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كتاب خلاصة التعبير / من تصانيف الشيخ الرئيس ... ابي علي بن عبد الله بن سينا
Kitāb khulāṣat al-taʻbīr / min taṣānīf al-Shaykh al-raʾīs ... Abī ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā.
1486
Defective copy of a treatise on the interpretation of dreams attributed to Avicenna.
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Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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Metadata
- Publisher
- [1486 or 1487]
- People
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- Author
- Avicenna, 980-1037
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Defective copy of a treatise on the interpretation of dreams attributed to Avicenna.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب خلاصة التعبير / من تصانيف الشيخ الرئيس ... ابي علي بن عبد الله بن سينا
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb khulāṣat al-taʻbīr / min taṣānīf al-Shaykh al-raʾīs ... Abī ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 180B
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/bc386j289
- Publisher
- [1486 or 1487]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1486
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 96 leaves : paper ; 127 x 90 (78 x 50) mm. bound to 132 x 98 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey Bārūdī (Beirut).
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 930
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 2a).
- 15 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red for headings. Dark cream paper with laid lines visible. Short text in Persian on fol. 92b. Fāʾidah in Arabic on fol. 94b. Inscriptions in Persian and Arabic on fol. 1a-b and 91b. Inscription on fol. 96b. Ownership statements and seals on fol. 2a and 91a. Three first leaves defective. Leaves missing between fol. 9 and 10, between fol. 67 and 68, and between fol. 76 and 77.
- Copied in 892 by Isḥāq ibn Muslim al-Ṭālibī (colophon, fol. 91a).
- Incipit: بسم ... وبه الثقة وعليه التوكل قال ... ابو علي بن عبد الله بن سينا ... الغريزات الاودية التي استمدت الأمواه من العيون
- Explicit: بيكون عونا لمن يريد استخراج الرويا الغريبة الحقيقة بتوسطها واد قد وفينا بما وعدنا
- Binding Note
- Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of red leather over paper pasteboard. The covers are similarly tooled with a central gold-painted mandorla linked to the outer frame by a vertical blind-tooled fillet. The envelope flap has a blind tooled outer frame similar to that on the covers.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 222
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/be28ec8c-2d6d-411e-9161-41d0f4e80405/manifest