Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1G

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DS ID:

DS28912

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1G

Title:

Majmūʻah fī al-ṭibb / / مجموعة في الطب /

Scribe:

Samarqandī, ʻUthmān ibn ʻAlī, active 12th century / سمرقندي، عثمان بن علي، active 12th century Tūqātī, Muḥammad Amīn ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 18th century / توقاتي، محمد امين بن عبد الله، active 18th century

Date:

1176 and 1726

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 372 leaves : paper ; 255 x 165 (180 x 120) mm. bound to 255 x 175.

Note:

Ms. composite codex.
Title from inscription on the lower edge of the textblock.
Marginal notes (mostly ḥāshiyah from the author, copied by the same hand, see fol. 42b, 53a). Smaller leaves are inserted between the ms. leaves, with inscriptions by the same hand as the main text (mostly ḥāshiyah from the author, see between fol. 51 and 52; 112-113; 211-212). On fol. 1a: Obliterated seal impression. On fol. 41a (i.e., fol. 1a of the original ms.) is a table of contents.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 378 + i ; quires signed using Arabic numerals in the form "7 min 3" (often cut off due to the trimming of the leaves, but still visible on some quires, see fol. 96a, 126a, 136a, 146a, 156a) ; signs in the upper corner and lower corner of the opposite leaf marking the middle of the quire (see fol. 130-131; 220-221) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled ; fol. 1b-2a frame-ruled in gold and black.
Description: The first text is written in nastaʻlīq in black ink ; from text 2 on: written in careful and professional vocalized medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown) ; rubricated ; watermarks.
Paper: Light cream glazed paper with horizontal laid lines visible
Origin: Copied by ʻUthmān ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī in 572 H. (colophon of text 6, fol. 244b), except the first text, copied for Dāmādzādah Afandī by Muḥammad Amīn al-Ḥasanī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Tūqātī in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1138 in Wadī al-kabīr (colophon, fol. 40a).
On fol. 41a (i.e., first fol. of the original ms.): several ownership statements, one dated 623 H., one dated 8 Muharram 902 H. in Dār al-Islām Qusṭanṭinīyah; one signed Kamāl al-Dīn al-mutaṭabbib al-Mūsawī. On fol. 377a: Seal impresion with waqf inscription signed Dāmādzādah Fayḍ Allāh Efendi, dated 1174. On fol. 377b: Ownership statements.
Acquired by Ananikian from Egypt, 1924.

Keyword:

Colored papers

Blind tooled bindings

Medicine, Greek and Roman

Therapeutics

Early works

Pulse

Medicine, Arab

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Fever

Hygiene

Translations

Arabic language

Methodism (Ancient medicine)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9948087443506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/82636753-a147-487f-ad00-3b757a0681de/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University