Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 570H

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DS ID:

DS29145

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 570H

Title:

Kitāb Taʼsīs al-ṣiḥḥah bi-sharḥ al-Lamḥah / / كتاب تأسيس الصحة بشرح اللمحة /

Author:

ʻAyntābī, Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad, 1409-1496 / عينتابي، محمود بن احمد

Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ʻAyntābī WIKIDATA

Place:

Cairo

Cairo TGN

Date:

1465

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii, 294, ii leaves: paper ; 270 x 175 (192 x 135) mm. bound to 268 x 180 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in elegant medium large naskh in black ink, with use of red and green ink. The text is framed within a gold and black border on fol. 1b-2a. Thick light cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. The paper is frame-ruled. Fol. (ii) is a latter addition on glazed European paper with watermark ("Tre Lune"). Marginal annotations. Collation...
Decoration: Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in blue, gold, and some red on fol. 1a. A cartouche on the upper part of the page bears the title written in blue(?) on a gold ground and a rinceau in blue. To the left of this cartouche is a small medallion in gold and red. The cartouche and medallion are outlined in blue. The rest of the page has a central large twelve petal roundel executed in...
Collation: Paper, fol. ii, 294, ii ; i (free endpaper) + i (European glazed paper) + 110 (-1, before fol. 1) 2-2910 30 (5 leaves) + i (European glazed paper) +i (free endpaper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals.
Origin: Copy completed on 18 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 870 [Dec. 8, 1465] by Abū al-Wafā Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl (fol. 292b).
Patronage: Copied for Shams al-Dīn al-Qūṣūnī, physician in Cairo (Miṣr) (illuminated title page, fol. 1a).
Three ownership statements on fol. (ii)a, one dated 1152 H. [1739 or 40], another with a seal with the inscription "Muṣṭafá Shawkat". Small circular seal with floral motif and mention "Madyan". on fol. 292b. Inscription "S26" in Roman script, in black ink on the pastedown of the upper cover. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Egypt--Cairo

Fifteenth century

illuminated manuscripts

Islamic Empire

illuminations (paintings)

title pages

New Jersey--Princeton

Egypt

Medicine, Arab

Ibn Amīn al-Dawlah, al-ʻAfīf, active 15th century. Lamḥah al-ʻAfīfīyah fī al-ṭibb

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9950819503506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fca781ba-7d83-446e-9b7f-7e24025d3874/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University