Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 430L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Colored papers [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on medicine composed and translated from Arabic works.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 312a).
• Marginal notes and summaries. Inserts. Label on lower cover: "SS 1020". Stamp in purple ink (fol. 1b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 312 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21-22 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; some paper tinted red ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: According to colophon, copied 5 Rajab 1230 (leaf 312a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صحيح ترين كلامى كه مشامه ناطقه ...
• Colophon: تمام شد جلد اول طب اكبر بعون الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه بتاريخ پنجم ماه رجب سنه 1230

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-tooled frame. Spine repaired in dark brown leather.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 430

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

858864484

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