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Subject(s)

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

Summary note

Incomplete copy of the author's well-known thesaurus of medicine, containing Kitāb 2 (part), Kitāb 3 (part), Kitāb 4, and Kitāb 5 (part). Followed by extracts and recipes on fol. 242-247, and eight pages from another medical text on fol. 248-251.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon on fol. 172b.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on front flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 24-32 lines per page; written in naskh and nastaʻliq in black by different hands on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Same hand from fol. 97 to end. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Lacunae after fol. 72, 240. Marginal damp staining; paper repairs to first few and last few leaves. Incomplete at beginning.
• Origin: Kitāb 3 completed 1 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1046 [26 April 1637] by Luṭf Allāh Kaḥḥāl va Jarrāḥ Shīrāzī (fol. 172b). Kitāb 4 completed on 15 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1046 H [10 May 1637] (fol. 195b), evidently by the same scribe. Kitāb 5 completed in Iṣfahān on 9 Muḥarram 1047 H [3 June 1637] by the same scribe (fol. 241b).

Binding note

Full brown leather over pasted boards with cloth spine; covers are taken from different bindings. Top cover water damaged.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• Fol. 2a-72b: Kitāb 2
• fol. 73a-172b: Kitāb 3
• fol. 173b-195b: Kitāb 4
• fol. 196b-241b: Kitāb 5.

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Provenance

Smudged owner's stamps on fol. 172b.

References

Storey, C.A. Persian literature, II, 207

OCLC

795909563

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