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كتاب الطيب. كتاب يوحنا ابن ماسويه في جواهر الطيب المفردة باسمائها وصفاتها ومعادنها.
[Kitāb al-Ṭīb]. Kitāb Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh fī jawāhir al-ṭīb al-mufradah bi-asmāʼihā wa-ṣifātihā wa-maʻādinihā.
1194
Collection of two treatises on aromatic substances. Incomplete at end and beginning.
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Item Summary
Collection of two treatises on aromatic substances. Incomplete at end and beginning.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الطيب. كتاب يوحنا ابن ماسويه في جواهر الطيب المفردة باسمائها وصفاتها ومعادنها.
- Transliterated Title
- [Kitāb al-Ṭīb]. Kitāb Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh fī jawāhir al-ṭīb al-mufradah bi-asmāʼihā wa-ṣifātihā wa-maʻādinihā.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 174B
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/g445cd200
- Publisher
- [1194]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1194
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 26 leaves : paper ; 170 x 125 (125 x 85) mm bound to 175 x 130 mm
- Provenance
- Acquired from Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 2154.
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SN I, 902; I, 232 (3/4) ; SI.
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 2154
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Contents
- 1. fol. 1a-12b: [Kitāb al-Ṭīb / li-Abī al-Ḥasan al-Khāzin.]
- 2. fol. 13a-26b: Kitāb Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh fī jawāhir al-ṭīb al-mufradah bi-asmāʼihā wa-ṣifātihā wa-maʻādinihā / Ibn Māsawayh.
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 26 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 13 lines per page.
- Description: Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown) ; MS in poor condition. Text badly faded, stained with dampness and mildewed.
- Paper: Thick soft dark cream paper with chain lines and pulp visible. The edges of the paper are not trimmed.
- Origin: [Kitāb al-Ṭīb] According to colophon copied on Monday 10 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 590 [April 4, 1194] from an autograph copy dated Ghaznah, Thursday 21(?) Jumādá al-Ūlá 421 [May 27, 1030] (fol. 12a-b). (fol. 12a-b).
- Incipit: [كتاب الطيب] وليس [---] اصل كل مسك هو دم مجتمع في [---] الغزال والذي يقال انّ رعي هذا الغزال -- [كتاب يوحنا ابن ماسويه] لاصول الخمسة المسك والعنبر والعود والكافور والزعفران الافاوية السنبل القرنفل الصندل الجوزبوا
- Explicit: [كتاب الطيب] ويترك ليحول عليه الحول فحينيذ يصلح للغالية ومنه ما يحلب على جهته غير مربي ولا يصلح للادوية والتدهين به تم الكتاب -- [كتاب يوحنا ابن ماسويه] \\ يوخذ عشرة مثاقيل مسك مسحوق وخمسة مثاقيل عنبر ويُذَوَّب العنبر على الوصف المتقدم ويُطرح عليه المسك
- Binding Note
- Later type III (without flap) binding in blue cardboard.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 56
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ce18fe55-b7d3-46aa-89bd-3a2ab55195f3/manifest