Details

Subject(s)

• Medicine, Arab [Browse]
• Medicine—Formulae, receipts, prescriptions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Pharmacology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A comprehensive work on materia medica dedicated to the Safavid Shāh Sulaymān, r. 1666-1694, written to correct the errors of the Ikhtiyārāt-i Badīʻī and based largely on the Jāmiʻ-i Baghdādī. The first part contains five tashkhīṣāt while the second contains three qisms. According to Storey (III, 261), the third qism may never have been written. This copy contains tashkhīṣ 4 on poisons. The text is followed by prescriptions, talismans, and symbolic alphabets on fol. 64a-88a.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• On front cover: 86 Dasturatul Toffatul Momenin (Tib).
• Physical description: 14-18 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 64b, 68b-72b, 76b, 85a blank. Light staining; mild insect damage. In good condition.

Binding note

Brown paper wrapper which is pasted to the last leaf.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

On fol. 1b, stamp of Sayyid Muḥammad Khān Bahādur, dated 1261 H [1845].

References

Storey, C. A. Persian literature, III, 261

OCLC

829233570

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