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Subject(s)

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

Summary note

Collection of medical texts and extracts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in naskh in black on yellow glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Marginal text on fol. 99b-100b and text on fol. 101a-102b written by a different hand in shikastah. Some staining and smudging; in good condition.
• Origin: Text 2 completed in Rajab 1235 H [April-May 1820] (fol. 91b). Fol. 3b-100b written by the same hand: Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn [...] al-Kahakī (fol. 99b).
• Incipit (text 2): سپاسى افزون از خواهش بيماران بشفا
• Incipit (text 3): نسخه شربت بزورى بارد از مخترعات حکىم اشرف بجمة حميات حاره عنفه
• Incipit (text 4): نقل من خط المرحوم المبرور مؤلف هذه الرساله ... محرق النار زرده تخم مرغ بر کرباس آب ندىده

Binding note

Full brown leather over pasted boards with blind-stamped fillets; extensive notes on inner covers.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-3a: [Notes and recipes].
• 2. fol. 3b-91b: [Zād al-musāfirīn] / Muḥammad Mahdī ibn ʻAlī Naqī al-Sharīf. Treatise on the preservation of health and self-treatment while traveling; consists of two maṭlab. Composed in Iṣfahān and completed 10 Ṣafar 1141 H [15 September 1728] (fol. 91b).
• 3. fol. 92a-94a: Risālah-i mujarrabāt dar muʻālajah-i baʻz̤ī amrāz̤ kih aks̲ar-i ānrā asrār nivishtah and.
• 4. fol. 94a-99b: [Treatise on remedies].
• 5. fol. 100a-102b: [Prescriptions].
• 6. fol. 102b-103b: [Notes and recipes].

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References

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

Other title(s)

• Risālah-i mujarrabāt dar muʻālajah-i baʻz̤ī amrāz̤.
• رساله مجربات در معالجه بعضى امراض.

OCLC

796839795

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