Item Summary

A commentary on al-Mūjaz fī al-ṭibb.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح موجز نفيسي
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ Mūjaz Nafīsī
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 559H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcsx61dx91z
Publisher
12 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1013 [September 7, 1604?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1604
Format
Manuscript
Extent
373 leaves : paper ; 217 x 135 (150 x 75) mm. bound to 216 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Maʻṭamāwī al-Ṭabīb dated 1184 with a seal impression reading "Muḥammad" and the date 1152 (fol. ia); Muṣṭafá Baḥjat, raʼīs aṭibbāʼ al-sulṭānī?; Muḥammad Bāqir? with his seal impression; illegible signature with a seal impression; erased name dated 1065 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1089.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 252.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, p. 21.
A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 785.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1348.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. [i]a).
Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries in red. It is stated in the original colophon that the work was composed 841 [1438]. A few inscriptions and signatures on fol. 1a and 373b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 373 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 24 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Text commented upon overlined in red ; most of the paper lightly tinted red or blue ; MS in good condition except several folios are worm-eaten.
Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 12 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1013 in Shīrāz by ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Qawm al-Dīn Ḥusayn al-Ḥasanī al-Ḥusaynī al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī (fol. 373a).
Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام العالم الكامل علاء الدين على بن ابى الحزم ... تفعل هنا للمبالغة مثل تقدس وتمجد ...
Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه [هذا] الکتاب في بلدة شيراز في محل عصر يوم الاربعا اثنا [اثني] عشر شهر ربيع الثاني سنة ثلث وعشر والف من الهجرة النبوية المحمدية عم على يد عبد[ه] الضعيف المحتاج لعناية الله تعالى عبدالسلام بن قوم الدين حسين الحسني الحسيني الطباطبا في نمسابه بفارس غفراه [الله] عنهما ولوالديهما ولمن نظر فيه.
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Orange paper pastedowns. Endbands. Spine and lower edge of binding repaired with light brown leather.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn al-Nafīs, ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm 1210 or 1211-1288—Mūjaz fī al-ṭibb
Medicine, Arab
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Stamps
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
760

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/67461d46-ebc2-44c1-9d92-45b2f02edbb5/manifest