Item Summary

Treatise explaining portions of the Qānūn fī al-ṭibb by Ibn Sīnā, in two parts (jumlah) (see fol. 2a). It is unclear whether this is Ibn Jumayʻ's text or a commentary.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب التصريح بالمكنون في تنقيح القانون / تأليف ... الفاضل والحكيم الكامل بطلميوس عصره وجالينوس دهره ابي العشاير هبة الله بن زين بن حسن بن افرائم بن يعقوب بن اسماعيل بن جميع الاسراييلي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Taṣrīḥ bi-al-maknūn fī tanqīḥ al-Qānūn / taʼlīf al-[---] al-fāḍil wa-al-ḥakīm al-kāmil Baṭlamyūs ʻaṣrihi wa-Jālīnūs dahrihi Abī al-ʻAshāyir Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn ibn Ḥasan ibn Ifrāʼim ibn Yaʻqūb ibn Ismāʻīl ibn Jumayʻ al-Isrāyīlī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 556H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pz50gw161
Publisher
Cairo, [1204?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1204
Format
Manuscript
Extent
120 leaves : paper ; 230 x 160 (160 x 110) mm. bound to 230 x 165 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statements on fol. 1a, including one dated Jumādá al-Awwal 890 [May-June 1485] in the name of Sayyid Khaṭṭābī al-Munajjim al-Māzandarānī in Sīrūz (fī bilād al-Yūnān) [Serez, Macedonia], who bought the copy for 55 Ottoman Dirhams ; one in the name of Manṣūr ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mutaṭabbib al-Masīḥī. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), 1526
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1092
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 458/f
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a). The same title appears in the preamble of the text (fol. 2a, l. 12-13).
Incipit: قال هبة الله كنت يا سيّدى اطال الله بقاك ... فاوضتنى فى امر كتاب الريس ابى على بن عبد الله بن سينا الملقّب بالقانون ذكرت ما بلغك ... [2أ] ... الجملة الاولى في القول المجمل على جملة الكتاب وحواشيه العراقية والاشارة الى السبيل التى سلكها فى اصلاحه
Explicit: المقالة السادسة ... كان جالينوس يستعمله الحواشى العراقية هذه نسخة الفاوينا الرومية بعينها وقد سلف ذكرها فى باب المعاجين مقادير المفردات هناك غير هذه هذا اخر ما فيّد من الحواشي على الكتاب الخامس من القانون وقد تمّ الكلام على جميع الكتاب على ما شرطه المولف وبتمامها تم الكتاب ولله المجد والمنة سرمدًا
Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in casual naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with thick laid lines (vertical) and a few chain lines, and pulp, visible ; laid lines visible on the surface. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a. Title on tail of text block.
Collation: Paper, fol. 120 ; 1¹⁰ (-1, before the first fol.) 2-11¹⁰ 12¹⁰ (+1, after last fol.) ; the quires are numbered (cut off due to the trimming of the leaves).
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in al-Qāhirah al-ʻAbbāsīyah, fī al-Dawlah al-ʻādilīyah, on the last day (salkh) of Shaʻbān 600 [May 1204], from an autograph. The copyist adds that he did not collate the manuscript (colophon, fol. 120a).
Inscription in Western numerals on the pastedown of the upper cover: "883" (corresponds to Brill's list. See Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs, no. 556).
Other shelfmark: This ms. is also known as New Series 2017 (see Mach, R. and E. Ormsby. Handlist (New Series), no. 1526)
Binding Note
Marbled paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Red-brown leather edges and spine. Paper pastedown.

Discovery Information

Subject
Medicine, Arab—12th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Avicenna 980-1037—Qānūn fī al-ṭibb

Physical Characteristics

File Count
244

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/169dd6aa-b46b-485f-9a6b-7d11c300acaf/manifest