Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 563Hq [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A work on medicine giving, in the form of tables modeled after star tables, the causes of diseases and ailments, their symptoms, emergency treatment and regular treatment. The author wrote his work for the ʻAbbāsid caliph al-Muqtadī bi-Amr Allāh 467-487 [1075-1094].

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 46 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: Text largely presented in the form of tables with red ruling.
• Description: Rubricated ; written in different hands ; MS in poor condition, stained with dampness and mended.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي يسبح کل شي بکماله الذي به صلاح ما له تضن بعمره ان يعين علامته وتدبيره ...
• Ending: ... اذا طال مکث البلغم اللزج في العضو ازداد غلظا ولزوجة حتى

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Yellow paper pastedowns. Muti-colored endbands. Re-used folios visible through damage to binding.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Salām Abū ? al-Sharʻī dated 1269 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1099.
• Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʻah, ʻUyūn al-anbāʼ (1884), I, p. 255.
• Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), III, p. 256.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 391/2.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2947¹.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340423529

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