Details

Subject(s)

• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1201-1274—Tansūqʹnāmah-i Īlkhānī [Browse]
• Medicine, Arab [Browse]
• Precious stones—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mineralogy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of two texts, the first on medicine and the second on mineralogy.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger, according to Storey (II, 218).
• Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in casual naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 1-3 ragged on edges and some of the text has worn off; lower corner of fol. 124-126 torn away with some loss of text. Heavy damp staining but text still legible. Text block partially detached from binding.
• Origin: Text 1 copied in 911 H [1505 or 6] (fol. 117a); text 2 likely copied around the same time.
• Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله رب العالمىن ... اما بعد بدانکه اين مختصرىست که مولانا السعىد ملک الافاضل و الحکما نصىر الملة والدىن انشا فرموده است در معرفت جواهر و احجار و غراىب و موادر که از معادن و نبات ىافته مىشود

Binding note

Cloth over pasted boards; front cover detached.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-117a: [Ghiyāthīyah / Maḥmūd ibn Ilyās al-Shīrāzī]. Treatise on medicine in four maqālah; missing first leaf.
• 2. fol. 117b-127b: [Mukhtaṣar-i Tansūqʹnāmah-i Īlkhānī]. Abridgment of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's treatise on precious stones and minerals; the text consists of three bāb but is complete only to the middle of the first bāb.

Provenance

Owner's stamp on fol. 1a.

References

Storey, C.A. Persian literature, II, 218

Other title(s)

• Ghiyās̲īyah
• [Mukhtaṣar-i Tansūqʹnāmah-i Īlkhānī].
• [مختصر تنسوق‌نامه ايلخانى].

OCLC

778700847

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