Item Summary

A medical dictionary arranged alphabetically.

Descriptive Information

Title
کتاب طب اعرابي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Ṭibb Aʻrābī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 577H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcpn89dj25n
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
72 leaves : paper ; 182 x 137 (150 x 100) mm. bound to 186 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1118.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from label on upper cover.
Marginal notes. Folios 1, 2, 65-68 and 71 are by a later hand. MS incomplete at beginning and end. Seal impressions on fol. 69a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 72 + ii ; catchwords ; quires signed: 6 (fol. 5a)-11 (fol. 55a) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15-21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in black ; watermarks (replacement folios only: shield with star topped by a crown) ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten and damaged by rodents with loose and mended folios.
Incipit: حرف الالف الوسن يوفا في ... رجل الغراب
Ending: يربوع حيوان طويل الذنب قصير اليدين يشبه الفار حار في ... ينفع من الامراض الباردة بالمفاصل والفالج ووجع الظهر ويفتت الحصى ويدر کيف اسهل
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather with light brown leather on the spine. Gold-tooled decorative edging. Binding badly damaged with most of the spine missing.

Discovery Information

Subject
Medicine, Arab—Dictionaries
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Dictionaries
Stamps
Gold tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
156

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/db243021-f42f-4045-bf89-396d3c92643e/manifest