Ṭibb al-jadīd al-kimiyāʼī ... etc..

Title:

Ṭibb al-jadīd al-kimiyāʼī ... etc..

Creator:

Ḥalabī, Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm.

Date:

1640-1696

Description:

Abstract: A treatise on Paracelsian medicine, preceded and followed by several folios with notes and excerpts on medicine and alchemy. The copy also contains two sheets of paper with notes.Binding note: Quarter bound in brown leather and marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns. Wear.Contents: 1. Pastedown of upper cover: Uns al-nafas short text in Ottoman Turkish on water parsley.Contents: 2. fol. 2a: Inscriptions and notes in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.Contents: 3. fol. 2b-3a: Table of contents of main text.Contents: 4. fol. 3b-7b: Notes in Ottoman Turkish on remedies (maʻjūn) and potions and drinks, such as lemon and apple syrup, etc..Contents: 5. fol. 8a-b: Fī bayān al-awzān wa-al-makāʼīl al-mashhūrah al-mustaʻmalah fī kutub al-ṭibb wa-ghayrihā.Contents: 6. fol. 8b-11a: Short excerpts in Ottoman Turkish on questions pertaining to medicine and remedies, some attributed to Ṣāliḥ Efendi in his Ghāyat al-bayān (= Ghāyat al-itqān by Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm?).Contents: 7. fol. 11b: Poem in Arabic on alchemy, 25 lines.Contents: 8. fol. 12a-13b: Risālah al-Zaynīyatah fī ḥall bayt al-Qaṣīdah al-Nūnīyah.Contents: 9. fol. 13b-20a: Several excerpts and notes in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish on questions pertaining to medicine and remedies, including a long excerpt from Shams al-maʻārif.Contents: 10. fol. 20b-102a: al-Ṭibb al-jadīd al-kimiyāʼī / Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn Sallūm.Contents: 11. fol. 102b-112b: Short excerpts and notes in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic on plants and questions pertaining to medicine and alchemy, some attributed to Jābir in his Kitāb al-Sabʻīn (fol. 106a) and to Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qunawī (fol. 110b).Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, from title of main text.Physical description: The main text (fol. 21a-102a) is written in a neat medium small naskh in black ink with use of red, with 19 lines per page (written surface: 125 x 65 mm.). European paper with watermark. Marginal annotations. Fol. 1 and 113 are later added fly-leaves. On fol. 2b-3a is a table of contents for the main text. Foliation in red pencil using Arabic numerals on fol. 21a-102a (main text). This foliation is used in the table of contents fol. 2b-3a.Inscription "584" in Arabic numerals on the upper cover and on fol. 1a.Origin: According to a note on the margin of the end of the main text, this was copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-shahīr bi-ZīrakʹZādah (fol. 102a).

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Provenance:

Several ownership statements, some with seal, on fol. 2a, one dated 1107 H. 1695 or 6. Two ownership statements in the name of Muḥammad Saʻīd and of ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq, and one seal reading "Muḥammad" on fol. 20a.

Publisher:

between 164-? and 1696

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 856
Electronic Resource
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Replaces: pudl0032/ns856

Is part of:

Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts

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