Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn.

تذكرة الكحالين

Description

Main Author

Kaḥḥāl, ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá, -1038 or 1039.

Related Names

Wood, Casey A. (Casey Albert), 1856-1942, former owner.

Language(s)

Arabic

Published

1260 [1844]

Subjects

Ophthalmology.
Medicine, Arab.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Eye
Manuscrits arabes > Manuscrits arabes / Québec (Province) > Manuscrits arabes / Québec (Province) / Montréal.
Œil > Œil / Ouvrages avant 1800.
Médecine arabe > Médecine arabe / 11e siècle.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Québec (Province) > Manuscripts, Arabic / Québec (Province) / Montréal.
Eye > Eye / Early works to 1800.
Ophthalmology > Ophthalmology / Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Arab > Medicine, Arab / 11th century.
Québec > Québec / Montréal.
Early works.

Note

Part of the Casey A. Wood Collection: P145.
Includes Engish translation of title, colophon and marginal notes by Professor Naguib Chaker, as well as a covering note by Casey Wood (dated February 11, 1935): "This copy of ... Taḍkirat al Kaḥḥalin ... was purchased in Damascus for me by Prof. Rustum of the American University of Beirut about Septr. 1934."
Maqalah 1, chapters 4 and 5 were omitted by the copyist.
Copied in 1260/1844 for Muḥyī al-Dīn Daqqāq. Quires are signed (kurrās plus numeral) on verso of each opening folio.
Dimensions of text block: 135 x 90 mm
14 lines per page. Written in a Syrian or Egyptian hand, mostly in black ink on laid European paper with a watermark: three crescents. Half-bound.
Manuscript.

Physical Description

150 folios : diagrams ; 215 x 155 mm

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