Details

Subject(s)

• Medicine, Arab—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 573H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

An urjūzah on medicine.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. Statement that the MS has 6 quires and 60 leaves (fol. (1)a). Title page and the two folios following the end of the text contain longer notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 58 + (1) ; catchwords ; quires signed: 1-6 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page in two columns.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (hand with a star and the roman-alphabet letters "[?]RA") ; MS in fair condition; badly stained with dampness with many loose and some mended folios.
• Ownership signatures: ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad Jabrāyil [obscured]; partially obscured signature dated 1009; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Mālikī [..]; seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. يقول راجي کرم الله العلي * محمد بن دانيال الموصلي
• Colophon: ولنختم القول بحمد الله * حمدا اذا عد بلا تناهي * مصلىن دائم الاىام * على النبي المصطفى التهامي * وآله وصحبه وعترته * وکل من اخلص في محبته

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Tan paper pastedowns.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1105.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340422040

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