Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 578H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• diagrams [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of short medical treatises on ophthalmology. The first treatise is Kitāb li-dawān al-ʻayn.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from heading (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. Text on folios 18b and 19a inverted. Small diagram on fol. 27a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 40 ; single quire ; foliated in red ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 22-25 lines per page ; frame-ruled with double-red line.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1270 (fol. 40b).
• Incipit: بسم اللهالرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين ولا حولا ولا قوت الا بالله ... فهذا کتاب لدوان [لدواء] العين من كتاب الارشاد احوال العين ...
• Colophon: تمت [تم] الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب سنة 1270 وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم

Binding note

Contemporaneous type III (without flap) binding in paper. Sewing holes present but not currently sewn.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1119.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb li-dawān al-ʻayn.
• كتاب لدوان العين.

OCLC

1345072490

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