Details

Subject(s)

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

Summary note

Treatise on medicine, preceded by a table of contents on fol. ib-xiib and followed by (or including) illustrations of laboratory equipment on fol. 151b-154a; text appears to be incomplete at end. Favāʾid on fol. ia (notes), xva-1a (recipes), 154b-155b (poems).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. ia in pencil by a later hand.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the 16th leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 10 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Topics noted in margins in red. Mild damp staining, particularly along bottom margin. Last fol. detached. In excellent condition.
• Incipit: سپاس بى قىاس خداوندىرا سزاست که طاعتش تصحىح ابدان است و عصىانش تمرض جان

Binding note

Limp red leather with blind-tooled crosshatch design; red cloth doublures.

Language note

Persian.

OCLC

819638631

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