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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]

Scribe

• Ḥasanī al-Ḥusaynī al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī, ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Qawm al-Dīn Ḥusayn, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 559H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Mūjaz fī al-ṭibb.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. [i]a).
• Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries in red. It is stated in the original colophon that the work was composed 841 [1438]. A few inscriptions and signatures on fol. 1a and 373b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 373 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 24 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Text commented upon overlined in red ; most of the paper lightly tinted red or blue ; MS in good condition except several folios are worm-eaten.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 12 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1013 in Shīrāz by ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Qawm al-Dīn Ḥusayn al-Ḥasanī al-Ḥusaynī al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī (fol. 373a).
• Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام العالم الكامل علاء الدين على بن ابى الحزم ... تفعل هنا للمبالغة مثل تقدس وتمجد ...
• Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه [هذا] الکتاب في بلدة شيراز في محل عصر يوم الاربعا اثنا [اثني] عشر شهر ربيع الثاني سنة ثلث وعشر والف من الهجرة النبوية المحمدية عم على يد عبد[ه] الضعيف المحتاج لعناية الله تعالى عبدالسلام بن قوم الدين حسين الحسني الحسيني الطباطبا في نمسابه بفارس غفراه [الله] عنهما ولوالديهما ولمن نظر فيه.

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Orange paper pastedowns. Endbands. Spine and lower edge of binding repaired with light brown leather.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Maʻṭamāwī al-Ṭabīb dated 1184 with a seal impression reading "Muḥammad" and the date 1152 (fol. ia); Muṣṭafá Baḥjat, raʼīs aṭibbāʼ al-sulṭānī?; Muḥammad Bāqir? with his seal impression; illegible signature with a seal impression; erased name dated 1065 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1089.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 252.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, p. 21.
• A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 785.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1348.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ ṭibb Nafīsī
• شرح طب نفيسي
• نفيسي شرح موجز

Title on lower edge of text block

• Nafīsī Sharḥ Mūjaz

OCLC

1340420878

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