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كتاب النبض الصغير لجالينوس وشرحه لابي الفرج بن القف المسيحي
Kitāb al-Nabḍ al-ṣaghīr li-Jālīnūs wa-sharḥi-hi li-Abī al-Faraj ibn al-qaff al-masīḥī.
Author
Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Tayyib, -1043
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ابو الفرج عبد الله بن الطيب
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Uniform title
Tafsīr Kitāb al-Nabḍ al-ṣaghīr
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تفسير كتاب النبض الصغير
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[1689]
Description
i, 48, i leaves: paper, illustration ; 205 x 130 (155 x 80) mm. bound to 205 x 135 mm.
Details
Subject(s)
Pulse
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Early works to 1800
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Medicine, Arab
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History
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11th century
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Sources
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Galen
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De pulsibus libellus ad tirones
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Donor
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
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Related name
Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 553H
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Rare books genre
Autographs
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Stamps
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Watermarks
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Getty AAT genre
headpieces (layout features)
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illuminated manuscripts
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scientific illustrations (images)
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manuscripts (documents)
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Contains
Galen.
De pulsibus libellus ad tirones.
Arabic
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Summary note
Elegant copy of a commentary on Galen's Kitāb al-Nabḍ al-ṣaghīr, on pulse.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Inscription in Western numerals in black ink on the upper cover: "822". Drawing sketch representing some organ on fol. 48b.
Collation: Paper, fol. i, 48, i ; i (free endpaper) 1¹⁰ (+1 at beginning of quire) 2-4¹⁰ 5⁸ (-1 at the end of the quire) i (free endpaper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Written in medium small script in black ink ; rubricated ; watermarks.
Decoration: Elaborate headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol. 2b, executed in gold, orange, blue, green, and in black ink. The text is frame-ruled in gold and green on fol. 2b-3a, and gold and black on fol. 3b-4a.
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Wednesday 1 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1101 [Dec. 1689] (fol. 46a).
Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر التعليم الاول قال جالينوس قبل ال نبتدى بالكلام فى هذا الكتاب يجب ان ننظر فى الابواب الثمانية التى جرت العادة بتقديمها قبل كل كتاب ولنقدم الغرض على سايرها فنقول ان غرضه فى هذا الكتاب ان يعلمنا عن النبض واقسامه واسبابه والنبض هو حركة مكانية
Explicit: اذا ما كانت الرطوبة كثيرة وههنا ينقضى نعليمنا وبانقضايه تنقضى جملة الكتاب والحمد لله الموفق للخير والهادى الى سبيل الصواب
Binding note
Later type II (with flap) binding in tan leather and marbled paper and khakī leather. Modern paper pastedowns and free endpaper.
Provenance
Impression of one seal and several ownership statements on fol. 1a, two in the name of Muṣṭafá Bahjat, raʻīs al-aṭibbāʼ al-sulṭānī (dated '220 H.) ; one in the name of al-ṭabīb al-kāmil Muḥammad Çelebi ibn al-marḥūm Yūsuf Çelebi al-ʻAmrī (Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-ʻAmrī); one in the name of Muḥammad al-Amīn, known as Ibn al-Kharrāṭ al-Shāmī(?) al-Ḥanafī (dated Jumādá I 1137, partly obliterated). Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1095
Ullmann, M. Die Medizin, 157/3
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
شرح كتاب النبض الصغير لجالينوس
Title in Hitti, P. Garrett coll
Sharḥ Kitāb al-Nabḍ al-ṣaghīr
OCLC
227801650
Original language
تفسير كتاب النبض الصغير
كتاب النبض الصغير لجالينوس وشرحه لابي الفرج بن القف المسيحي
شرح كتاب النبض الصغير لجالينوس
Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر التعليم الاول قال جالينوس قبل ال نبتدى بالكلام فى هذا الكتاب يجب ان ننظر فى الابواب الثمانية التى جرت العادة بتقديمها قبل كل كتاب ولنقدم الغرض على سايرها فنقول ان غرضه فى هذا الكتاب ان يعلمنا عن النبض واقسامه واسبابه والنبض هو حركة مكانية
Explicit: اذا ما كانت الرطوبة كثيرة وههنا ينقضى نعليمنا وبانقضايه تنقضى جملة الكتاب والحمد لله الموفق للخير والهادى الى سبيل الصواب
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