Item Summary

A comprehensive work on materia medica dedicated to the Safavid Shāh Sulaymān, r. 1666-1694, written to correct the errors of the Ikhtiyārāt-i Badīʻī and based largely on the Jāmiʻ-i Baghdādī.

Descriptive Information

Title
تحفة المؤمنين.
Transliterated Title
Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 432L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dchq37w217s
Publisher
1247 [1831 or 1832]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1831
Format
Manuscript
Extent
231 leaves : paper ; 212 x 153 (160 x 96) mm bound to 211 x 158 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 432
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 231a).
Marginal notes. Inscriptions (fol. 1a and 231b). Label on upper cover: 'M.T. No. 8".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 231 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; paper tinted blue ; watermarks (pro patria; large circular design) ; MS in very good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1247 by Ḥusayn ʻAlī ibn Nawrūz (fol. 231a).
Colophon: تمام شد ستورات تحفه المئومنين بخط احقر الفقير اقل العباد اله ابن نوروز حسين علي كرد جلد سم است
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) limp binding in brown leather. Decorative blind-tooled edging. Spine repaired with red leather. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Medicine, Arab
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
Headbands
Blind tooled bindings
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
470

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b310ca43-8379-4059-aa80-514cc73e8942/manifest