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

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    Subject(s)
    Contains
    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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