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كتاب خلاصة التعبير / من تصانيف الشيخ الرئيس ... ابي علي بن عبد الله بن سينا
Kitāb khulāṣat al-taʻbīr / min taṣānīf al-Shaykh al-raʾīs ... Abī ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā.
Author
Avicenna, 980-1037
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[1486 or 1487]
Description
96 leaves : paper ; 127 x 90 (78 x 50) mm. bound to 132 x 98 mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 180B
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Subject(s)
Dream interpretation
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Religious aspects
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Islam
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Early works to 1800
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Islamic philosophy
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Early works to 1800
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Islamic occultism
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Summary note
Defective copy of a treatise on the interpretation of dreams attributed to Avicenna.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
15 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red for headings. Dark cream paper with laid lines visible. Short text in Persian on fol. 92b. Fāʾidah in Arabic on fol. 94b. Inscriptions in Persian and Arabic on fol. 1a-b and 91b. Inscription on fol. 96b. Ownership statements and seals on fol. 2a and 91a. Three first leaves defective. Leaves missing between fol. 9 and 10, between fol. 67 and 68, and between fol. 76 and 77.
Copied in 892 by Isḥāq ibn Muslim al-Ṭālibī (colophon, fol. 91a).
Incipit: بسم ... وبه الثقة وعليه التوكل قال ... ابو علي بن عبد الله بن سينا ... الغريزات الاودية التي استمدت الأمواه من العيون
Explicit: بيكون عونا لمن يريد استخراج الرويا الغريبة الحقيقة بتوسطها واد قد وفينا بما وعدنا
Binding note
Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of red leather over paper pasteboard. The covers are similarly tooled with a central gold-painted mandorla linked to the outer frame by a vertical blind-tooled fillet. The envelope flap has a blind tooled outer frame similar to that on the covers.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey Bārūdī (Beirut).
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 930
Other title(s)
Khulāṣat al-taʻbīr
OCLC
68933932
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