Item Summary

A commentary on Masāʼil fī al-ṭibb lil-mutaʻallimīn, a famous work on medicine by Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq. This in turn is a redaction of his other work, al-Mudkhal fī al-ṭibb.

Descriptive Information

Title
[شرح على مسائل في الطب للمتعلمين].
Transliterated Title
[Sharḥ ʻalá Masāʼil fī al-ṭibb lil-mutaʻallimīn].
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 564Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3x817053v
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1879
Extent
177 leaves : paper ; 305 x 210 (230 x 140) mm bound to 310 x 216 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Georges ..aï..? (fol.1a); note on transfer of ownership from ʻĪsá al-Kutubī to ? Rafāyīl dated 1296 (fol. 3a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1097.
Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʻah, ʻUyūn al-anbāʼ (1884), II, p. 22.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 514/5.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2861/2.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1932.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
A few marginal notes and glosses. Short inscriptions (fol. 1a-3a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 177 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpapers: roman-alphabet lettering "...A B ? FIS ... ERGUE MOYEN" ; text: three crescents and countermark roman-alphabet initials with a cross) ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين رب تمم بعونك ولطفك وعين الحمد لله حمد معترف بالايه وصلواته على جميع ابنيايه قال الشيخ ابو القاسم عبد الرحمن ... ان ارباب المعرفة بصناعة الطب ...
Colophon: تمت الخاتمة بتمامها تم الکتاب باسره. م
Binding Note
Western binding in red leather. Gold-stamped four-lobed central design. Gold-stamped cornerpieces and blind-tooled decorative edging. Edges sprinkled with red.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
364

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/52c45663-6ce7-4233-9226-997aea69681f/manifest