Details

Subject(s)

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

Summary note

Materia medica, divided into 2 maqālah: 1) Simple medicines, fol. 1b-285a. 2) Compound medicines, fol. 285b-311a. Text is preceded and followed by medical recipes on fol. 1a, 311b.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon on fol. 285a and spine label.
• Dedicated to the princess Badīʻ al-Jamāl (fol. 2b), hence the title.
• Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on beige glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Damp staining around margins; a few marginal paper repairs. Text block has been trimmed. In good condition.
• Origin: Copy completed 6 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1079 H [7 May 1669] (fol. 311a).

Binding note

Full red leather with blind-tooled fillets.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Bookseller's stamp (Kitābkhānah-i Muṣṭafavī) on fol. 1b.

References

• Storey, C.A. Persian literature, II, 221
• Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, II, 469

Other format(s)

Published (Cawnpore, 1888).

OCLC

798583007

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