Item Summary

A mixed medical lexicon in Arabic and Persian, together with the lives of the most illustrious physicians.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب بحر الجواهر فى علم الطب
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Baḥr al-jawāhir fī ʻilm al-ṭibb
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 178Lq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcn296xb22r
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
176 leaves : paper ; 346 x 215 (250 x 135) mm bound to 350 x 219 mm.
Provenance
Stamp (fol. 33b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1123.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Medical notes and glosses (fol. 1-33, 175a-b). Contains a few diagrams. Inserts.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 176 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 26 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم جمدا لعلام اجدي على ذوي الافهام ... وبعدفيقول العبد الفقير المحتاج الى الله القوى محمد بن يوسف الطبيب الرومي لما كان علم الطب اشد مما يحتاج ...
Colophon: تمام شد بفضل الهى كتاب بحر الجواهر تمام شد
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in light brown leather and dark paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Medicine, Arab—Dictionaries
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
dictionaries
Dictionaries
diagrams
Headbands
scientific illustrations (images)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
368

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b1eca00f-b92d-44cc-98e4-56c1a9a6e4fc/manifest