Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 555H [Browse]

Summary note

The first and a part of the second divisions of the first book of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. (Corresponds to part I, pp. 1-40 of the Roman edition.). MS incomplete at the end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal notes and glosses. On three folios before the first occur the title of a work given as Sharḥ al-Mūjaz fī al-ṭibb and the introduction and a part of the table of contents of the work.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 192 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; lacks some iʻjām diacritical marks ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: Probably from the 17th century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله حمدا ... قال الشيخ الرئيس ابو علي الحسين بن سينا ... وبعد فقد التمس منى بعض خلص اخوانى ...
• Ending: ويکون الخريف هو المقابل له في مثل بلادنا

Binding note

Unbound. Sewn but many quires and folios are loose.

Provenance

Obscured ownership signature on fol. 4a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1081.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ al-Mūjaz fī al-ṭibb. Selections.
• شرح الموجز في الطب. مختارات.

OCLC

1340424001

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