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Subject(s)

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

Related work(s)

• Jurjānī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan, 1042 or 1043-1136 or 1137. Z̲ākhirah-i Khvārazmshāhī. [Browse]
• جرجانى، اسماعىل بن حسن، 1042 or 1043-1136 or 1137. ذاخره خوارزمشاهى. [Browse]

Summary note

Abridgment of the author's thesaurus of medicine, Z̲ākhirah-i Khvārazmshāhī; introduction appears abridged. Medical recipe on fol. 1a.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Light staining and smudging; some pages foxed. Last leaf missing; missing text has been added to the back flyleaf.
• Origin: First part completed in 1235 H [1819 or 20] (fol. 37a); second part likely completed soon afterwards.
• Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمىن ... اما بعد اين مختصرىست مشتمل بر نکتها و فواىدى که بىشتر کتابهاى بزرگ از ان خالىست

Binding note

Half red leather with paper covers; white pastedowns and flyleaves.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Owner's note of Ḥusayn ibn Ghulām-Ḥusayn on fol. 1a.

References

Storey, C. A. Persian literature, II, 210

Other title(s)

• Khuff-i ʻAlāʼī
• خف علائي

OCLC

760195001

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