Collection of two treatises on aromatic substances. Incomplete at end and beginning.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 26 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown) ; MS in poor condition. Text badly faded, stained with dampness and mildewed.
Paper: Thick soft dark cream paper with chain lines and pulp visible. The edges of the paper are not trimmed.
Origin: [Kitāb al-Ṭīb] According to colophon copied on Monday 10 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 590 [April 4, 1194] from an autograph copy dated Ghaznah, Thursday 21(?) Jumādá al-Ūlá 421 [May 27, 1030] (fol. 12a-b). (fol. 12a-b).
Incipit: [كتاب الطيب] وليس [---] اصل كل مسك هو دم مجتمع في [---] الغزال والذي يقال انّ رعي هذا الغزال -- [كتاب يوحنا ابن ماسويه] لاصول الخمسة المسك والعنبر والعود والكافور والزعفران الافاوية السنبل القرنفل الصندل الجوزبوا
Explicit: [كتاب الطيب] ويترك ليحول عليه الحول فحينيذ يصلح للغالية ومنه ما يحلب على جهته غير مربي ولا يصلح للادوية والتدهين به تم الكتاب -- [كتاب يوحنا ابن ماسويه] \\ يوخذ عشرة مثاقيل مسك مسحوق وخمسة مثاقيل عنبر ويُذَوَّب العنبر على الوصف المتقدم ويُطرح عليه المسك
Binding note
Later type III (without flap) binding in blue cardboard.
2. fol. 13a-26b: Kitāb Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh fī jawāhir al-ṭīb al-mufradah bi-asmāʼihā wa-ṣifātihā wa-maʻādinihā / Ibn Māsawayh.
Provenance
Acquired from Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 2154.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SN I, 902; I, 232 (3/4) ; SI.
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 2154
Other format(s)
Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
Other title(s)
مجموعة
Title in Hitti, P. Garrett coll
Majmūʻah
OCLC
180204095
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