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كتاب المنقذ من الهلكة في دفع السمائية المهلكة / لابن ثعلب.
Kitāb al-Munqidh min al-halakah fī dafʻ al-samāʼīyah al-muhlikah / li-Ibn Thaʻlab.
1500-1599
A medical work on poisons and their antidotes.
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- Author
- Ibn al-Mubārak, al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Thaʻlab, -approximately 1373
- ابن المبارك، الحسن بن ابي ثعلب، -approximately 1373
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 566H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A medical work on poisons and their antidotes.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب المنقذ من الهلكة في دفع السمائية المهلكة / لابن ثعلب.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Munqidh min al-halakah fī dafʻ al-samāʼīyah al-muhlikah / li-Ibn Thaʻlab.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 566H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrv0434720
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1500-1599
- Extent
- 54 leaves : paper ; 242 x 167 (190 x 122) mm. bound to 242 x 171 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn Badr al-Dīn al-? (fol. 54b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1098.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 199.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- The author composed the MS for al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Abī al-Barakāt, fl. ca. 484 [1091], the minister of Sayyidah ḥurrah, 532 [1137], who played the dominant role in Ṣanʻāʼ after the death of the Ṣulayḥid al-Mukarram Aḥmad 473-484 [1080-1091].
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 54 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 21 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition, some staining. MS is probably from the sixteenth century; extremely rare.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر الحمد لله الواحد بلا كيفية يقع بها الاحاطة عليه ... قال الحسين ابن ابى ثعلب ابن المبارك الطبيب اما بعد فان النعمة تزرع المحبة ومن احبا النعم استدام بقاوه ...
- Colophon: والله الموفق وبه المستعان ولا حول ولاقوة الا به وهو حسبنا ونعم الوکيل. نعم المولى ونعم النصير
- Binding Note
- Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Gold- and blind-tooled geometric design covering entirety of covers. Gold-sprinkled blue paper pastedowns and gold-speckled flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 123
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cab278eb-fb24-403a-ba00-28b451445ebe/manifest