Item Summary

First part of Majūsī's Treatise on medicine, comprising Maqālah 1-10.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب كامل الصناعة الطبية المعروفة بالملكي / صنّفه علي بن العباس المطبب المجوسي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah al-maʻrūfah bi-al-Malakī / ṣannafahu ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās al-muṭabbib al-Majūsī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 171Lq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9946831833506421
Publisher
29 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1111 [October 24, 1699]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
215 leaves : paper ; 357 x 235 (265 x 154) mm bound to 357 x 235 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statements and inscriptions in French and Persian (fol. 1a); seal (fol. 1b, repeated on fol. 215 a-b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1078
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, p. 237/17-1
Sezgin, F. GAS, III, p. 321-322
Ullmann, M. Medizin, p. 140-146
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from opening lines (fol. 1b).
A few marginal notes. Each maqālah begins with a table of contents using ordinal numerals for each bāb. Long colophon ending with a verse and mentioning the collation of parts of this copy (8 maqālah) with a copy by a physician called Mīrzā Mụhammad Ṣāliḥ al-Ardabīlī (fol. 215a); some of the notes in the margin of the text are signed Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ.
Collation: Paper ; catchwords ; collation notes (see fol. 133a) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 28 long lines per page.
Description: Written in black ink with red headings. Glazed paper with horizontal laid lines visible; no chain line visible; frame-ruled (100 mm.).
Origin: Copied by Bint Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Ḥasanī al-Ḥusaynī al-Mūsawī on 29 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1111 (colophon, fol. 215a).
Incipit: وهو ينقسم الى جزئين المقالة الاولى من الجزو الاول وهي خمسة وعشرون بابا ... الباب الاول في صدر الكتاب قال علي بن عباس لما كان العلم
Explicit: كذلك ينبغي ان يتفقد احوالها في كل نوع نوع فاعلم ذلك فهذا ما اردنا ان نثبته من العلامات المنذرة وهو اخر المقالة العاشرة
Opening: كتاب كامل الصناعة الطبية المعروفة بالملكي صنّفه علي بن العباس المطبب المجوسي تلميذ ابي ماهر موسى بن سيار للملك الجليل عضد الدولة وتاج الملّة رحمة الله تعالى عليهم
Binding Note
The lower cover is made of brown leather over paper pasteboard, with a blind-stamped central mandorla panel; blind-tooled diagonal lines connect this central panel to the frame, formed of two blind-tooled lines filled with s-shape stamps; the upper cover is missing.

Discovery Information

Subject
Medicine, Arab
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
438

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f83b485a-54ad-455e-ad82-4ff89fa92fb3/manifest