Kitāb al-Munqidh min al-halakah fī dafʻ maḍārr al-sumūm al-muhlikah
Contributors: Ṣidqī, Muṣṭafá, former owner; Wasīm, ʻAbbās, former owner; Fikrī, Muḥammad, former owner
Published: 1431
Language: ara
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Early works to 1800; Antidotes; Toxicology; Poisons
Work titles: Munqidh min al-halakah fī dafʻ maḍārr al-sumūm al-muhlikah
Description: Manuscript is a medical work on poisons and their antidotes, and discusses poisons from plants, animals, and minerals.  It consists of 3 essays:  the first begins with a table of contexts (fol. 3b-6b), and each of the others begins with a full-page gilded plate.
Notes: Ms.

According to the colophon (fol. 130b), the text was compared with the author's copy, dated 7 Shaʻbān 774 H [1 February 1373].

Fol. 1b gives author's first name as al-Ḥasan, but all other sources (fol. 1a, 60a, and 89a) read al-Ḥusayn.

[Egypt or Syria]

The colophon (fol. 130a) states that the work was written in the country of Barsbāy, the Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria from 1422-1438.

Paper:  yellowed cream, thick, no visible watermarks, affected by termites.  First page repaired.  Bottom of first leaves affected by humidity.  Title page covered with gilded plate and blue ornaments; text is mainly in black with some rubricated words; diacritical marks. Fol. 71a-97b appear to have been written by a second hand. Occasional marginal notes.  Catchwords on rectos.

Library of Congress. Arabic manuscripts, SM-47.

Naskhī script; 23 lines in written area, 19 x 13 cm.

Three full-page illuminated plates (fol. 1a, 60a, 89a)

Fol. 1a-130b.

Signatures of previous owners and several ownership stamps on title page:  Muṣṭafá Ṣidqī (in 1179 H [1765]); ʻAbbās Wasīm; Masʻūd Sarāṭāī[?] (in 1227 H [1812]).  One ownership stamp is illegible; one ownership inscription has been partially erased.  Another stamp with a Qur'anic verse appears to be either Mamluk or early Ottoman.  Another faint stamp on fol. 1b.  On title page and fol. 130b, Muḥammad Fikrī written in violet pencil.

Binding:  Gilded framed leather; flap has been lost.

Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fī maktabat al-Kūngris, 37.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Arabic.