Details

Subject(s)

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

Summary note

Collection of two medical texts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• On front cover and wrapper: 80 Mojarrebat-e-Akbari (Tib).
• Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Lacuna after fol. 197. Damp staining and insect damage. In fair condition.
• Origin: Text 1, 2 Muḥarram 1231 H [4 December 1815] (fol. 265b).
• Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله الذى هدانا الى صراط المستقىم
• Incipit (text 2): ارهر بفتح اول و سکون راء مجمله و فتح ها وراء مجمله ثانى غله اىست مشهور در کتب ىونانى باسم شاخل مرقوم است

Binding note

Plain boards; no spine; brown paper wrapper.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-265b: Mujarrabāt-i Akbarī / Shāh Arzānī. Treatise on compound medicaments.
• 2. fol. 266a-323b: [Treatise on simple medicaments]. Incomplete at end.
• 3. fol. 327a-329b: [Fawāʼid].

Provenance

Owner's stamp of Sayyid Muḥammad Khān Bahādur, dated 1261 H [1845], on fol. 1b.

References

Storey, C.A. Persian literature, II, 269

Other title(s)

Treatise on simple medicaments.

OCLC

820353290

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