Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1S

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DS ID:

DS28915

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 1S

Title:

Kitāb Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah al-maʻrūf bi-al-Malakī / / كتاب كامل الصناعة الطبية المعروف بالملكي /

Complete Book of the Medical Art

Author:

Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, active 10th century-11th century / مجوسي، علي بن العباس

'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi WIKIDATA

Place:

Ḥarrān

Harran TGN

Date:

1190].

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 356 leaves : paper ; 295 x 215 (225 x 160) mm. bound to 350 x 250 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from rubric (fol. 1b).
Opening rubric: كتاب كامل الصناعة الطبية المعروف بالملكي تاليف علي بن العباس تلميد ابي ماهر موسي ابن سيار للملك عضد الدولة(؟) رحمة الله عليه
Incipit: المقالة الاولى و هي كه [25] بابا الباب الاول في صدر الكتاب الباب الثاني ... الباب الاول في صدر الكتاب قال علي ابن عباس ان احق ما ابتدي به في جميع الامور
Explicit: مثقال مع شيء من شراب العسل نافع ان شاء الله تعالى
31 long lines per page. Very dense copy written in small naskh using black ink, with headings in red (maqāmah headings in larger script using black ink); collation notes in violet ink and black ink in juzʼ 1 (fol. 149a, on the margin, using the same violet ink: "بلغت المقابلة بحمد اللة ومنه في صفر سنة 588"); in black ink in juzʼ 2 (violet ink on fol. 231a). Glazed paper with visible laid lines...
Each maqālah begins with a table of contents using abjad.
Copied from a faulty copy ("min nuskhah saqīmah") by Barakāt ibn Thābit(?) ibn Ḥamd(?) ibn Barakāt ibn Bakār(?) in Ḥarrān during the first ten days of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 586 (colophon).
Ownership statements and seals on fol. 1a (4 inscriptions and 4 seals) and 353b (2 inscriptions and 1 seal). Some of the inscriptions link this copy to Iran.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Twelfth century

Turkey--Harran

New Jersey--Princeton

Medicine, Arab

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9948592133506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/442b1935-64d1-466e-b5ce-588a0ce8fd90/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University