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Subject(s)

• Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 1211-1288—Mūjaz fī al-ṭibb [Browse]
• 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. 560H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands (Binding) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Mūjaz al-Qānūn.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. The title appears on the edges of the text block.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 273 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition except several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
• Colophon: هذا آخر ما سمحت به قريحتي القريحتة وفطنتي الجريحة من شرح موجز القانون وقد وقع الشروع فيه واتمامه في احوال يصير به [بها] الذهن کليلا والقلب عليلا والمرجو من الناظر فيه اصلاح ما وقع فيه من الخطأ احسانا والله تعالى يجازيه به روحًا وريحانًا والحمدلله والمنة
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على افضل انبيائه محمد واله اجمعين وبعد فان الطب علم شريف لشرف موضوعه ووثاقة ولايله وشدة الحاجة اليه ...

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Light orange paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Ibn Ṭāhir ʻUmar dated 1105; Muṣṭafá Baḥjat dated 12[?]2; Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥakīm with his seal impression dated 1131 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1088.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 252.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, p. 13.
• Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, I, 581, 606, 629, 635.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

شرح موجز الاقسرائي

Title on upper edge of text block

• Sharḥ Mūjaz al-Aqsarāʼī

OCLC

1340425422

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