Item Summary

A compendium of medicine, being an abridgment of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا الكتاب الموجز في علم الطب / تأليف ابي العلا بن الحسن علي بن ابي الحسن القرشي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā al-Kitāb al-Mūjaz fī ʻilm al-ṭibb / taʼlīf Abī al-ʻAlā ibn al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Qurashī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 557H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcnc580z298
Language
Arabic
Extent
107 leaves : paper ; 241 x 162 (160 x 88) mm. bound to 242 x 162 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1084.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 497, VI, pp. 251/2.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, pp. 33, 45.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6275.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 3a).
Marginal summaries in red. Table of contents on the title page and two preceeding folios.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 107 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Foliation is on the verso of each leaf, rather than the recto.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (eagle, roman-alphabet lettes "GFA"; crown; coat-of-arms?) ; MS in very good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الشيخ على ابن ابي الحزم القرشى تغمده الله برحمته قد رتبت هذا الکتاب على اربعة فنون ...
Colophon: تم الکتاب الموجز في علم الطب تأليف ابي العلاء ابن الحسن علي ابن ابي الحسن القرشي المتطب [المتطبب] رحمه الله تعالى ونفع بتأليفه المسلمين امين
Binding Note
Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red leather and green paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
233

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0c5824c9-0903-46a3-918d-c3ec2165028d/manifest