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. 557H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Avicenna, 980-1037. Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. [Browse]
• ابن سينا، 980-1037. قانون في الطب. [Browse]

Summary note

A compendium of medicine, being an abridgment of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 3a).
• Marginal summaries in red. Table of contents on the title page and two preceeding folios.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 107 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Foliation is on the verso of each leaf, rather than the recto.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (eagle, roman-alphabet lettes "GFA"; crown; coat-of-arms?) ; MS in very good condition.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الشيخ على ابن ابي الحزم القرشى تغمده الله برحمته قد رتبت هذا الکتاب على اربعة فنون ...
• Colophon: تم الکتاب الموجز في علم الطب تأليف ابي العلاء ابن الحسن علي ابن ابي الحسن القرشي المتطب [المتطبب] رحمه الله تعالى ونفع بتأليفه المسلمين امين

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red leather and green paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1084.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 497, VI, pp. 251/2.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, pp. 33, 45.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6275.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb al-Mūjaz fī ʻilm al-ṭibb
• كتاب الموجز في علم الطب
• Mūjaz fī ʻilm al-ṭibb
• موجز في علم الطب

Title from top edge of text block

• Mūjaz

OCLC

1340422604

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