Item Summary

An urjūzah on medicine.

Descriptive Information

Title
كفاية المتطبب ونهاية المتأدب / نظم محمد بن دانيال.
Transliterated Title
Kifāyat al-mutaṭabbib wa-nihāyat al-mutaʼaddib / naẓama Muḥammad ibn Dāniyāl.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 573H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcsf268g75q
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1000-1601
Extent
(1), 58, (1) leaves : paper ; 210 x 155 (145 x 95) mm. bound to 219 x 165 mm.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1105.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Statement that the MS has 6 quires and 60 leaves (fol. (1)a). Title page and the two folios following the end of the text contain longer notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 58 + (1) ; catchwords ; quires signed: 1-6 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page in two columns.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (hand with a star and the roman-alphabet letters "[?]RA") ; MS in fair condition; badly stained with dampness with many loose and some mended folios.
Ownership signatures: ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad Jabrāyil [obscured]; partially obscured signature dated 1009; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Mālikī [..]; seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. يقول راجي کرم الله العلي * محمد بن دانيال الموصلي
Colophon: ولنختم القول بحمد الله * حمدا اذا عد بلا تناهي * مصلىن دائم الاىام * على النبي المصطفى التهامي * وآله وصحبه وعترته * وکل من اخلص في محبته
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Tan paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
131

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/72aeb5de-f36a-4f93-bf22-d49353bc2b69/manifest