Details

Subject(s)

• Antidotes—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Poisons—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 566H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A medical work on poisons and their antidotes.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• The author composed the MS for al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Abī al-Barakāt, fl. ca. 484 [1091], the minister of Sayyidah ḥurrah, 532 [1137], who played the dominant role in Ṣanʻāʼ after the death of the Ṣulayḥid al-Mukarram Aḥmad 473-484 [1080-1091].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 54 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition, some staining. MS is probably from the sixteenth century; extremely rare.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر الحمد لله الواحد بلا كيفية يقع بها الاحاطة عليه ... قال الحسين ابن ابى ثعلب ابن المبارك الطبيب اما بعد فان النعمة تزرع المحبة ومن احبا النعم استدام بقاوه ...
• Colophon: والله الموفق وبه المستعان ولا حول ولاقوة الا به وهو حسبنا ونعم الوکيل. نعم المولى ونعم النصير

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Gold- and blind-tooled geometric design covering entirety of covers. Gold-speckled blue paper pastedowns and gold-speckled flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn Badr al-Dīn al-? (fol. 54b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1098.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 199.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• كتاب المنقذ من الهلكة في دفع مضار السموم المهلكة
• كتاب المنقذ في اعلاج المسموم

Title from folio facing title page

• Kitāb al-Munqidh min al-halakah fī dafʻ maḍārr al-samūm al-muhlikah

Title from lower edge of text block

• Kitāb al-Munqidh fī iʻlāj al-masmūm

OCLC

1340424761

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