Item Summary

Treatise on eye diseases.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتب تذكرة الكحالين / للمرحوم علي بن عيسى.
Transliterated Title
Kitạb Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn / lil-marḥūm ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 2020
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcjq085x39p
Publisher
1089 [1678]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1678
Format
Manuscript
Extent
80 leaves : paper ; 211 x 147 (151 x 82) mm bound to 210 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement by the scribe, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qaddūs, dated beginning of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1089 (fol. 1a).
References
Brockelmann, GAL, I, 635 (la); SI, 884.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Occasional marginal note. Diagrams. Fāʼidah on upper pastedown. Fāʼidah "fī maʻná al-adwiyah" (fol. 80a-b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 80 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وهو حسبي هذه رسالة على بن عيسى جوابا عما ساله بعض اخوانه من ال..فة امراض العين وعلاجا ...
Colophon: تمت المقالة الثالثه من كتاب تذكرة الكحالين وبتمامها تم الكتاب كله باسره والله الحمد دعا ابد ابدا كاتبه العبد الفقير محمد القدوس سنه 1089
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and marbled paper. White upper and orange lower paper pastedown. Binding in poor condition.

Discovery Information

Subject
Eye—Diseases—Early works to 1800
Ophthalmology—Early works to 1800
Medicine, Arab
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
diagrams
Watermarks
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
165

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/36b2c87f-f96e-4ed6-93fa-94870ba3482a/manifest