Item Summary

Treatise on medicine composed and translated from Arabic works.

Descriptive Information

Title
طب اکبر.
Transliterated Title
Ṭibb-i Akbar.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 430L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2v23w689t
Publisher
5 Rajab 1230 [13 June 1815]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1815
Format
Manuscript
Extent
312 leaves : paper ; 264 x 166 (190-205 x 110) mm bound to 260 x 167 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 430
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 312a).
Marginal notes and summaries. Inserts. Label on lower cover: "SS 1020". Stamp in purple ink (fol. 1b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 312 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21-22 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some paper tinted red ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon, copied 5 Rajab 1230 (leaf 312a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صحيح ترين كلامى كه مشامه ناطقه ...
Colophon: تمام شد جلد اول طب اكبر بعون الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه بتاريخ پنجم ماه رجب سنه 1230
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-tooled frame. Spine repaired in dark brown leather.

Discovery Information

Subject
Medicine, Arab
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Stamps
Gold tooled bindings
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
636

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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