Details

Subject(s)

• Medicine, Arab [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

• Qūṣūnī, Madyan ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• قوصوني، مدين بن عبد الرحمن [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 567H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on drugs, based on the Jāmiʻ mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah by Ibn al-Bayṭār (d. 646/1248). The text is followed on fol. 240a-b by a note written by the same hand as the main text, relating a saying by the author to the effect that he completed this work on Monday 25 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 711. Another note on fol. 240b in the hand of Madyan ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, physician at the Dār al-Shifā in Cairo (Miṣr), reports an autograph ijāzah from the author for Muẓaffar al-Dīn Fatḥ Allāh dated beginning of Muḥarram 748, found in another copy of the text. This is surrounded by annotations with details on the name of the author.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a). The end of the line, apparently bearing the date of composition of the text, is obliterated. The same title appears in the colophon (fol. 240a) and on the tail of the textblock.
• Some marginal annotations, mainly collation notes. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including ownership statements and a collational note. Verses of poetry in Persian by a later hand on fol. 240b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 240 + i ; catchwords ; quinions ; collation notes.
• Layout: 29 lines per page.
• Description: Written in medium small square script in black ink ; rubricated ; light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible.
• Decoration: Frame-ruled in gold, black and blue and large dots in gold for text-stops on fol. 1b-2a. The basmalah is written in gold in a cartouche defined by lines in gold outlined in black and a running pattern of crosses and dots on fol. 1b.
• Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذى لا تكتنه حقييقة معرفته العلوم والافهام ولا تحيط بكنه ذاته العقول والاوهام ابتدع الاجرام العلوية ... وبعد فانه لما كان الانسان بل الحيوان جملة من المركبات العنصرية
• Explicit: و هى مجربة فى الصاق الحراحات طرية ويابسة درا فافهمه والله اعلم تم كتاب ما لا يسع الطبيب جهله بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله اولا واخرا وباطنا وظاهرا وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-stamped and -tooled decorative frame and edging. Brown marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers. Endbands. Woven bookmark.

Provenance

Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, including one in the name of Madyan al-ṭabīb dated 993 H., with impression of his seal and mention of the prize; of Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-ṭabīb al-awwal bi-māristān sulṭān Aḥmad Khān, dated '137; of Muṣṭafá ibn Masʻūd, dated '213. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1106
• Ullman, M. Die Medizin, 285
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 169 ; SII

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

228011983

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