Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 554H

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2797

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 554H

Title:

Kitāb al-qānūn [fī] ʻilm al-ṭibb / كتاب القانون في علم الطب

Canon of Medicine

Author:

Avicenna, 980-1037 / ابن سينا، 980-1037

Avicenna WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Wāsiṭī, Muḥammad ibn Jaysh, active 12th century / واسطي، محمد بن جيش، active 12th century

Muḥammad ibn Jaysh Wāsiṭī WIKIDATA

Date:

1100-1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper 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:

Blind tooled bindings

Autographs

Leather doublures

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Medicine, Arab

Institutional Record:

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

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Holding Institution:

Princeton University