Item Summary

Treatise on medicine in two parts.

Descriptive Information

Title
کتاب کفايه منصورى.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb-i Kifāyah-i Manṣūrī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 436L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbg257t669
Publisher
Ramaḍān 1142-Muḥarram 1225 [1730-1810]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1730-1810
Format
Manuscript
Extent
240 leaves : paper ; 212 x 132 (130 x 80) mm bound to 212 x 138 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 436.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption at head of text (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "49 MX". Inscriptions at front and back (fol. (i)a and [iii]b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 240 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (roman-alphabet lettering "Lenzi" and "Scappucci" and "Geo Batta" with coat-of-arms) ; MS in very good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy part 1 completed Muḥarram 1225 (fol. 237b), part 2 completed Ramaḍān 1142 by Muḥammad ʻAlī Shīrāzī (fol. 240b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم شكر وسپاس مر خالقيرا كه در خلقت انساني دقايق حكمت او بي ...
Colophon: تمت الكتاب الحمد لله على اتمامه قد فرغ من تسويده الاوراق فى شهر محرم من شهور سنه 1225 -- والحمد لله على اتمامه على يد اقل الكتاب محمد على شيرازى فى شهر رمضان سنه 1142
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) limp binding in light brown leather. Decorative blind-tooled edging. Yellow paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Medicine, Persian
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
498

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/21d3d45a-9d4e-4582-9e46-dcee1244a870/manifest