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Subject(s)

• Medicine, Persian—16th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Yūsufī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 16th century. Jāmiʻ al-favāʼid. [Browse]
• ىوسفى، ىوسف بن محمد، active 16th century. جامع الفوائد. [Browse]
• Yūsufī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, active 16th century. Maʼkūl va mashrūb. [Browse]
• ىوسفى، ىوسف بن محمد، active 16th century. مأکول و مشروب. [Browse]
• Sabzavārī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn, 15th century. Zubdat-i qavānīn al-ʻilāj. [Browse]
• سبزوارى، محمد بن علاء الدىن، 15th century. زبدت قوانىن العلاج. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of medical treatises.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text 1 on fol. 2a.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on beige glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes, particularly at beginning and end of ms. Change of hands on fol. 117b. Extensive damp staining; numerous paper repairs resulting in loss of text on some leaves. First and last folios are replacements. Incomplete at beginning and end.
• Origin: According to note by a later hand, this copy was completed 2 Ṣafar 1003 H [17 October 1594] (fol. 126a).
• Incipit (text 1, as extant): اين مرقوم که بجامع الفواىد موسومست مصروف کشت امىدوارى بضاىت بى علت بارى
• Incipit (text 2): زبانرا چو در اول اين کلام * ز حمد و تحيت رساندى بکام
• Incipit (text 4): الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان و جعله اشرف مواليد الازكان [!]

Binding note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets; brown paper pastedowns.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2a-34b: Jāmiʻ al-favāyid / [Yūsufī]. A collection of 289 rubāʻīyāt on medicine, each one accompanied by a commentary explaining the signs and treatment of the particular illness as well as the preparation of its appropriate medicaments; missing at least one leaf at the beginning. Completed in 910 or 917 H (Storey, II, 237).
• 2. fol. 34b-43a: Maʼkūl va mashrūb / Yūsufī. Short metrical tract on food and drink, completed in 906 H (Storey, II, 238).
• 3. fol. 43b-44a: [Medical recipes from Luqmān Ḥakīm and Ibn Sīnā].
• 4. fol. 44a-125b: [Zubdat-i qavānīn al-ʻilāj]. Manual of therapeutics, culled from standard works, in fourteen bāb (listed on fol. 44b-46b: the fourteenth is omitted); lacking a few leaves at the end. Completed in 871 H (Storey, II, 228).

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Provenance

Owner's note of Joseph Hashimi dated 16 December 1925 [note in Persian, name in Western script] (fol. 1a). Owner's stamps throughout ms.

References

Storey, C.A. Persian literature, II, 228, 237, 238

OCLC

798260006

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