Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 561H [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

An iambic poem on the elements of medicine divided into two divisions: (1) Theory, (2) Practice. A number of sections deal with anatomy.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Title on upper edge of text block semi-illegible.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 58 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 13 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition; first and last folios repaired.
• Colophon: تم الجزء والعمل بحمد الله وعونه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي الحمد لله قال الشيخ الرييس ابو الحسن على بن عبد الله بن سينا رحمه الله لما جرت عادة الحکما وفضلا القدما ...

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Blue paper pastedowns. Binding loose. Quires not currently sewn.

Provenance

Seal impression of ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlī Fārisī al-Makkī al-Shāfiʻī dated 1238 (fol. 1a). Ownership signature on lower pastedown: ʻAlī ʻĪsá ʻAlī. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1093.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 246.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, pp. 2/3.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 2027².

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421959

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