine
Published / Created:
1952
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Stock bookplate, one not made specifically for Dr. & Mrs. Leake. The scene shows a seated man receiving a book offered from another; a country scene can be viewed in the background. Beneath are various rocks, flora, and animals.
Subject (Name):
Leake, Chauncey Depew, 1896-1978, Leake, Elizabeth, and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Books, Medical historians, Nature, Physicians, and Scholars, Medieval
A statue of Gaspar Tallacotius in an alcove, with 1545 Gaspar Taliacotius 1599 beneath. Under this reads The Gerome P. Webster Library of Plastic Surgery.
Subject (Name):
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, Taliacotius, Gaspar, and Webster, Jerome Pierce
Subject (Topic):
Medical colleges, Medical libraries, Physicians, Statue, and Surgeons
Columbia University Jerome P. Webster Library Yale University. School of Medicine
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A statue of Gaspar Tallacotius in an alcove, with 1545 Gaspar Taliacotius 1599 beneath. Under this reads The Gerome P. Webster Library of Plastic Surgery.
Subject (Name):
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, Taliacotius, Gaspar, and Webster, Gerome P.
Subject (Topic):
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, Medical colleges, Medical libraries, and Statues
At the center of the bookplate is a shield with an argent bordure. A quartered field with two designs—the first and fourth quarters with an argent field divided by a saltire and an argent chief with three cushions upon it. The second and third quart...
Leikind, Morris C. Yale University. School of Medicine
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
The Star of David, with six icons within each point. Starting clockwise from the top: the tablets representing the ten commandments, the symbol for nuclear energy, an open book, a skull, a microscope, and an ankh. This is surrounded by a circle, in wh...
Subject (Name):
Leikind, Morris C. (Morris Cecil), 1905- and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Books, History of medicine, Microcopes, Physicians, and Skull
A circle with a tree in the center. The official description from the ACS notes that "Aesculapius, the symbol of European learning, and an American Indian Medicine Man are seated beneath the Tree of Knowledge, making offering of their symbols of heali...
Subject (Name):
American College of Surgeons, Columbia University, and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Aesculapius, American College of Surgeons, Indians, Medical colleges, Surgeons, and Trees
A seated donkey wearing academic regalia reading a book. Several other books surround it, as well as a crest. Trees can be seen through a window on the right-hand side of the image.
Dana, Charles Loomis, 1852-1935 Yale University. School of Medicine
Published / Created:
1922
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Bookplate shows a scholar seated in a large chair. He is surrounded by books, a quill pen and well, and a caduceus to his right. To his left, surrounded by decorative leaves, is the Dana family's coat of arms.
Subject (Name):
Dana, Charles Loomis, 1852-1935 and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Books, Caduceus, Medical historians, Nature, Neurologists, and Pens
A picture of a man sitting on a shelf with a book under his arm. A phrase creates the border, which reads Pace tua Vique Pictoris Buanorotti o Esai as Sit Hoc Factum. At the bottom: Anno dom MCMXVI.
Subject (Name):
Joslin, Elliott Proctor, 1869-1962 and Yale Medical Library
Subject (Topic):
Books, Medical libraries, Portraits, Snakes, and Yale Medical Library
An oval with a belt and buckle as a border. Written on the belt is the phrase Absit up Glorier Nisi in Cruce. The lower left-hand corner of the bookplate reads San Bernardino, Cal.
Ianacone, John A. Yale University. School of Medicine
Published / Created:
1935
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A muscular man is flanked by two snakes which coil around him with the phrase Sapientia Prudentia Humilitas Patientia Scientia written on a banner beneath. Books, some with titles, a skull, a microscope, several pieces of laboratory glassware, a camer...
Subject (Name):
Ianacone, John A. and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Books, Caduceus, Chemical apparatus, Microscopes, Physicians, and Skull
Clendening, Logan Yale University. School of Medicine
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A drawing of a medieval scene of doctors performing an autopsy in front of a group of students. In the border around the image there are several medical instruments. To the left is the phrase Vita brevis ars longa occasio praeceps and Experientia fall...
Subject (Name):
Clendening, Logan, 1884-1945 and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Medical historians, Physicians, Scientific apparatus and instruments, and Surgeries
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 Yale University. School of Medicine
Published / Created:
1939
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
The Cushing family coat of arms (with the phrase Virtute et Numine is at the top-left corner of border wrapped in leaves and ribbon, with the initials of family members who have gone on to become doctors, and the dates of their degrees or beginning of...
Subject (Name):
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Libraries, Nature, Neurosurgeons, Skull, Snakes, and Yale Medical Library
Belt, Elmer, 1893-1980 Yale University. School of Medicine
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A landscape scene with a satyr reading beneath a single tree. The background consists of rolling hills and a large cloud in the sky. A banner at the bottom of the image reads "On bokes for to Rede I me Delyte" --Chaucer.
Subject (Name):
Belt, Elmer, 1893-1980 and Yale School of Medicine
A drawing of a man writing in a ledger while looking out of a window at a ship on the high seas. On the desk is a telephone, a globe, and some additional books. On either side of the image is a caduceus..
Subject (Name):
Bunts, Frank Emory, 1861-1928 and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Brain, Caduceus, Globes, Physicians, Scientific apparatus and instruments, and Ships
Lambert, Alexander Yale University. School of Medicine
Published / Created:
20th century
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
The Yale insignia, including the phrase Lux et Veritas, at top center of a vertical rectangle surrounded by a decorative border. Beneath this reads "Gift of Dr. Lambert's nephews — Dr. Adrian Lambert B.A. 1930; Dr. John T. Lambert B.A. 1935; Dr. Sam...
Subject (Name):
Lambert, Adrian, Lambert, Alexander, 1861-1939, Lambert, John T., Lambert, Samuel W., and Richards, Dickinson W., Jr.
Subject (Topic):
Books, Medical colleges, Medical libraries, Physicians, Shields, Yale Medical Library, and Yale University. School of Medicine
Becker, Maureen Hussey Yale University. School of Medicine
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A teapot surrounded by flora is at the top of this bookplate. Further below indicates that the books bearing this plate are "from a fund for books in the fields of Medical History and the Neurological Sciences. Established 1960."
Subject (Name):
Becker, Maureen Hussey, 1937-1960 and Yale Medical Library
Subject (Topic):
Medical libraries, Neurology, Text, and Yale Medical Library
A caduceus surrounded by a decorative border is at center, with several books and a quill pen and inkwell beneath it. At the bottom center of the plate reads Minneapolis, Minn.
A border, the top consisting of small, nude, human-like creatures performing an autopsy on a larger human. Beneath the title text are various potted plants, laboratory artifacts, and a caduceus. approximately 1775, Newburyport, Mass.
Subject (Name):
Swett, John, 1830-1913
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Caduceus, Candles, Chemical apparatus, Children, Medical historians, and Nature
Greenway, James Cowan Yale University. School of Medicine
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
The Greenway family crest, with shelves of books behind it and columns framing it. Beneath is the phrase Suaviter Quam VI. At the bottom, with space in which to write, are the words: "Book" and "Shelf".
Subject (Name):
Greenway, James C. (James Cowan), 1903-1989 and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Books, Globes, Heraldic bookplates, Nature, Physicians, and Shields
Amson, John, M.D. Yale University. School of Medicine
Published / Created:
19th century
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A shield bearing two wide stripe with three dots apiece against a dark background. This is surrounded by decorative curlicues and flowers, and shows a stork perched on top. Below is the phrase Quod sis esse Velis.
Subject (Name):
Amson, John and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Egrets, Heraldic bookplates, Physicians, and Shields
A fruit tree with a basket of fruit beneath it. Baumgartner graduated from Yale School of Medicine and served as head of the New York City Department of Health.
Subject (Name):
Baumgartner, Leona, 1902-1991 and Yale School of Medicine
General Electric Company Yale University. School of Medicine
Published / Created:
1934-1935
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
The initials 'GE' within a circle surrounded by another circle that reads "General Electric Company". Beneath this are fields in which to fill in names [Ap. + Mdse. Dept.]; Class [615]; Book [C593M]; GO-644-D/1m 10-10-34 [Dec. 12, 1935].
A woman and a bearded man attending a sick patient. On each side of the image is a caduceus. The insignias for McGill University, the University of Pennsylvania, Oxford, and Johns Hopkins are seen in the four corners. At the bottom reads Purchased thr...
Subject (Name):
Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Caduceus, Libraries, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, Medical colleges, Physicians, Shield, Snakes, Storks, Sun, and Surgeons
Library of the New Haven Hospital New Haven Hospital Yale University. School of Medicine
Published / Created:
approximately late 19th century
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A caduceus inside a circle, with the phrase Deo Adjuvante below. The phrase Nosocomium Generale Reipublic√¶ Connecticutensis encircles the image. Below, in the space labeled "Gift of", it is signed with the name 'J. K. Thacher, M.D.'
Subject (Name):
New Haven Hospital
Subject (Topic):
Caduceus, Hospitals, Libraries, and New Haven Hospital