Item Summary

Treatise on medicine (complete copy).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب كامل الصناعة الطبية المعروف بالملكي / تأليف علي بن العباس تلميذ ابي ماهر موسى ابن سيار
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah al-maʻrūf bi-al-Malakī / taʼlīf ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās tilmīdh Abī Māhir Mūsá Ibn Sayār.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1S
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1v53jx03x
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1190
Extent
356 leaves : paper ; 295 x 215 (225 x 160) mm. bound to 350 x 250 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statements and seals on fol. 1a (4 inscriptions and 4 seals) and 353b (2 inscriptions and 1 seal). Some of the inscriptions link this copy to Iran.
Source Acquisition
Purchase; Maggs; 1938.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., suppl. 1
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, p. 237/17-1
Sezgin, F. GAS, III, p. 321-322
Ullmann, M. Medizin, p. 140-146
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a : Title page.
2. fol. 1b-149a : juzʼ 1 (10 maqālah).
3. fol. 149a-353b : juzʼ 2 (10 maqālah).
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from rubric (fol. 1b).
Opening rubric: كتاب كامل الصناعة الطبية المعروف بالملكي تاليف علي بن العباس تلميد ابي ماهر موسي ابن سيار للملك عضد الدولة(؟) رحمة الله عليه
Incipit: المقالة الاولى و هي كه [25] بابا الباب الاول في صدر الكتاب الباب الثاني ... الباب الاول في صدر الكتاب قال علي ابن عباس ان احق ما ابتدي به في جميع الامور
Explicit: مثقال مع شيء من شراب العسل نافع ان شاء الله تعالى
31 long lines per page. Very dense copy written in small naskh using black ink, with headings in red (maqāmah headings in larger script using black ink); collation notes in violet ink and black ink in juzʼ 1 (fol. 149a, on the margin, using the same violet ink: "بلغت المقابلة بحمد اللة ومنه في صفر سنة 588"); in black ink in juzʼ 2 (violet ink on fol. 231a). Glazed paper with visible laid lines and single vertical chain lines (irregular, 180 to 250 mm., often curved); frame-ruled (12 mm.). Catchword only on fol. 87b. The pages have been trimmed so that parts of the marginalia are cut off. Some pages are repaired (loss of text and marginalia on fol. 353 a-b). Two foliations: one in black ink using Arabic numerals and one in pencil using Western numerals. Excellent condition except for a few holes. Fol. 234 and 235 are glued together ; fol. 83 is a modern addition replacing a missing leaf.
Each maqālah begins with a table of contents using abjad.
Copied from a faulty copy ("min nuskhah saqīmah") by Barakāt ibn Thābit(?) ibn Ḥamd(?) ibn Barakāt ibn Bakār(?) in Ḥarrān during the first ten days of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 586 (colophon).

Physical Characteristics

File Count
724

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/442b1935-64d1-466e-b5ce-588a0ce8fd90/manifest