Details

Subject(s)

• Medicine, Persian [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—Princeton—New Jersey [Browse]

Summary note

Text on medicine in two maṭlab. What appears to be the same text is also attributed to Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad Jaʻfar al-Bahbahānī (Āghā Buzurg, Dharīʻah (1936), XXI, 333 (5341)).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• On front cover: Label reading "46" in Arabic script.
• On spine: Horizontal label reading "Miftāḥ al-shifāʾ 191" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Headings in red; keywords overlined in red. Text framed in red and blue. Catchwords; a few marginal notes. First leaf partially detached; slight insect damage in inner margin towards the center of the text block. Otherwise in excellent condition.
• Origin: Copy completed 20 Shaʻbān 1242 H. [19 March 1827] (fol. 171a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمىن ... اما بعد چنىن گوىد گم گشته دىار سر گردانى و مبتلاى برنج هىچ ندانى الواثق بالله ابن محمد صائب محمد کاظم خوانسارى که غرض ازىن ذخىره آنست ...

Binding note

Contemporary limp black leather, heavily worn.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Owner's statement and stamp dated 1243 H. [1827 or 8] on fol. 171a.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XXI, 334 (5343)

OCLC

711318982

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