Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 558H

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DS ID:

DS28822

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 558H

Title:

Mūjiz fī al-ṭibb / موجز في الطب

Mūjiz al-Qānūn

Author:

Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm, 1210 or 1211-1288 / ابن النفيس، علي بن ابي الحزم

Ibn al-Nafis WIKIDATA

Date:

1393

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 187 leaves: paper ; 170 x 85 (112 x 50) mm. bound to 170 x 90 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from inscription on the upper margin of fol. 3b. The title appears on a label pasted on the fore-edge flap of the slipcase as "Matn Mūjiz min al-ṭibb".
Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام الحبر قدوة العلاما ورئيس الحكماء فريد دهره ووحيد عصره ابو الحسين علاء الدين علي ابن ابى الحسن القرشى المتطبّب قدس الله روحه وبعد فقد رتّبت هذا الكتاب علي اربعة فنون الفن الاول فى قواعد جزءى الطب اعنى علمية وعملية بقول كلى
Explicit: وكان تدبيرهم واحدا و استعملوا دواء جالينوس وغيره من العلاج المذكور تم الكتاب
Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for the basmalah, headings and overlining. Soft dark cream paper with laid and chain lines and pulp visible. Fol. 1-2 and 186-187 are later additions, with inscriptions. Marginal annotations. Topics written vertically in red on the margins.
Collation: Paper, fol. 187 ; 18 (-2 at the beginning of the quire ; + 2 later added leaves, European paper, fol. 1-2) 2-228 238 (+1 ; +2 later added leaves, European paper).
Origin: Copy completed at the end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 795 [March 1393] by Masʻūd ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī (colophon, fol. 178b).
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Sources

slipcases

Islamic Empire

Manuscripts, Arabic

Fourteenth century

History

New Jersey--Princeton

Physicians--Certification

Muslim scholars

Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (Avicenna)

Thirteenth century

Medicine, Arab

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9952161423506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/417c0e04-15a0-4b10-8f89-492ca9d8b9d5/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University