كتاب الاشارات والتنبيهات

Kitāb al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt.

Author
Avicenna, 980-1037 [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1364? or 1558?]
Description
89, i leaves: paper ; 190 x 135 (111 x 80) mm. bound to 194 x 152 mm.

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Special Collections - Manuscripts Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4568Y Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Summary note
    Aceph. copy of al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt, corresponding to ed. Forget, p. 90, l. 13-end.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from colophon (fol. 89a).
    • 13 lines per page. Written in clear medium small naskh, in black ink with use of red. Thick dark cream paper with chain and laid lines visible. Some leaves seem to be later replacements of original folios (see fol. 8, 40-47, 73-74, 83-84, glazed European paper with watermark). Several short excerpts on fol. 89b. A bifolio with a commentary by another hand is placed between the upper cover and the first fol. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 306".
    • Copied by Muḥammad ibn Mīkāʼīl in the middle decade of Jumādá al-Ākhir 765 [or 965?] (colophon, fol. 89a).
    • Collation: Paper, fol. 89 ; 1¹⁰ (-1, before fol. 1) 2-8¹⁰ 9¹⁰ (+1, fol. 89) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. The quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "al-thānī".
    • Beginning (as extant): الطرفين يلقاه باسره ... وهم واشارة ومن الناس من يكاد يقول بهذا التاليف
    • Explicit: متاسيا بك فان اذعت هذا العلم واضعته فالله بيني وبينك وكفي بالله وكيلاً تم كتاب الاشارات والتنبيهات
    Binding note
    Brown leather over pasteboard for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Marbled paper pasted on both covers.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Mach, R. Yahuda, 3006
    Other format(s)
    Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    OCLC
    73821606
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