Item Summary

A medical work on poisons and their antidotes.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب المنقذ من الهلكة في دفع السمائية المهلكة / لابن ثعلب.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Munqidh min al-halakah fī dafʻ al-samāʼīyah al-muhlikah / li-Ibn Thaʻlab.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 566H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrv0434720
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Extent
54 leaves : paper ; 242 x 167 (190 x 122) mm. bound to 242 x 171 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn Badr al-Dīn al-? (fol. 54b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1098.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 199.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
The author composed the MS for al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Abī al-Barakāt, fl. ca. 484 [1091], the minister of Sayyidah ḥurrah, 532 [1137], who played the dominant role in Ṣanʻāʼ after the death of the Ṣulayḥid al-Mukarram Aḥmad 473-484 [1080-1091].
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 54 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition, some staining. MS is probably from the sixteenth century; extremely rare.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر الحمد لله الواحد بلا كيفية يقع بها الاحاطة عليه ... قال الحسين ابن ابى ثعلب ابن المبارك الطبيب اما بعد فان النعمة تزرع المحبة ومن احبا النعم استدام بقاوه ...
Colophon: والله الموفق وبه المستعان ولا حول ولاقوة الا به وهو حسبنا ونعم الوکيل. نعم المولى ونعم النصير
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Gold- and blind-tooled geometric design covering entirety of covers. Gold-sprinkled blue paper pastedowns and gold-speckled flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
123

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cab278eb-fb24-403a-ba00-28b451445ebe/manifest