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Subject(s)

• Shīʻah—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Rajab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Medicine, Persian—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of two medical texts and a short work on ritual.

Notes

• Ms. gatherings.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic and European papers. Rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 1-7 constitute a quire from a different ms. measuring 182 x 115 mm., with catchwords and Arabic prayers written in naskh and vocalized. Lacunae after fol. 9, 89, 94, 96, 102, 165. Extensive damp staining and some leaves ragged. Disbound.

Binding note

Loose in folder bearing a spine label reading "P. Souvant ... et M. Allain -- Fantomas 28."

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a: [Prayer, poem, notes].
• 2. fol. 1b-7b: ʻAmal-i iftitāḥ. Prayers and rituals for the 15th of Rajab.
• 3. fol. 8a-91a: [Persian medical text]. Part of an unidentified text on medicine consisting of unnumbered bāb.
• 4. fol. 91a-173b: [Yādgār / Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan Jurjānī]. Treatise on pharmacology and therapeutics in five bakhsh; this copy contains bakhsh 2 and parts of bakhsh 1 and 3; preface is omitted.

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Other title(s)

• ʻAmal-i iftitāḥ.
• عمل افتتاح.
• [Persian medical text].

OCLC

808142239

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