Item Summary

Compendium of medicine, being an abridgment of Ibn Sīnā's Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. The text proper ends on fol. 178b, and is followed on fol. 179b-180a by an ijāzah for the copyist from Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Qarāḥisārī(?), dated end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 796 [March 1394], and on fol. 180b-187b, by several short texts and inscriptions by various hands, some in Ottoman Turkish, including recipes of medication. Short texts and inscriptions on fol. 1a-3a.

Descriptive Information

Title
موجز في الطب
Transliterated Title
Mūjiz fī al-ṭibb.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 558H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/k930bx08v
Publisher
[1393]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1393
Format
Manuscript
Extent
187 leaves: paper ; 170 x 85 (112 x 50) mm. bound to 170 x 90 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1085
Ullmann, M. Die Medizin im Islam (1970), p. 173
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from inscription on the upper margin of fol. 3b. The title appears on a label pasted on the fore-edge flap of the slipcase as "Matn Mūjiz min al-ṭibb".
Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام الحبر قدوة العلاما ورئيس الحكماء فريد دهره ووحيد عصره ابو الحسين علاء الدين علي ابن ابى الحسن القرشى المتطبّب قدس الله روحه وبعد فقد رتّبت هذا الكتاب علي اربعة فنون الفن الاول فى قواعد جزءى الطب اعنى علمية وعملية بقول كلى
Explicit: وكان تدبيرهم واحدا و استعملوا دواء جالينوس وغيره من العلاج المذكور تم الكتاب
Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for the basmalah, headings and overlining. Soft dark cream paper with laid and chain lines and pulp visible. Fol. 1-2 and 186-187 are later additions, with inscriptions. Marginal annotations. Topics written vertically in red on the margins.
Collation: Paper, fol. 187 ; 1⁸ (-2 at the beginning of the quire ; + 2 later added leaves, European paper, fol. 1-2) 2-22⁸ 23⁸ (+1 ; +2 later added leaves, European paper).
Origin: Copy completed at the end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 795 [March 1393] by Masʻūd ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī (colophon, fol. 178b).
Binding Note
Painted paper with arabesques of a floral pattern in black and orange on dark turquoise ground pasted on paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Red leather spine and fore-edge flap. Paper pastedowns. Slipcase in red leather and the same decorated paper, with title on a label pasted on the fore-edge flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Physicians—Certification—Islamic Empire—History—14th century—Sources
Muslim scholars—Certification—History—14th century—Sources
Medicine, Arab—13th century
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Avicenna 980-1037—Qānūn fī al-ṭibb
Slipcases—Islamic Empire

Physical Characteristics

File Count
378

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/417c0e04-15a0-4b10-8f89-492ca9d8b9d5/manifest