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كتاب الطيب. كتاب يوحنا ابن ماسويه في جواهر الطيب المفردة باسمائها وصفاتها ومعادنها.
[Kitāb al-Ṭīb]. Kitāb Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh fī jawāhir al-ṭīb al-mufradah bi-asmāʼihā wa-ṣifātihā wa-maʻādinihā.
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[1194]
Description
26 leaves : paper ; 170 x 125 (125 x 85) mm bound to 175 x 130 mm
Details
Subject(s)
Perfumes
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Islamic Empire
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Contains
Khāzin, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, active 1030.
Kitāb al-Ṭīb.
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خازن، محمد بن الحسن، active 1030.
كتاب الطيب.
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Ibn Māsawayh, Yūḥannā, -857 or 858.
Jawāhir al-ṭīb al-mufradah.
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ابن ماسويه، يوحنا، -857 or 858.
جواهر الطيب المفردة.
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Alhazen, 965-1039.
Kitāb al-Ṭīb.
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ابن الهيثم 965-1039.
كتاب الطيب.
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Summary note
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.
Contents
1. fol. 1a-12b: [Kitāb al-Ṭīb / li-Abī al-Ḥasan al-Khāzin.]
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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