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Subject(s)

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

Contains

• Nāgawrī, Shihāb al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, active 14th century. Ṭibb-i Shihābī. [Browse]
• ناگورى، شهاب الدىن بن عبد الکرىم، active 14th century. طب شهابى. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of treatises, mostly in verse, on medicine.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text 3, leaf 88b.
• Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.
• Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on brown glazed, laid Arabic paper. Poems in two columns. Rubrication and catchwords; first and last pages of text 3 framed in red. First leaf is pasted to another sheet of paper. Extensive water damage, but text still legible; a few paper repairs.
• Origin: 22 Ṣafar 1105 H [23 October 1693], by Nūr Muḥammad khalaf-i Muḥammad Qāyim ʻurifa [bi-] Kanbū Hāshimī (leaf 88b).
• Incipit (text 3): نخستىن کنم نوک خامه روان * بتوحىد پروردگار جهان

Binding note

Modern full leather with blind-stamping and tooling.

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. leaves 1(bis)b-3b: Mujarrabāt-i Abī Z̲arr. Metrical treatise on medicaments attributed to Abū Dharr, a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad.
• 2. leaves 3b-7a: [Notes].
• 3. leaves 7b-88b: Ṭibb-i Shihābī / Shihāb al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Nāgawrī. A metrical compendium of medicine, also known as Shifāʼ al-maraz̤.
• 4. leaf 89a: Dar shinākhtan-i mazzah-i duhn. Short poem on popular medicine.
• 5. leaves 89b-90b: Fāyidah dar shinākhtan-i amrāz̤ az bawl-i marīz̤. Extract on diagnosing illness using urine.
• 6. leaves 91a-91b: [Notes and verses].

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Source acquisition

Purchase; Bouwman Books, 2013/07/15 (2014-4).

References

Storey, C.A. Persian literature, II, 224

Other title(s)

• Shifāʼ al-maraz̤.
• شفاء المرض.

OCLC

852797891

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