خلاصة:
The treatise called “Kitāb al-Ṭīb” is a work composed by Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm al-Khāzin (living in 421/1030) , dealing with aromatic substances. There are four known copies of this work, the oldest one (Princeton, Garrett, 174B) dated 590/1194 is incomplete and disorderly in its present situation. Rearranging this manuscript and clarifying the relationship between all extant manuscripts of the work seem necessary for a critical edition of it. Based on the repetition of a note referring to the contents and order of treatises in three codices, similarities in the colophon of them, different readings of same words in each of these manuscripts, as well as the text conflations, the most probable explanation is that the Princeton manuscript has been the basis of copying the other three manuscripts
ملخص الجهاز:
Based on the repetition of a note referring to the contents and order of treatises in three codices, similarities in the colophon of them, different readings of same words in each of these manuscripts, as well as the text conflations, the most probable explanation is that the Princeton manuscript has been the basis of copying the other three manuscripts.
The content of The PG {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} The copying date of the manuscript, according to the colophon of the first treatise (Figure 1), is Monday, 10 Rabīʿ II 590 / 4 April 1194, and is taken from a holograph that was scribed by al-Khāzin on Thursday 21 Jamādī I 421 / 28 May 1030 in Ghazna (Figure 2).
{مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} According to the colophon of the ninth treatise, it was copied by Husayn Injū in Dhofar in 12 Dhu al-Qaʿda 913/14 March 1508, through one intermediary, from the holograph that has been scribed by al-Khāzin on Thursday 21 Jamādī I 421/28 May 1030, in Ghazna (Figure 3).
According to the note in the title page of Jawāhir al-Ṭīb (see Table 4), this treatise and its following content, were altogether two quires and five folios.
The Genealogy of the Manuscripts A similar note in the PG, TM and, LR referring to the content and order of the treatises, the information presented in the colophons, different variants in the TM and LR and finally, the same text conflation in the PG and CT, can be useful for recognizing the relationships between the manuscripts of Kitāb al-Ṭīb.