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Subject(s)

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of two medical texts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from spine and fore edge.
• Physical description: 18 lines per page; written in medium-large shikastah in black on heavy glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Change of hand on fol. 74b; smaller script with 22 lines per page. Some staining and light smudging; first folio has been repaired. Fol. 84-87 detached. In good condition.
• Origin: Rajab 1229 H [1813 or 14] (fol. 62a).
• Incipit (text 1): مفردات عظيم الخواص حمد بىغايت
• Incipit (text 2): الحرف الالف الک واله سنبل الطىب است اهورا خردل است

Binding note

Paper decorated with birds over thin pasteboard; leather spine.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-61b: Favāyid al-ḥikmah / Ḥājjī Sulaymān ibn Sulaymān Kurdlar [vocalization?] Qājār Īravānī. Treatise on medicine.
• 2. fol. 62a-87b: Maṭlab dar z̲ikr-i asāmī. Dictionary of herbs and medicines; incomplete at end.

References

• Storey, C. A. Persian literature, II, 316
• Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), XVI, 333 (no. 1542)

Other title(s)

• Fawāʾid al-ḥikmah
• فوائد الحكمة
• Maṭlab dar z̲ikr-i asāmī.
• مطلب در ذکر اسامى.

OCLC

806317395

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