Item Summary

Autograph copy of a medical treatise on the various kinds of fever and the remedies for them.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب النكة الوفيات في احكام الحميات / تأليف شرف الدين موسى بن ابراهيم الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Nukat al-wafīyāt fī aḥkām al-ḥummayāt / taʼlīf Sharaf al-Dīn Mūsá ibn Ibrāhīm al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 574H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcjw827p300
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1000-1474
Extent
(1), 52 leaves : paper ; 183 x 137 (145 x 102) mm. bound to 182 x145 mm.
Provenance
Signatures: [..] ibn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn [...] dated 877 (upper pastedown); Muḥammad al-Bāʻūnī (lower pastedown). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1115.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. Pastedowns and flyleaves have short inscriptions and signatures.
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 52 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 16 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition, light staining.
Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمدلله العلىم الذي لا ىغرب عن علمه
Colophon: وامراض الکبد وامراض الطحال والحمىات المزمنة والله سبحانه اعلم. جمع کاتبه موسى ابراهىم الشافعي المتطبب
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and paper. Binding mended and in poor condition.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
117

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/460f762b-2c33-416b-b96d-637bdabbaba4/manifest