Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 184L

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DS ID:

DS28988

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 184L

Title:

Ṭibb al-Raḥmān ... [etc / طب الرحمن ... الخ

Scribe:

Balīkānī, Muḥammad ibn Khiḍr, active 18th century / بليكاني، محمد بن خضر، active 18th century

Date:

approximately 1750

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 114 leaves : paper ; 162 x 103 (115-135 x 70-80) mm bound to 167 x 110 mm.

Note:

Ms. composite codex.
A work on medicine followed by a book of prayer.
Title from introduction of first work (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "346 KE 346".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 114 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 10-17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (cross?, three crescents, roman-alphabet lettering "A Fa..." and other letting in cartouches) ; MS in fair condition.
Decoration: [Aḥsan al-ṣalāh] Basmalah written in the shape of double-headed bird at beginning of text (fol. 57a). Basmalah written in the shape of a bird at end of preface (fol. 60a). Basmalah[?] written in the shape of a triangle (fol. 62b).
Origin: [Aḥsan al-ṣalāh] Copy completed Ramaḍān 1163 by Muḥammad ibn Khiḍr Balīkānī for the author's brother (fol. 114a).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Keyword:

Watermarks

Headbands

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632

Prayers and devotions

Early works

Medicine, Arab

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Islam

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963585683506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/12059f39-0b2e-4de0-88bd-a7adba1dbfc4/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University