Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 577H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A medical dictionary arranged alphabetically.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from label on upper cover.
• Marginal notes. Folios 1, 2, 65-68 and 71 are by a later hand. MS incomplete at beginning and end. Seal impressions on fol. 69a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 72 + ii ; catchwords ; quires signed: 6 (fol. 5a)-11 (fol. 55a) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15-21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in black ; watermarks (replacement folios only: shield with star topped by a crown) ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten and damaged by rodents with loose and mended folios.
• Incipit: حرف الالف الوسن يوفا في ... رجل الغراب
• Ending: يربوع حيوان طويل الذنب قصير اليدين يشبه الفار حار في ... ينفع من الامراض الباردة بالمفاصل والفالج ووجع الظهر ويفتت الحصى ويدر کيف اسهل

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather with light brown leather on the spine. Gold-tooled decorative edging. Binding badly damaged with most of the spine missing.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1118.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1345072362

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