Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Ī̄wānī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, active 16th century [Browse]

Related name

• ايواني، عبد الله بن عبد العزيز، active 16th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 565H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• diagrams [Browse]

Summary note

A medical treatise on the making of theriacs.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. It is stated in the colophon that the work was composed 667 [1268]. Diagram on fol. 24a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 159 + ii ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 35 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; edges have been trimmed ; MS in very good condition. MS is rare.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 23 or 24 Rajab 954 by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Īwānī (fol. 159a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عونك اللهم الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان وجعل بدنه اشرفه الابدان ... اما بعد فان اهل عصرنا وزمننا قد قلت منهم الهمم عن الفحص في اسرار العلوم والحكم خصوصا علم الطب ...
• Colophon: وابتداء الکتابة في هذه النسخة في ثالث او رابع عشرين شهر رجب سنة اربع وخمسين وتسعمائة وانتهائها [انتهاؤها] في الليلة المذکورة ولله الحمد على الاعانة في ذلك وامثاله. تم والحمد لله رب العالمين

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and decorative edging. Gold-specked light blue paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Muṣṭafá Baḥjat, raʼīs al-aṭibbāʼ al-[...]; seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1104.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 506.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

جامع الافتراق

Title from lower edge of text block

• Jāmiʻ al-iftirāq

OCLC

1340421651

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