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كتاب تقويم الابدان بمداوات الامراض / يحيى بن عيسى بن علي بن جزلة.
Kitāb Taqwīm al-abdān bi-mudāwāt al-amrāḍ / Yaḥyá ibn ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī ibn Jazlah.
Author
Ibn Jazlah, Yaḥyá ibn ʻĪsá, -1100
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ابن جزلة، يحيى بن عيسى، -1100
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Uniform title
Taqwīm al-abdān bi-mudāwāt al-amrāḍ
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تقويم الابدان بمداوات الامراض
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[not after 1852]
Description
46 leaves : paper ; 318 x 230 (285-296 x 180-205) mm bound to 316 x 233 mm.
Details
Subject(s)
Medicine, Arab
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Tables
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Donor
Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
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Related name
Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 563Hq
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Rare books genre
Blind tooled bindings
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Headbands
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Autographs
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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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