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93 leaves, bound, (9 lines; leaves 1, 94 blank) : 21 cm Manuscript Arabic Title appears on the illuminated title page (fol. 2a); also known as al-Siyāsah fī ʻilm al-firāsah, or al-Firāsah li-ajl al-siyāsah, or Aḥkām al-firāsah Author's name given in text (fol. 2b lines 5-6) and on title page (fol. 2a) as Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Anṣārī al-Sūfī al-Dimashqī, a shaykh of Rabwa in Syria Copy undated; paper, handwriting, vowelling, illuminated title page, etc. suggest a dating ca. 1400 Various owners' notes, one dated 1212 [1797 or 1798] are on fol. 2a, nearly all defaced; others are on fol. 93b; fol. 94 is blank except for a small Turkish note mentioning the dates 984 [1576 or 1577] and 988 [1580-1]; fol. 1b has recently penciled notes on the author and title Purchased in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A. S. Yahuda (ELS 1668) Title page (fol. 2a) of a Mamluk design illuminated with gold, black ink, and blue and white opaque paint; a rectangular band carries the name of the treatise; the author's name is in the large shamsah Illustrations of the line of the hand and the palm are on fols. 86b-88b and 89b Script is a large fully vowelled Naskhi; throughout the text the word al-firāsah (physiognomy) is voweled as al-farāsah (horsemanship); no catchwords; rubrications; some marginalia in later hands, some of it interlinear Paper is thick and nearly opaque; some folios have neither laid nor chain lines visible; some folios have visible laid lines and alternating double and triple chain lines; top of vol. water stained Front and back covers of the binding are taken from different manuscripts; the front cover is of brown leather with blind and gold tooled medallions and borders with block-pressed leather doublure; back cover is of red leather with blind tooled center decorations and border and paper pastedowns on inside cover; recent brown leather binding; modern endpapers Decribed in: Schullian & Sommer. Cat. of incun. MSS., 1950, A58 An early and important copy of the most famous of Arabic treatises on physiognomy Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Army Medical Library, 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm Condition reviewed 20170410 digitized. 2018

Chủ đề: Physiognomy, Medicine, Arabic

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