Item Summary

A treatise on spiritual powers for healing diseases. Followed by another text on the subject of letters and their astrological use. This is followed by another short text on letters and divination. The two texts are illustrated with tables and charts.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب الطب الروحاني في العالم الانساني ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb al-ṭibb al-rūḥānī fī al-ʻālam al-insānī ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1030H
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc3t9463397
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1773
Extent
25 leaves : paper ; 212 x 152 (160 x 95) mm. bound to 212 x 158 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 934; 1028
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 800 (160).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-10b: Hādhā Kitāb al-ṭibb al-rūḥānī fī al-ʻālam al-insānī / taʼlīf Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ʻArabī.
2. fol. 11b-22a: al-ʻIqd al-manẓūm mā taḥtawī ʻalayhi al-ḥurūf min al-khawāṣṣ wa-al-ʻulūm.
3. fol. 22b-24b: Kitāb al-Ṣād wa-huwa miftāḥ al-jafr al-akbar / Ḥusayn al-Ikhlāṭī.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Collation: Paper; fol. 25; catchwords.
Layout: 19-23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated; watermarks (three crescents); MS in fair condition, texts 2 and 3 appear to be of an earlier date, and are in much worse condition than the first text: there is substantial water damage, mildew, ink smudging and loss of text.
Decoration: MS is illustrated with astrological diagrams.
Origin: [Ṭibb al-rūḥānī] Copied 27 Muḥarram 1187 by Ḥusayn Muḥammad (fol. 10b).
Incipit: [طب الروحاني] الحمد لله الذي عزت عزته اولا واخيراً ... وبعد فهذا الكتاب جليل يسمى بالطب الرحانى فى العالم الانسانى -- [العقد المنظوم] بسم الله ... اما بعد فاني اذکر في هذا العقد المنظوم.
Explicit: [طب الروحاني] ماذا تريد فقلت ان لا ترجعى ان لاترجعى ان لا ترجع -- [العقد المنظوم] وقد ضمنت ذلك جدولا واضحا تراه فيما بعد هذه الصفحة وبالله المستعان. تم.
Binding Note
Stiff paper binding with yellow marbled paper on covers and brown leather on spine. Pastedowns in green marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
58

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/28b67d81-cf1f-4db2-bbd9-c0a67d50bd8f/manifest