Item Summary

Treatise on drugs, based on the Jāmiʻ mufradāt al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah by Ibn al-Bayṭār (d. 646/1248). The text is followed on fol. 240a-b by a note written by the same hand as the main text, relating a saying by the author to the effect that he completed this work on Monday 25 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 711. Another note on fol. 240b in the hand of Madyan ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, physician at the Dār al-Shifā in Cairo (Miṣr), reports an autograph ijāzah from the author for Muẓaffar al-Dīn Fatḥ Allāh dated beginning of Muḥarram 748, found in another copy of the text. This is surrounded by annotations with details on the name of the author.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب ما لا يسع الطبيب جهله / للعلامة الحكيم جمال الدين يوسف بن اسمعيل بن الياس المعروف بابن الكتبي الشافعي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Mā lā yasaʻu al-ṭabīb jahluh / lil-ʻallāmah al-ḥakīm Jamāl al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ismaʻīl ibn Ilyās al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Kutubī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 567H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcx633fb688
Publisher
[between 14--? and 15--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 240, i leaves: paper ; 260 x 180 (195 x 125) mm. bound to 260 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, including one in the name of Madyan al-ṭabīb dated 993 H., with impression of his seal and mention of the prize; of Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-ṭabīb al-awwal bi-māristān sulṭān Aḥmad Khān, dated '137; of Muṣṭafá ibn Masʻūd, dated '213. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1106
Ullman, M. Die Medizin, 285
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 169 ; SII
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a). The end of the line, apparently bearing the date of composition of the text, is obliterated. The same title appears in the colophon (fol. 240a) and on the tail of the textblock.
Some marginal annotations, mainly collation notes. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including ownership statements and a collational note. Verses of poetry in Persian by a later hand on fol. 240b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 240 + i ; catchwords ; quinions ; collation notes.
Layout: 29 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium small square script in black ink ; rubricated ; light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible.
Decoration: Frame-ruled in gold, black and blue and large dots in gold for text-stops on fol. 1b-2a. The basmalah is written in gold in a cartouche defined by lines in gold outlined in black and a running pattern of crosses and dots on fol. 1b.
Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذى لا تكتنه حقييقة معرفته العلوم والافهام ولا تحيط بكنه ذاته العقول والاوهام ابتدع الاجرام العلوية ... وبعد فانه لما كان الانسان بل الحيوان جملة من المركبات العنصرية
Explicit: و هى مجربة فى الصاق الحراحات طرية ويابسة درا فافهمه والله اعلم تم كتاب ما لا يسع الطبيب جهله بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله اولا واخرا وباطنا وظاهرا وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-stamped and -tooled decorative frame and edging. Brown marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers. Endbands. Woven bookmark.

Discovery Information

Subject
Medicine, Arab
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Gold tooled bindings
Stamps
Autographs
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
492

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4f5ecf30-3357-4ee6-9f81-d1a6e442a24d/manifest