MS Arabic 12 (Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust)
Manuscripts in Arabic
Contents
Book 1 of Tadhkirat ulī al-albāb wa-al-jāmiʻ lil-ʻajab al-ʻujāb by Anṭākī, Dāʼūd ibn ʻUmar
Memorandum for the learned, being a collection of marvels. This copy contains Book 1 only.
Incipit: سبحانك يا مبدع مواد الكائنات بلا مثال سبق، ومخترع صور الموجودات في أكمل نظام ونسق...
Explicit: ... ينمويه: من الهندباء أو نبات مغربي أصفر الزهر يلصق الجراح. تم الجزء الأول بما اشتمل عليه من القوانين الكلية وتفضيل أحوال المفردات...
Language(s): Arabic
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Burnished; Watermark: "M"
Extent: 281 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 311 × 212 mm.
Dimensions (written): 239 × 142 mm.
Foliation: in Arabic
Collation
01+275+005
Condition
Sound
Layout
2b-276a 12mm
276b 10
277 9
Decoration
Rubrication throughout
Fol. 2b - double red line; Fol. 10a - double red line; Fol. 11a - double red line; Fols. 63a-92b - double red line.
Blind tooling on covers and flap
Binding
320 × 232 mm. Paper; leather covers. Primary endbands: Natural colour; Secondary endbands: Yellow, red; Islamic endbands, worked on the book.
History
Origin: 1265 A.H.; 1848 CE
Subjects
- Medicine, Arab
- Therapeutics
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic