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Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Use [Browse]
• Medicine, Persian [Browse]
• Divination—Iran [Browse]
• Persian poetry—19th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Niyārakī, Ḥayrān ibn Muḥammad ʻĪsá. Muʻālajāt. [Browse]
• نىارکى، حىران بن محمد عيسى. معالجات. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of medical texts, followed by a panegyric and a divinatory text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 78b.
• On front cover: Label reading "428" in Arabic script.
• Physical description: 16-20 lines per page, in 1-2 columns. Written in shikastah in black by different hands on machine-made paper. Catchwords. Fol. 44b-49b, 66b-68b, 73b-78a blank. Extensive damp-staining and smudging on fol. 1-8; text partially legible on those folios.
• Origin: Text 1 dated 1299 H [1881 or 2] in Sīrdān [village northwest of Qazvīn, Iran] by Aḥmad (fol. 44a). Text 2 dated 3 Rajab 1298 H [1 June 1881] (fol. 63a). Text 4 composed or copied on 1 Shaʻbān 1298 H [29 June 1881] (fol. 66a).
• Incipit (text 1): سپاس افزون از خواهش بيماران شفا
• Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله رب العالمىن ... اما بعد مقدمه در حفظ صحه است

Binding note

Full green leather with blind-tooled fillets; paper doublures.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-44a: Ḥifẓ al-ṣiḥḥah / Marḥūm Mīrzā Mahdī Ṭabīb. Treatise on the preservation of health and self-treatment while traveling; consists of two maṭlab.
• 2. fol. 50a-63b: Muʻālajāt-i yikī az aṭibbāʼ. Title from fol. 78b; consists of 30 faṣl. Written for one Mīrzā Asad Allāh Khān (see text 4).
• 3. fol. 63b-65a: [Poem on medicine].
• 4. fol. 65b-66a: Mīrzā Asad Allāh Khān fī al-madḥ al-muqarrab al-khāqān [sic] vazīr-i vazīr al-ʻulūm / Mullā Mīrzā mutakhalliṣ bi-Ḥayrān Ibn Mullā Muḥammad ʻĪsá Niyārakī. Poem in praise of Mīrzā Asad Allāh Khān; followed by a riddle.
• 5. fol. 69a-73a: Fālʹnāmah-i khayr va sharr. On divination using the Qurʼān.
• 6. fol. 78b: [List of contents].

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Provenance

Owner's seal on fol. 1a dated 1311 H [1893 or 4].

References

Storey, C. A. Persian literature, II, 272-3

Other title(s)

• Mīrzā Asad Allāh Khān fī al-madḥ.
• ميرزا اسد الله خان في المدح.
• Fālʹnāmah-i khayr va sharr.
• فال‌نامه خىر و شر.

OCLC

793232340

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