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Subject(s)

• Medicine, Persian—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on medicine in two parts (see description of contents in the preamble of the text, fol. 3a-4b), also known as "Kifāyah-i Manṣūrī". The text is dedicated to Sulṭān Mujāhid al-Dīn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn, i.e. Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Muẓẓafarī, ruler of Fars, 786-789/1384-1387, according to the Mashhad catalogue. Rieu suggests that the dedicatee is rather Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn of Kashmīr, 823-875/1420-1470. There is no evidence however that the laqab of the latter is Mujāhid al-Dīn (Storey, C. Persian Literature).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from inscription on the pastedown of the upper cover.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin laid paper ; frame-ruled. Stained with water ; insect damage.
• Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
• Origin: The copy is not dated. The paper and the script suggest the 19th cent.
• Incipit: يا فتاح رب يسر وتمم بالخير بسم ... شكر وسپاس مر خالقي را كه در خلقت انساني دقايق حكمت او بي پايانست
• Explicit: با عسل بر ذكر طلا كنند همين عمل كند والله اعلم بالصواب تمام شد

Binding note

Half bound in paper and purple cloth.

Provenance

Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 76
• Storey, C. Persian literature, II, 225

OCLC

235246781

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