Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 554H.

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DS ID:

DS2797

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 554H.

Title:

Kitāb al-qānūn fī ʻilm al-ṭibb.

Date:

1100-1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 volumes (231, 237 leaves) : paper ; 235-248 x 172-185 (192 x 120-130) mm bound to 233-248 x 172-183 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from volume 3, title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Obscured and missing text on title pages including one inscription on volume 3 dated 1019 H.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 231 + i + 237 + i ; volume 3 foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17-19 lines per page.
Description: Ruricated ; some vowel signs ; MS in good condition except several folios are worm-eaten and mended and the first two folios in both volumes are defective;
Origin: Volume 3 Probably copied in the second half of the sixth Muslim century -- Volume 4 Copied 596 in Baghdād (Madīnat al-Salam al-maḥrūsah) by Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Jaysh ibn Abī al-Faraj al-Qāriʼ al-Wāsiṭī (vol. 4, fol. 236b)
Volume 3 has obscured ownership signature of Barakah ibnat ʻAlī (fol. 231b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Leather doublures

Autographs

Blind tooled bindings

Manuscripts, Arabic

Medicine, Arab

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963575943506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4ec34f36-c532-44b9-8a9e-949313c1724f/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University